Thursday, April 23. 2009

Updated Agenda for Ordnance Survey

Housing Minister Iain Wright made the announcement of a new strategy for the Ordnance Survey aimed at enhanced ease of use and licensing of geodata.

Some things will remain the same: the Ordnance Survey will continue to be self-funded and earn revenue by licensing its data. But there are five areas that will change, though details of how are still unclear:

- Promoting innovation - with an enhanced free service to allow experimentation with digital information and a clear path from this service to greater commercialisation;

- Reforming Ordnance Survey's licensing framework - so that it is much simpler to use Ordnance Survey data and services in other applications;

- Reducing costs over time - to ensure that Ordnance Survey continues to offer value-for-money;

- Supporting the sharing of information across the public sector - to enable better public policy and services;

-Creating an innovative trading entity - to explore further commercial opportunities around Ordnance Survey data and services.

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Here is a link to the strategy document:

http://strategy.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/


Tom Probert
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Pitney Bowes Business Insight
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#1 Tom Probert (Link) on 2009-04-28 05:33 (Reply)

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