Steve Doerr - I don't think I understand your point?<div><br></div><div>As had already been pointed out the OS are <b>not tax funded</b>. They act like any other company within the UK making and selling a product. They have done so for 11 years.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The whole campaign has been driven ahead by the public's anger over having to "pay for the mapping my taxes produced" - when in fact no such situation exists.</div><div><br></div><div>But hey, leading on the ignorance is politics, right?<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 March 2010 19:56, Steve Doerr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:steve.doerr@blueyonder.co.uk">steve.doerr@blueyonder.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 20/03/2010 13:34, Mike Harris wrote:<br>
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> It might be worth bearing in mind that - thanks in part from the<br>
> pressures exerted by excellent projects such as OSM - the UK government<br>
> and the OS are in the process of considerably liberalising their<br>
> position on what may and what may not be done by taxpayers (who have<br>
> already funded both the OS and the Highway Authority!)<br>
<br>
</div>Fallacious argument. Virtually every adult in the UK is a taxpayer,<br>
whereas hardly anyone is an OSM mapper. When the OS sells its products<br>
to an individual taxpayer, it is a case of 'the many' selling to 'the<br>
few': everyone pays for the OS, but only a few use its products, so it's<br>
only fair that the few should compensate the many for the investment<br>
they've made.<br>
<br>
--<br>
<font color="#888888">Steve<br>
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