Within the first few weeks of joining the Ordnance Survey 10 years or so ago I was shown a prototype map of the New Forest printed on silk, for reasons anyone who has read the “Innovators dilemma” will understand it was never turning into a product, and I still have the prototype in a drawer at home. …
I could be snarky and say better late than never, however the guidelines and new licenses today published by Ordnance Survey are a really positive step forward. As requested by many, myself included, the OS in their documents have tried to explain with examples what is now possible to create and then distribute in terms …
Well from reading a couple of press releases the signs look hopeful… Both the OS and the Dept. of Communities and Local Government have announced the signing of the new Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA), a sole source long term contract for providing mapping data to all of the public sector. I’m sure this has not gone down …
Not 300m from the site of one end of William Roy’s original baseline for the first Ordnance Survey of Great Britain, the modern Ordnance Survey yesterday held it’s annual business partner conference. Well for me it was a strange experience, sitting in the audience at an Ordnance Survey partner event (although Google is not a …
I have had a couple of questions about how the free OS data is licensed, here is the license which as you can see is basically a creative commons attribution license. This confirms there are no derived data issues. In fact this license makes OS Opendata more “open” than Openstreetmap. Written and submitted from the Where 2.0 …
I have really enjoyed listening to the BBC Radio 4 series “On the Map” a series on mapping presented by Mike Parker a self-confessed OS Map fan, and author of Map Addict a recommended read. Now Mike is very much a OS paper maps man, so in today’s programme I attempt to defend digital mapping …
Yesterday the Prime Minister announced that many of the data products produced by Ordnance Survey are too be made “open data” free for download and use by both indivuduals and commerical organsiations in the UK. Our data has been freed ? Well of course we will still have to see the details but this is …
While UK Local Authorities still struggle to provide public access to their geospatial data because of the bizarre OS rules on derived data, the residents of San Francisco have much rich data at their disposal. Following on from the federal data.gov portal launched earier this year, DataSF – DataSF is a local version providing access to …
Read more “DataSF : A example for UK Local Authorities to follow ?”
As Brady from O’Reilly pointed out early this week, the new iPhone 3.0 software and new iPhone 3G S have some major improvements that will further accelerate the development of exciting new location aware applications. The iPhone now joins the two Android powered HTC phones in having a high quality networked assisted GPS, a digital …
It was always going to happen, in fact there have been many rumours over the years of similar projects, but today the UKMap website has gone live announcing the first serious competition for Ordnance Survey large scale data. It is still early days for UKMap, which although in many ways similar to OS Mastermap is …
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