http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2006/12/ed-parsons-to-leave-ordnance-survey-but-why/ A Guardian Technology campaign for free public access to non-personal data about the UK and its citizens Sun, 14 Mar 2010 05:10:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2006/12/ed-parsons-to-leave-ordnance-survey-but-why/comment-page-1/#comment-6751 Internet Alchemy » Ed Parsons Moving On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 12:20:15 +0000 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=84#comment-6751 [...] With interest I note that Ed Parsons is stepping down as CTO of the Ordnance Survey. Some in the industry are puzzled but after having watched the interaction between Ed and projects like OpenStreetmap I’d like to hazard a guess. Ed has shown some interest in the open data movement (here, here and especially here for example). I think his guarded support should be read as very encouraging given his position as an executive officer of a government organisation that depends on commercialising its data to fund itself. In fact, I like to think that perhaps Ed would have liked the Ordnance Survey to be rather more open than it currently is. I’ve never spoken to him so this is purely speculation, but I think the key part of his post is this quote from the OS intranet: Ed is keen at this stage of his career to help develop more innovative areas of the GI industry. His decision comes as Ordnance Survey is focusing on a period of a consolidation in its strategic IT development and direction. [...] [...] With interest I note that Ed Parsons is stepping down as CTO of the Ordnance Survey. Some in the industry are puzzled but after having watched the interaction between Ed and projects like OpenStreetmap I’d like to hazard a guess. Ed has shown some interest in the open data movement (here, here and especially here for example). I think his guarded support should be read as very encouraging given his position as an executive officer of a government organisation that depends on commercialising its data to fund itself. In fact, I like to think that perhaps Ed would have liked the Ordnance Survey to be rather more open than it currently is. I’ve never spoken to him so this is purely speculation, but I think the key part of his post is this quote from the OS intranet: Ed is keen at this stage of his career to help develop more innovative areas of the GI industry. His decision comes as Ordnance Survey is focusing on a period of a consolidation in its strategic IT development and direction. [...]

]]> http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/2006/12/ed-parsons-to-leave-ordnance-survey-but-why/comment-page-1/#comment-6250 TechCrunch UK » Blog Archive » Has the Ordnance Survey CTO left over Web 2.0? Wed, 06 Dec 2006 18:35:23 +0000 http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=84#comment-6250 [...] As the Guardian’s Free Our Data blog says: “We found him an interesting person who was certainly prepared to engage in the debate about free data and constantly looked for what the future holds in mapping. Who will succeed him, and will they bring that same drive to OS?” [...] [...] As the Guardian’s Free Our Data blog says: “We found him an interesting person who was certainly prepared to engage in the debate about free data and constantly looked for what the future holds in mapping. Who will succeed him, and will they bring that same drive to OS?” [...]

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