Hi, Thats great news! Thanks for sharing
FYI, one of the things im working on with the folks at koordinates.com is to upload and provide a direct link to the geo-data available from Ordnance Survay to koordinates.com, so then all of the data will be available at a central source, and in the same standard .shp file format. Koordinates.com also has API access, so the hopes is that their will be a way to directly extract data from koordinates.com to be usable for the qgis work. I already and downloaded a few sample files from it, so the linkage should not be that hard to make. cheers, sam On 3/3/11, Andrew Chapman <andrew.chap...@donkagen.co.uk> wrote: > Ordnance Survey is introducing their "Public Sector Mapping Agreement for > England and Wales" as of 1 April 2011. This is a major change to their > licensing and will provide free access to OS MasterMap and other layers to > all public bodies, layers of local government (including the approximately > 10,000 parish councils)... and also permit free sub-licensing to > subcontractors. Directly and, indirectly, this could dramatically increase > the number of potential users of QGIS. Details can be found at > www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/business/sectors/government/publicpsmafaq > s.html. > I'm a member of a parish council, but am working with the county council > (plus Environment Agency, Highways Agency, etc) in different areas looking > at local community sourcing of GIS data, but especially relating to > flooding. > To encourage take-up for both GIS and QGIS, it may help if there were > tutorials to take a new user of GIS through the steps to download data from > Ordnance Survey (probably only in GZ format for the topology layers). > To date I've been getting data as shapefiles - when I last tried (an earlier > version) QGIS wouldn't load .gz and the support for .gml may have been > incomplete. > Is anyone else using Ordnance Survey .gz files directly? > Would the best advice for users new to GIS be to convert to shapefiles or > use a database (something I've not yet managed to do)? > Are there any UK users involved with town or parish councils? > > Andrew > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-user mailing list > Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user > -- --- Across Canada Trails - Beyond 2017 - The National Trails Network Victoria, BC Canada Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blog: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: 'Sam Vekemans' Member, CommonMap Inc. http://commonmap.org/ IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net #CommonMap Also find us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list Qgis-user@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
