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2010

Doing things with Ordnance Survey OpenData. Jo Walsh’s guide to processing Ordnance Survey OpenData using PostgreSQL and PostGIS.

# 20th May 2010, 3:22 pm / mapping, open-data, ordnancesurvey, postgis, postgresql, recovered, jo-walsh

2009

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.

Stephen Timms, Minister for Digital Britain

# 17th November 2009, 6:10 pm / datagov, mapping, ordnancesurvey, stephentimms

Re-mapping the future for Ordnance Survey—making public data public. “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.”

# 17th November 2009, 6:09 pm / datagov, mapping, ordnancesurvey