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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Ordnance Survey maps free for use online by any organisation (UK)

From The Guardian: "The Free Our Data campaign has scored a major victory, with the announcement by the government that it intends to make Ordnance Survey maps free for use online by any organisation - including commercial ones - at resolutions more detailed than commercial 1:25,000 Landranger maps from April next year. The announcement of the opening of a consultation on the plan by Gordon Brown at Downing Street on Tuesday, as part of a seminar on making public data public - set in the wider context of public service reform, under the 'Smarter Government' umbrella - indicates that the ideas underpinning the campaign have now been taken on board at the highest levels of government"

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