Apparently the government has moved control of Ordnance Survey, Met Office and Land Registry agencies over to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/19/public_data_corporation_bis_ordnance_survey_met_office_land_registry/ >From the article: "The OS office had previously operated under the Department for Communities and Local Government but has been shifted, along with the Met Office and Land Registry, as part of the Cabinet Office's plans to debut the so-called Public Data Corporation later this year. BIS, whose Secretary of State is Lib Dem MP Vince Cable, isn't exactly considered a champion of the open data movement, so the fact that it has taken control of Blighty's mapping agency will come as a surprise to some." -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/News-Ordnance-Survey-is-moving-to-the-Department-for-Business-Innovation-and-Skills-tp6598856p6598856.html Sent from the Great Britain mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb