Ordnance Survey maps to be made free for use online
UK government announces 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.
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the world wide web, who was recruited by the prime minister in June to help open up government data, said that the revised terms for use of OS maps would also remove the "derived data" problem, under which OS claims full copyright on any intellectual property that is created with reference to an OS map.
Berners-Lee said that within government there had been repeated complaints about the derived data issue stifling the freeing up of data. "As we went around [government departments] to ask them about data sets we got consistent pressure from them?…?people would say, 'I've got this great data set but I can't put it up because the OS won't allow me to.' People were coming back to me about it again and again."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/19/ordnance-survey-maps-free-online
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19th November 2009ce
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