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The story of open data in the UK has been fairly uplifting in recent years, as more and more public datasets are released under liberal ...

The man - er, knight - himself comments on the opening up of the Ordnance Survey, and concludes with these thoughts: Data is beginning to ...

This is better than I was expecting: Speaking at a seminar on Smarter Government in Downing Street later today, attended by Sir Tim Berners...

After the results of the Show Us A Better Way competition - the X-Factor for web services (as I think I dubbed it) - now here’s the letdown....

I always thought that the Ordnance Survey had a rather, er, Olympian view of things that was more suited to the top-down twentieth century t...

Ordnance Survey is trying to get Web 2.0 hip: explore is a new beta application from Ordnance Survey, allowing you to create and share your...

Talking of the price we pay for idiotically closed geographical data : The United States has benefitted in many ways from having public dat...

This really makes my blood boil. After a year of negotiations, academic geographers have conceded defeat in their attempt to find a way to ...

Imagine : flying at rooftop height up the Thames. You dive under Tower Bridge, then twist between the Gherkin and Tower 42 skyscrapers. As t...

Well, now, here's some progress : The OFT's market study into the commercial use of public information has found that more competiti...

I've written about INSPIRE before, and now this depressing piece in The Guardian suggests that the twits in the UK Government are goi...