From the Register:
Top boffins have given economic backing to a campaign to relax access restrictions on government-collected databases, such as the Ordnance Survey’s unrivalled stash of UK mapping information.
The Department for Business, Employment and Regulatory Reform (BERR, formerly DTI) released the analysis, commissioned from a team at the University of Cambridge, last week. It refutes […]
Entries Tagged as 'Geographical Information Systems'
UK Academics argue the case for UK Government to open up mapping Data.
March 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Geographical Information Systems, Government 2.0, Government as Platform, Infrastructure, Ireland, Local Government, UK
Tags: APIs·GIS·Government 2.0·Government as Platform·Infrastructure·Ireland·Local Government·UK
Public Wiki - Mapping Element
January 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Geographical Information Systems, Ireland, WIKIS, Web 2.0
We are now looking at Evan Miller’s Google Map Extension for Mediawiki as a solution for the mapping element of the public consultation project. Essentially we want visitors to be able to mark a point on a map and add a comment, this extension is pretty close to what we need, however at the moment […]