The Carling Academy still exists and is now known as the O2 Academy.
Birmingham's inner ring road is no longer designated as such and traffic is encouraged to use the less central (formerly "middle") ring road; those parts that do remain are now lower-volume local roads or bus-only.
Ah, it’s the Free Our Data campaign, rising from its slumber! We did have some success in 2010 when OS released a certain amount of data for free at the instruction of the Brown government - before that it had everything behind a paywall guarded by lawyers. So it’s better now but as you point out, very far from ideal.
The “trading fund” model is the problem - Land Registry and OS and UKHO and others are obliged to wash their financial faces so that government doesn’t have to put mo eg in - but this of course ignores, as with GPS, the potential for new or faster uses of the data currently guarded by three-headed lawyers.
Perhaps it needs a position paper sent to a minister, and multiple opposition shadows, pointing out how this should be reorganised and how the benefits would accrue. The government is happy to shovel £1bn down the hole of quantum co
Pouring, which it isn’t going to see back for a long time. Why not some smaller amounts so we can get to do unpredictable but financially beneficial things with the combination of all that data? What are they worried about - that people will find out where the potholes are and repair them more quickly without having to license a dataset? That self-driving cars will have better data for more roads?
Unfortunately we need a minister with the vision of Tom Watson, who pushed change through when he was in Cabinet Office (and his Tory successor Francis Maude to be fair) rather than the dim bulbs we seem to have just now.
"What are they worried about - that people will find out where the potholes are and repair them more quickly without having to license a dataset?"
People can already do that using the excellent FixMyStreet app or website - https://www.fixmystreet.com/ - which takes the user's GPS location and plots it on a map, then assists them in generating an email report to the relevant local authority.
It’s a copyright issue with any derivative product requiring a license to protect OS’ data from exploitation or unfair competition which if removed would create the pressure for direct government funding if OS’ current chargeable system gets undercut by competitors reselling their data. Someone has to pay to map the country either the end user or the state.
Yes, but what the local authorities then do is the question. They have to assign an exact location on a map for their fixing teams to go to, coordinate with Highways (might be a different level of council eg county v district) about any road closure/diversion, and confirm it’s done. The mapping and Highways stuff is siloed because of maps licensing.
FMS has been going for ages but potholes are the problem that keeps coming back. Very much the roads equivalent of cutting the grass.
It’s an Aussie comedy based at the (fake) Nation Building Authority which builds the major infrastructure in Australia. It’s comedy for YIMBYs and I think all the readers here would enjoy it
"Huge mess hill" seems like a perfect description for a hill that appears to bend space, shape and time with its impossible contours and grid lines that would give Escher a headache 😳
The Carling Academy still exists and is now known as the O2 Academy.
Birmingham's inner ring road is no longer designated as such and traffic is encouraged to use the less central (formerly "middle") ring road; those parts that do remain are now lower-volume local roads or bus-only.
Ah, it’s the Free Our Data campaign, rising from its slumber! We did have some success in 2010 when OS released a certain amount of data for free at the instruction of the Brown government - before that it had everything behind a paywall guarded by lawyers. So it’s better now but as you point out, very far from ideal.
The “trading fund” model is the problem - Land Registry and OS and UKHO and others are obliged to wash their financial faces so that government doesn’t have to put mo eg in - but this of course ignores, as with GPS, the potential for new or faster uses of the data currently guarded by three-headed lawyers.
Perhaps it needs a position paper sent to a minister, and multiple opposition shadows, pointing out how this should be reorganised and how the benefits would accrue. The government is happy to shovel £1bn down the hole of quantum co
Pouring, which it isn’t going to see back for a long time. Why not some smaller amounts so we can get to do unpredictable but financially beneficial things with the combination of all that data? What are they worried about - that people will find out where the potholes are and repair them more quickly without having to license a dataset? That self-driving cars will have better data for more roads?
Unfortunately we need a minister with the vision of Tom Watson, who pushed change through when he was in Cabinet Office (and his Tory successor Francis Maude to be fair) rather than the dim bulbs we seem to have just now.
"What are they worried about - that people will find out where the potholes are and repair them more quickly without having to license a dataset?"
People can already do that using the excellent FixMyStreet app or website - https://www.fixmystreet.com/ - which takes the user's GPS location and plots it on a map, then assists them in generating an email report to the relevant local authority.
It’s a copyright issue with any derivative product requiring a license to protect OS’ data from exploitation or unfair competition which if removed would create the pressure for direct government funding if OS’ current chargeable system gets undercut by competitors reselling their data. Someone has to pay to map the country either the end user or the state.
Yes, but what the local authorities then do is the question. They have to assign an exact location on a map for their fixing teams to go to, coordinate with Highways (might be a different level of council eg county v district) about any road closure/diversion, and confirm it’s done. The mapping and Highways stuff is siloed because of maps licensing.
FMS has been going for ages but potholes are the problem that keeps coming back. Very much the roads equivalent of cutting the grass.
Utopia is on Netflix
It’s an Aussie comedy based at the (fake) Nation Building Authority which builds the major infrastructure in Australia. It’s comedy for YIMBYs and I think all the readers here would enjoy it
Mastermap is slowly being phased out…..
"Huge mess hill" seems like a perfect description for a hill that appears to bend space, shape and time with its impossible contours and grid lines that would give Escher a headache 😳