[talk-au] UK's Ordnance Survey to launch mapping app in Australia

[Warin]

On 23/2/21 12:19, Andrew Davidson wrote:
> https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/22/uk-ordnance-survey-launch-mapping-app-iustralia
>
> If you're not prepared to pay for the subscription it is a rather
> rubbish experience. You get a MapBox tile layer and laughably low-res
> aerial imagery.
>
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Ordnance Survey (OS) is after money. Like most government departments (UK + Oz) the government is after 'cost recovery' (or more) so you pay to get the data your taxes paid to collect.
I have no idea why OS thinks they can make money in Oz, maybe they have some data from Oz in their archives they think they  can sell...