Ordnance Survey: OpenData

April 1, 2010

Big day for geographers in Great Britain today – Orndance Survey launches OpenData – basically some OS datasets but without any upfront charge or continued charge through licensing. A huge milestone and change of direction for OS, albeit forced upon, as demonstrated with the press coverage such as BBC and[...]

Free public data: UK Government reaching out ?

October 29, 2009

I think its more like reaching out and and also hitting you at the same time. I’m talking about plans and indeed actions around making public sector data freely available to not just web developers to build innovative and useful applications but anyone in general who wants to find out[...]