technology.guardian.co.uk — The Guardian has started a campaign to get the UK Government to stop charging for tax payer funded data; in the USA, it's free - allowing the creation of great tools like Google Maps. Get behind it!
Mar 9, 2006 View in Crawl 4
neaveMar 9, 2006
Here here, I wholeheartedly agree.
brownb2Mar 10, 2006
Not only is Geo data held, but data such as nutritional information of all of the products available in the UK, data freely available on food packaging. This free data is then collected with our tax money. I sent an email to the Crown Press asking why the data is not freely available as a download online despite being collected using our taxes. She told me that it was freely available, in the library. So I stated that I needed it in an electronic form and would scan the data - oh no she said, that wasn't allowed, its COPYRIGHT Crown Print. I told her politely she could stuff policy and I would be relying on the US' freely available nutritional data instead - the UK Government vis-a-vis Crown is a thief IMHO - where is the public interest in reselling us our data?DIGG++++++
noseemeMar 10, 2006
Seems very unfair.
b0janglesMar 10, 2006
Stil sounds very procurious. The amount of hard work that went into cataloging most of the world shouldn't be forgotten. OS have saved thousands of lives, for that we should be gratefull and buy their lovely maps.Yet another one of Guardian-bitch and we might get some readers articles.
neaveMar 17, 2006
New website dedicated to freeing our data:<a class="user" href="http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/">http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/</a>