> News today that much OS data is to be available free of charge
I'll wait and see. That sounds like a 'WIBNIF' to me, not an explicit statement of policy. There's also not enough detail of exactly what mapping they have an inkling to free up; what is 'Mid-scale digital mapping', for instance: 1:50k, 1:25k?
There are also competing factions within Government; one lot want OS data made freely available, others want it farmed out completely to private enterprise.
I know certain websites hitting their mapping tile quotas for OS 1:50k data are being 'encouraged' by the OS to go commercial, with a fee-paying system, rather than free, but tile-count limited as it currently is.
Posted: 17/11/2009 at 18:51