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It’s been a while since my last blog post, and after a request from Twitter, I thought it might be time to dust off Wordpress and do a quick blog post. Since we last spoke, UK Postcodes (the postcodes webservice I blogged about a few blog posts back) has been plodding along nicely and, as [...]

Some people would say we’re mad, but last Saturday, on the hottest day of the year so far, a group of people eschewed barbecues and beer in the garden for a whole day spent working with mapping data and other bits of open data to help people understand the benefits of open data at Mapitude, [...]

Well, it’s finally happened, Ordnance Survey have gone from being the bad guy of the internet, a big, bumbling behemoth, squishing innovation wherever it goes, to being the darling of the internet, throwing out free data wherever it goes (well, sort of).
As well as lots of mapping data being released, it also release Codepoint Open, [...]

If you have an interest in open data, there’s a pretty good chance that you’ve heard today’s announcement that the public will have more access to Ordnance Survey data. Details are a bit sketchy at the moment, but data set to be released includes boundary data, postcodes, and mid-scale mapping.
Consultation will start soon on exactly [...]

I’ve been playing around with the Ordnance Survey linked data and, while it’s not perfect, it’s certainly a step in the right direction.
It’s got me thinking though – in an ideal world, where an ‘information-wants-to-be-free’-esque hippy such as myself could get all the data I wanted, what cool stuff could be added on to [...]