United Kingdom Ordnance Survey for the Masses: UK map data to be free at last : Consequences for the Internet

As written by Martin Bryant:

"The UK government has announced that it is to explore ways of making huge amounts of public data freely available for the first time....

Until now, the official Ordnance Survey maps of the entire UK have been only available to people willing to pay...."

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UK map data free at last – what it means for the web