Re: Ordnance Survey fights to retain restrictive use of mapping data
- From: Chris Malcolm <cam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 23 Nov 2006 20:57:18 GMT
Dominic Sexton <{d-sep03}@dscs.demon.co.uk> wrote:
In article <4560da30$0$11882$426a74cc@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tim <spam@xxxxxxxx>
writes
Marc Brett wrote:
A Europe-wide project to harmonise access to geographical data is at
risk due to
Britain's support for state-owned agencies Britain is threatening
to kill at birth a project to simplify access to data
crucial to the protection of Europe's land, air and water - unless it is
modified to protect the interests of state-owned mapping agencies.
In N. America, the USGS makes much of its data available for free. And
yet, US topographical maps are well below the standard of the Ordnance
Survey's publications.
And you conclude that the difference is due to the 'free' availability
of the data rather than the fact that the country is vastly bigger and
the population density much lower?
It may also be a factor that the OS started mapping the UK 100 years
before a smilar effort was started in the US. The precursor to the OS
were the military map makers of the British Empire, who made a pretty
good job of mapping India, despite its size. Chap called George
Everest was rather interested in the problems of locating distant
mountain peaks to high precision...
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