Comments on: www.royal.gov.uk – one is impressed

By: tim warr

tim warr — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:28:53 +0000

Someone felt so strongly about this royal lack of OS mapping the wrote to the Telegraph

See the ‘Unpatriotic mapping’ letter here: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/4633018/The-Government-deserves-to-pay-an-electoral-price-for-creating-the-banking-crisis.html

By: Dutch Holland

Dutch Holland — Sat, 21 Feb 2009 14:35:07 +0000

To David , (3rd poster) – google maps is the obvious choice for the Royal Website, after OS does not provide maps out the UK so would be no use to HRH when travelling outside of the UK!

And in any event the underlying mapping still originates from OS all be it via a licensed partner so that should keep everybody happy, even the blo*dy Guardian!

By: Rob Stapleton

Rob Stapleton — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:32:35 +0000

I particularly enjoyed the mental image of Ed’s twitter tweet regarding a theoretical conversation between Vanessa and Her Majesty regarding derived data. One can only imagine the constitutional fun that would arise.

By: Mrs Rashmi Vidyasagar Shet

Mrs Rashmi Vidyasagar Shet — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:54:57 +0000

I am deeply impressed to know that the British Royalty has its own web-site. It happenned way back in 1996, during my first visit abroad, that too in London, I stood in front of the Buckingham palace, hoping hope against hope to have a glimpse of the royalty , the Queen Elizabeth to board down from her helicopter on their royal helipad. My wish to meet her in person reached fruition very soon, when she came all the way to Cochin to our International Pepper Exchange. Infact I got the honour to show arathi to her, a act done to show immense love, respect , adoration and devotion. I just cant forget, when she said beautifull , when I was doing all this for her. While leaving the Exchange, she turned back removed her gloves and shook hands with me. Her presence of mind is too good for her stature and position. I had the Arathi Thali with me, when she arrived , so she made it a point to show her love, when my hands were free.
It was very kind to send a autogragh photo of hers to us as token of her love to us. This photo of the Queen adores our tiny flat in Cochin . I look at it and feel happy everytime !

By: Charles A

Charles A — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 19:28:31 +0000

good point, maybe they’ll add a ‘Where’s Liz’ Wordpress Plugin or geo-track the corgis with googgle latitude…

By: Ron

Ron — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:04:42 +0000

That would have been handy for the IRA!

By: David

David — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:16:24 +0000

I think actually, that the government belongs to the queen, but that does seem a moot point.

Would have been better though if the Queen had used her own mapping? (hint: Ordnance Survey)

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:05:06 +0000

Indeed I am… although I am not an expert in the UK constitution, i just go by the domain name .gov.uk !

By: Chris Brind

Chris Brind — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:54:10 +0000

What’s good enough for the Royal Family should be good enough for other parts of UK government don’t you think ?

I agree with your sentiment, but you seem to be implying the royal family is government.