Comments on: Set the boundaries free http://www.edparsons.com/2008/11/set-the-boundaries-free/ The blog of Ed Parsons, Geographer. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:11:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jayne http://www.edparsons.com/2008/11/set-the-boundaries-free/#comment-1622 Jayne Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:24:12 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=637#comment-1622 Hi, I'd just like to say that I was at your lecture on Google Maps this evening in Swansea and it was really interesting. I'm only 18 but I love everything technology-related, and what you described - about the directions Google Maps might be taking in the future alongside what it does now - were really fascinating to me. However, I had a question to ask that I didn't get the chance this evening: Out of your personal preference, which do you prefer: the Apple iPhone or the Google G1? Thanks! Jayne Horswill Hi,

I’d just like to say that I was at your lecture on Google Maps this evening in Swansea and it was really interesting. I’m only 18 but I love everything technology-related, and what you described – about the directions Google Maps might be taking in the future alongside what it does now – were really fascinating to me.
However, I had a question to ask that I didn’t get the chance this evening: Out of your personal preference, which do you prefer: the Apple iPhone or the Google G1?

Thanks!

Jayne Horswill

]]> By: Gary F http://www.edparsons.com/2008/11/set-the-boundaries-free/#comment-1621 Gary F Fri, 28 Nov 2008 20:19:54 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=637#comment-1621 PAF is probably the only thing that makes money for the Royal Mail. If the government ordered them to make PAF available for free then the RM would demand a massive annual compensation package. Ain't gonna happen. (But it should! The RM licenses are a bad deal.) PAF is probably the only thing that makes money for the Royal Mail. If the government ordered them to make PAF available for free then the RM would demand a massive annual compensation package. Ain’t gonna happen. (But it should! The RM licenses are a bad deal.)

]]> By: Mark Painter http://www.edparsons.com/2008/11/set-the-boundaries-free/#comment-1620 Mark Painter Thu, 27 Nov 2008 19:09:30 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=637#comment-1620 OS making boundaries and point locations free to use would certainly open up what can be done by local authorities and other public sector organisations with map APIs. The other really useful dataset would be Royal Mail's postcode file (PAF). It's a real pain having to monitor how many times the PAF file is queried. Let's hope the Location Council mentioned in the Location Strategy will be able to sort a lot of this mess out. OS making boundaries and point locations free to use would certainly open up what can be done by local authorities and other public sector organisations with map APIs. The other really useful dataset would be Royal Mail’s postcode file (PAF). It’s a real pain having to monitor how many times the PAF file is queried.

Let’s hope the Location Council mentioned in the Location Strategy will be able to sort a lot of this mess out.

]]> By: Bill Chadwick http://www.edparsons.com/2008/11/set-the-boundaries-free/#comment-1619 Bill Chadwick Thu, 27 Nov 2008 18:00:54 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=637#comment-1619 The solutions I propose in my previous comment should avoid the proliferation of out of date copies of the UK admin. area data and enable the creation of public service web sites along the lines of FixMyStreet. The solutions I propose in my previous comment should avoid the proliferation of out of date copies of the UK admin. area data and enable the creation of public service web sites along the lines of FixMyStreet.

]]> By: Bill Chadwick http://www.edparsons.com/2008/11/set-the-boundaries-free/#comment-1618 Bill Chadwick Thu, 27 Nov 2008 17:57:33 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=637#comment-1618 Here is what I think would be an ideal solution for the UK admin boundary data. 1) OS to provide an admin. area geocoding web service (REST) . Other major UK geocoding providers to include UK admin area data in their services using fresh data from OS. 2) OS and other big web map tile providers to provide colour shaded semi-transparent WMS tile layers of admin areas for use with APIs from OpenLayers, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft ... (in both UKOS and Mercator projections). Here is what I think would be an ideal solution for the UK admin boundary data.

1) OS to provide an admin. area geocoding web service (REST) . Other major UK geocoding providers to include UK admin area data in their services using fresh data from OS.

2) OS and other big web map tile providers to provide colour shaded semi-transparent WMS tile layers of admin areas for use with APIs from OpenLayers, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft … (in both UKOS and Mercator projections).

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