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_hex: "There will, if necessary, be a grass-roots remapping." _hex: Like, for example, OpenStreetMap. dajobe: for those who don't know, OS is the UK quasi-governmental profit-making department that locks up geo and mapping data UK tax payers paid for dajobe: although compare to BBC in a similar state re it's creative outputs timbl: The OS have always sold maps for money. That doesn't mean they have cut a net profit -- the impression I had (possibly wrong) was the government would like them to break even.
_hex: Like, for example, OpenStreetMap.
dajobe: for those who don't know, OS is the UK quasi-governmental profit-making department that locks up geo and mapping data UK tax payers paid for
dajobe: although compare to BBC in a similar state re it's creative outputs
timbl: The OS have always sold maps for money. That doesn't mean they have cut a net profit -- the impression I had (possibly wrong) was the government would like them to break even.