UK Ordnance Survey (GB) launches second phase of new pricing and licensing model

[Tracey P. Lauriault]

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  1. Ordnance Survey (GB) launches second phase of new pricing and
     licensing model (Roger Longhorn)


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FYI list - in relation to our 2011 project to look at licensing and
pricing models, globally.


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*_Ordnance Survey launches second phase of new pricing and licensing
model_*<http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/media/news/2011/march/pricing.html>

*This week, Ordnance Survey held an event at its new head office to
reveal the second phase of its new pricing and licensing model to
current Licensed Partners, which aims to enable greater access to its
products and geographic datasets under a simplified structure.*

The second phase saw the launch of two new contracts, available for use
from 1 April 2011, to build upon the practice of making fewer, broader
licences covering commercial activities. The new contracts are the
Printed Products contract and the View, Tracking and Scheduling contract.

Speaking at the launch, Stefan Wells, Licensed Partner Account Manager
for Ordnance Survey, explained: ?The new Printed Products contract has
been created from three existing contracts. The new terms ensure our
Partners can produce paper or electronic mapping from a range of our
data products. There are no minimum or maximum print runs and no size
restrictions on the printed products. We hope this will make it easier
for our Partners to work with our products.?

The details of the new Viewing, Tracking and Scheduling contract were
launched by Mark Salter, Head of Sales for Licensed Partners at Ordnance
Survey. Speaking at the event in the national mapping agency?s new
business centre, Mark said, ?We created this contract by amalgamating
the terms of seven existing contracts. It covers the Partners? hosted
service or a software package where the primary purpose is tracking or
scheduling.?

The two new contracts are in addition tothe Consumer Applications and
Websites contract, the Distribution contract and the Navigation contract
which were, together with the Framework, made available for use from 18
November 2010. The five new contracts have been substantially revised to
be shorter and written in clearer English.

As well as creating fewer, broader licences covering commercial
activities, among the changes presented last year was the introduction
of terms to allow partner businesses to licence and resell almost all
Ordnance Survey products, including its flagship dataset, OS MasterMap
Topography Layer. Together with greater flexibility in onward licensing,
this gives customers greater choice of where they source their Ordnance
Survey data.

The new pricing and licensing model also provides greater clarity around
the use of ?derived data? and the inclusion of new ?Free to Use Data?
terms will alleviate many of those issues, allowing for greater sharing
of information that has been inferred from existing features.

Peter ter Haar, Ordnance Survey?s Director of Products, said, ?We?ve
received excellent feedback from our Partner community since the launch
of the new pricing and licensing model last year. Phase two has enabled
us to build on that success and make our data more accessible. Through
opening up much of our product portfolio for partner distribution, we
are seeing new opportunities open up for Ordnance Survey data.?

The event supports and builds upon the work that has been happening
since Ordnance Survey launched its Business Strategy in April 2009.
Following the launch there has been a number of developments that have
influenced and shaped pricing and licensing; most notably the launch of
the free mapping service OS OpenData, on 1 April 2010, and the signing
of the Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA) for England and Wales
which also launches on 1 April 2011.

For more information on Ordnance Survey?s new pricing and licensing
model visithttp://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/business/licences/

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Kind regards

Roger Longhorn
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