Systeme D

January 13, 2010

Ordnance Survey consultation

I’ve finally finished my response to the consultation on Ordnance Survey data. It’s here (five-page PDF, 64k).

The tl;dr* version:

Generally good. Don’t release 1:25k and 1:50k rasters, that’s just gratuitous and we don’t need them. Provide an aerial photography API for rights-free tracing. Use PD or a database rights-aware licence, not CC-BY. kthxbye

* link almost certainly Not Suitable For Work, or indeed anywhere else


November 17, 2008

Unexpected pub conversations

What do you want to be when you grow up?

Anna: high-powered barrister
Richard: Twm Morys