An article in today's online Guardian caught our eye. It refers to the superb travel time maps which have been created by an organisation called MySociety, and suggests that Ordnance Survey's charges for data use are prohibitively high for similar maps to be made available online by a charity. Ordnance Survey are subject to the 2005 Re-use of Public Sector Information Regulations, which place restrictions on the terms of use and charges which can be applied to "content" generated by various public sector bodies. The Regulations include a formal complaints procedure, and it will be interesting to see over time how the Regulations impact on the terms and costs of content provided by organisations such as the OS.
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Personally I feel that the OS is severely impeding growth in the mapping sector by the huge upfront charges that they insist on, hence the reason for http://www.openstreetmap.org/ remapping the UK and the growth of maps based on pre 1950 OS sheets that are out of copyright.
It seems unfair that we, the taxpayer, paid to get the original data and now they are charging for us to use it!
Posted by: Geoff | June 24, 2006 at 12:40 AM