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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Publicly-funded lobbying against OA for publicly-funded geodata

The UK Ordnance Survey, or government mapping agency, is using public funds to pay a lobbying firm to push back against mounting public pressure to make its publicly-funded data OA. 

For details, see two articles by Michael Cross in The Guardian (August 21 and August 28) and two blog posts by the Free Our Data campaign, in which Cross is a leader (one and two, both from August 28).

For background, see our (many) past posts on the Free Our Data campaign to free up the data gathered by the Ordnance Survey.