[Talk-GB] Ordnance Survey

[Richard Fairhurst]

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