Posts Tagged ‘OpenStreetMap’

Lobbying to promote the closed, the restricted and the inflexible

Friday, August 29th, 2008

The 20th Century view of our nation’s public data is not going quietly, and it’s financing its battle with our money:

So here we have a state body using *our* money to pay for lobbyists to advise on how to stop oiks like *us* from gaining free access to the information *we* largely foot the bill for.

Ordnance Survey: Right Out of Order

Wonderful, innit?

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It’s not only landmarks and historical sites…

Friday, August 29th, 2008

It’s not only landmarks and historical sites that the online mapping services are missing. In some cases, it’s entire areas:

Multimap.co.uk doesn’t know that there’s a Kennington in London.

Multimap.co.uk doesn’t know that there’s a Vauxhall in London either.

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