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Free Our Data Campaing UK + New Guardian Article

Posted by Tracey P. Lauriault-2 on Mar 23, 2006; 12:12pm
URL: http://civicaccess.416.s1.nabble.com/Free-Our-Data-Campaing-UK-New-Guardian-Article-tp368.html

Free our data
Ordnance Survey challenged to open up

The inventor of the world wide web wants access to Ordnance Survey data - and the freedom to manipulate it as he sees fit
http://society.guardian.co.uk/e-public/story/0,,1737011,00.html
SA Mathieson and Michael Cross
Thursday March 23, 2006
The Guardian

Another excellent article on the topic of freeing ordinance survey data.  The article refers to Berners-Lee speech given at Oxford last week, where he argued that to develop the semantic web one needs data!  The article can be found here:

See the new Free our Data Campaing for the UK:
Free Our Data: Make taxpayers' data available to them
http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/

Free Our Data: the blog
A Guardian Technology campaign for free public access to data about the UK and its citizens
http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/index.php