Comments on: DD Day for Ordnance Survey – April 22nd 2009 http://www.cloudsourced.com/2009/04/21/dd-day-for-ordnance-survey-april-22nd-2009/ #Geomob - Anything geo or mobile Fri, 09 Jul 2010 06:46:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: steven feldman http://www.cloudsourced.com/2009/04/21/dd-day-for-ordnance-survey-april-22nd-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-28 steven feldman Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:15:30 +0000 http://www.cloudsourced.com/?p=165#comment-28 Strong stuff I think you have to recognise that the restrictive IP conditions are inextricably tied up with the current business model.If the model changes so will the restrictions Incidentally if the govt went for your option b and the data became freely available without heavy restrictions it would be interesting to see how the OS would impact on OSM in the UK. Don't expect earth shattering announcements tomorrow. Look for signs of change and then watch carefully for the actions that follow. Interesting times ahead for us geopeeps Strong stuff

I think you have to recognise that the restrictive IP conditions are inextricably tied up with the current business model.If the model changes so will the restrictions

Incidentally if the govt went for your option b and the data became freely available without heavy restrictions it would be interesting to see how the OS would impact on OSM in the UK.

Don’t expect earth shattering announcements tomorrow. Look for signs of change and then watch carefully for the actions that follow.

Interesting times ahead for us geopeeps

]]> By: James Cutler http://www.cloudsourced.com/2009/04/21/dd-day-for-ordnance-survey-april-22nd-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-27 James Cutler Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:43:06 +0000 http://www.cloudsourced.com/?p=165#comment-27 Chris Agree that a direction of travel is likely to be set as a consequence of Grimstone's OEP recommendations (he was after all Thatcher's privatisation guru) but it is unlikely to satisfy everyone! In other times (b) might hold sway but suspect that (c) is more likely. The public sector does licence data from Ordnance Survey via the various Collective Purchase Agreements, subsidising some 45% or so of OS, the rest comes from the private sector, users that wouldn't be paying if it didn't feel it needed to and couldn't turn a profit (and pay taxes etc) as a result. The direction of travel will undoubtedly determine where the derived data debate goes next but if option (c) then a more (sic) collaborative approach to its resolution needs to be adopted than is currently the case. James Chris
Agree that a direction of travel is likely to be set as a consequence of Grimstone’s OEP recommendations (he was after all Thatcher’s privatisation guru) but it is unlikely to satisfy everyone! In other times (b) might hold sway but suspect that (c) is more likely.

The public sector does licence data from Ordnance Survey via the various Collective Purchase Agreements, subsidising some 45% or so of OS, the rest comes from the private sector, users that wouldn’t be paying if it didn’t feel it needed to and couldn’t turn a profit (and pay taxes etc) as a result.

The direction of travel will undoubtedly determine where the derived data debate goes next but if option (c) then a more (sic) collaborative approach to its resolution needs to be adopted than is currently the case.

James

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