Simon Willison's Weblog: ordnancesurveyhttp://simonwillison.net/2010-05-20T15:22:00+00:00Simon WillisonDoing things with Ordnance Survey OpenData2010-05-20T15:22:00+00:002010-05-20T15:22:00+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2010/May/20/os/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://frot.org/t/talks/techmeetup.html">Doing things with Ordnance Survey OpenData</a></strong></p>
Jo Walsh’s guide to processing Ordnance Survey OpenData using PostgreSQL and PostGIS.
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Quoting Stephen Timms2009-11-17T18:10:38+00:002009-11-17T18:10:38+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/17/stephen/#atom-tag
<blockquote cite="http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/1385429"><p>About 80 per cent of public sector data mentions a place. Making Ordnance Survey data more freely available will encourage more effective exploitation of public data by businesses, individuals and community organisations.</p></blockquote>
<p class="cite">— <a href="http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/1385429">Stephen Timms</a>, Minister for Digital Britain</p>
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Re-mapping the future for Ordnance Survey - making public data public2009-11-17T18:09:29+00:002009-11-17T18:09:29+00:00https://simonwillison.net/2009/Nov/17/remapping/#atom-tag
<p><strong><a href="http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/1385429">Re-mapping the future for Ordnance Survey - making public data public</a></strong></p>
“The Prime Minister and Communities Secretary John Denham will today announce that the public will have more access to Ordnance Survey maps from next year, as part of a Government drive to open up data to improve transparency.”
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