Apparently, the UK Ordnance Survey has recently asserted such strict rules for re-using its data that even the London Metropolitan Police may now be in breach of their licence for publishing a crime map online.
And the winners of a UK government-sponsored competition to suggest new web-mapping applications, mostly based on Google Maps, would probably be in breach too.
I understand that no prizes were awarded for joined-up thinking.
The GeoMonkey is fortunate to live in the Land Of The Free Spatial Data – he’d probably starve on this side of the Atlantic…
James –
I think you need to go in with Jack on a line of plush GeoMonkey Dolls….. The ultimate in Swag at next years UC
F the geomonkey.
Next thing you know, you’ll have us swinging geo-thundersticks and rooting for the geo-angels and John “dissolve” Lackey.
We need a new, improved mascot…
Don’t fear the GeoMonkey.
He is only related to the Rally Monkey in last name only.
Check out the City of Austin GIS Day video –
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1iPe0LtCew
Sadly, it’s only GIS Day in the USA.
Here in dear old Blighty, things are rather different:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/20/ordnance-survey-google-maps
Apparently, the UK Ordnance Survey has recently asserted such strict rules for re-using its data that even the London Metropolitan Police may now be in breach of their licence for publishing a crime map online.
And the winners of a UK government-sponsored competition to suggest new web-mapping applications, mostly based on Google Maps, would probably be in breach too.
I understand that no prizes were awarded for joined-up thinking.
The GeoMonkey is fortunate to live in the Land Of The Free Spatial Data – he’d probably starve on this side of the Atlantic…
Run free, GeoMonkey, run free!