GIScussions: GI is worthless?
Monthly Archives: January 2007
5 posts
A rhetorical title. This week I have been commenting a bit on the Free Our Data web site about an article concerning the cost of OS data and GI software for a social housing provider, you can read the original article or perhaps the discussion on FOD is better. The author says In the field I work in housing (asset management) the use of maps would be particularly beneficial. … Being able to link all […]
A few months ago the AGI Addressing SIG visited both Intelligent Addressing and Ordnance Survey to discuss the industry’s concerns regarding the failure of these two organisations to reach an agreement on a single source of addressing truth (the National Spatial Addressing Infrastructure). You can find their report here OS who have been taking a bit of a bashing recently have now published a detailed response which can be found here – they make some […]
Here is an interesting article on European data policies and Inspire that I stumbled upon at Directions. Worth noting that this was written several months before the Guardian campaign kicked off. Of particular interest are the comments from Roger Longhorn which punch a bit oif a hole in the everything is dandy in the US myth: I think it is important to remember that, in the USA, free (no cost) access to geodata applies only […]
Well here we are at the start of the new year and I am wondering what 2007 will hold for the OS? The CUPI report seems to have given OS a bit of a slamming although some will say it was not critical enough and others will shrug and say it wasn’t really that bad. My view is that the trading fund model is probably incompatible with the principles behind Information Fair Trading – have […]