Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey
It's interesting to see that there is a moderator stating there have been quite a few comments on here about the availability of administrative boundaries. I wonder if they will get enough people saying the same thing to change their plans. Shaun On 23 Apr 2009, at 17:13, Richard Fairhurst wrote: The Treasury published its review of Ordnance Survey yesterday. It's a real damp squib. As has been endlessly debated many times before, there's a lot of stuff OSM can survey itself - well, most stuff, really - but the real killer is things like boundary data, which is very difficult or indeed impossible to find on the ground. It's insane that the information on which constituency you live in, and hence who your MP is, is copyright Ordnance Survey, but that's where we are. So I'd encourage people to post comments to: http://strategy.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/goal-1-promote-innovation/ requesting that they release the data publicly with no restrictions, rather than just making it available via on their own OpenSpace API under their own terms (which seems to be the current plan). cheers Richard ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Shaun McDonald wrote: It's interesting to see that there is a moderator stating there have been quite a few comments on here about the availability of administrative boundaries. I wonder if they will get enough people saying the same thing to change their plans. The comment As the section above on An extended OS OpenSpace service indicates, official boundaries information will form part of this extended service. indicates to me that they either don't understand the copyright concerns being raised (and think that making available data (through OpenSpace), rather than making it copyright-free is what people are asking for) or they don't care. - Steve xmpp:st...@nexusuk.org sip:st...@nexusuk.org http://www.nexusuk.org/ Servatis a periculum, servatis a maleficum - Whisper, Evanescence ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
Re: [Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey (Steve Hill)
The comment As the section above on An extended OS OpenSpace service indicates, official boundaries information will form part of this extended service. indicates to me that they either don't understand the copyright concerns being raised (and think that making available data (through OpenSpace), rather than making it copyright-free is what people are asking for) or they don't care. - Steve xmpp:st...@nexusuk.org xmpp%3ast...@nexusuk.org sip:st...@nexusuk.org sip%3ast...@nexusuk.org http://www.nexusuk.org/ I think the former statement is probably true, they've been operating in a bubble for so long that they don't understand the copyright/licencing problems. Having to explain to someone *very* senior from the OS what OSM was last week, brought that idea home to me. Interestingly enough, they held a future planning/brainstorming session on friday. Its part of something they call Terra Future, apparently the main outcome was: Opening up the OS and integrating with and hosting OSM voted the best idea at Terra Future 2009. I have no idea how to process that one! -- Christopher Osborne www.cloudsourced.com #geomob - gmdlondon.ning.com www.twitter.com/osbornec www.linkedin.com/in/osbornec ___ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
