Thanks to Graham Hyde for pointing to this letter from Sir Michael Scholar, Chair of the UK Statistics Authority to John Healey, Minister for housing and a selection of other ministers. In a rebuttal of frequent assertions by both NLPG and OS that they already offer comprehensive national coverage he says The main reason behind the decision that ONS should invest a substantial budget in the development of a special one-off register of addresses was […]
Monthly Archives: August 2009
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Andrew Turner pointed to this announcement by USAF Academy of a sole sourcing opt out of competitive tender for GI software here This bit got my attention. “Software standardization between the 10th CES, DFEG, and the entire USAFA is extremely critical. Compatibility allows GIS data sharing between all agencies on the USAFA will continue to support GIS development in the future. Award of this contract to another contractor would jeopardize the performance of our mission […]
Sometimes the web can take you on a strange journey. This letter from Mark Serwotka, the General Secretary of the PCS Union about creeping privatisation happened to mention OS as a potential candidate for a governemnt sell off along with Land Registry, Met Office and Hydrographic Office. Nothing new there really as the possibility has been touted in the FT and elsewhere. The letter was in response to an article entitled “We are outsourcing the […]
A couple of tweets from GeoWeb yesterday got me thinking. Apparently Michael Jones of Google was somewhat contradictory saying that what you put into Google you should be able to get out and then confirming that you could not get the content out of MapMaker. Does that matter? The data is free to view and to use (if you don’t need to access the vectors) through the Google Maps API or the Maps site. TA […]