The Carto lists and twitteres are going nuts - UK Ordinance Survey share its data!

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

This is really great!  UK Free the Data Blog by the UK Guardian was instrumental in keeping up the pressure.  Ordinance Survey was the most restrictive cost recovery shop in the world.  Canada once thought it was between the US and UK model!  This is great news and demonstrates the power of good investigative journalism.  Maybe one day in Canada they will give away our census data!

Original Press Release - http://www.communities.gov.uk/news/corporate/1385429

Ordnance Survey maps to go free online

PM to open access to 2,000 data sets in victory for Guardian's Free Our Data campaign - http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/17/ordnance-survey-maps-online

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Tracey P. Lauriault
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