ORG Issue: Open Geodata

Geodata is geographic or spatial information - anything from postcodes to maps to aerial views. Accurate geodata is often very expensive to produce, but its value to the public is high. Because of this, debates about geodata, like the current debate about whether the Ordnance Survey should sell its data at a profit, tend to centre around public access. Open geodata is free of copyright restrictions and is accessible to anyone at minimal or no cost.

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Public sector information: officially better when shared

Posted by Michael Holloway on March 14th, 2008 in categories Open Geodata 1 Comment »

Following up on the stunning Power of Information Review (PoIR), comes the snappily-titled Models of Public Sector Information Provision via Trading Funds. This new research, published yesterday, looks at the way public sector bodies charge for commercial and non-commercial reuse of non-personal public sector information. It was commissioned after PoIR recommendations made by Messrs Steinberg [...]

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