Ordnance Survey Roll Out Free Platform

By Digital Trends Staff Published October 25, 2009

Ordnance Survey Roll Out Free Platform Britain’s Ordnance Survey maps are known around the world as the gold standard, covering the country in incredible detail that feeds the needs ofhikers, travelers and anyone with an interest in geography. But now they want eager developers to have a go at their data. In fact they’re so anxious for it to happen that they’vecreated an online platform called OS OpenSpace. The public launch comes early in 2008, but a select group are already working with it, importing data from elsewhere online, and adding markers andother features. Under an application programming interface (API) developers can register for a data feed to experiment with non-commercially, including a range of mapping scales covering thewhole of Great Britain down to street level. There’s even a community site to encourage communication between developers. "Technology continues to expand the opportunitiesfor benefiting from geographic information," Vanessa Lawrence, Ordnance Survey’s director general and chief executive, said in a statement. "Our OS OpenSpace project is all about promotinginnovation and allowing non-commercial experimentation with our mapping data." Steve Coast, founder of OpenStreetMap and a consultant on the development of OS OpenSpace, said, "Thisrepresents one of the most significant releases of a mapping data API. It will be interesting to see what web developers do with it."

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