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Andy B
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|  Posted 27-10-2007 at 16:56
The first fruits of the Free Our Data campaign have begun to appear, with the announcement this week by the Office of Public Sector Information (OPSI) that it has launched a web forum through which the public may "request the release of government data that may have economic value".
The creation of the web channel was primarily driven by the recommendation in Tom Steinberg's and Ed Mayo's Power of Information Review, published earlier this year by the Cabinet Office. But Guardian Technology was invited by Michael Wills, the minister in charge of OPSI, to coordinate on the creation and promotion of the channel as a direct consequence of the lobbying for the Free Our Data campaign (The minister will hear you now, July 26).
The channel will not necessarily point to free data - but might help as a halfway house, in creating a repository of datasets that are known to be available from government departments. At present, there is no direct way of knowing what data any department might have available that could be reused commercially.
The Free Our Data campaign argues that non-personal data held in this way by the government should be available for free, for unlimited commercial reuse - a move that would energise the economy and generate taxes that would make up for any income "lost" from selling the data.
Meanwhile, last week Ordnance Survey made a tentative move into an area already full of commercial possibility, as it unveiled a beta version of a new mapping portal, Explore. The organisation is at pains to point out that the portal is not an implementation of the OpenSpace system, previewed in November last year, to let developers create mashups of data with maps.
Instead, Explore simply lets people create walks including waypoints which are then stored on the OS's servers, and allow viewing at resolutions down to 1:50,000 - only as good as the Landranger map series, rather than the 1:25,000 Explorer series often used by walkers.
More at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/sep/20/guardianweeklytechnologysection.freeourdata
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Andy B
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|  Posted 27-10-2007 at 16:58
Power of Information, Re-use request service forum is here:
http://www.opsi.gov.uk/forums/forums/forum.asp?forumid=8&page=0&select=689
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Andy B
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| Posted 27-10-2007 at 17:02
The OS Explore service is here:
http://explore.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/
Why not load up your favourite Megalithic Walks and link to them from our pages
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