Ordnance Survey maps to be free???
The Guardian reports:
The government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April…..Gordon Brown announced the change at a joint event in London today…In the new year Brown intends to publish 2,000 sets of data…
Is this too good to be true??? We will have to wait until April to see what this really means.
Perhaps this could be a renaissance for Ordnance Survey and massively increase it relevance to the economy and society? It will be nice to be looking at more of the UK’s home-grown cartography on the web (rather than the bland cartography from Google and Microsoft).
A video of the announcement is here.
So what do you think Tim – a good idea?
Hi ‘Other’,
Yes a good idea. It is just a pity it was not done 2-3 years ago. Great that it includes CodePoint for free, but would have been awesome to make Landranger free too…
And the view on the ‘inside’ is?