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. […]
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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 […]
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The OS free data licence
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 […]