Ignore the Budget – get the trading funds report
The trading funds report that Tom Steinberg and Ed Mayo recommended should be carried out (in the Power Of Information report for the government) has just been published, while Alastair Darling has been giving his budget.
Download it from DBERR (584KB PDF). For future reference, the file is at http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file45136.pdf.
We’ll host the file here presently. That is, once we’ve read it!
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- DCLG Select Committee snipes at Ordnance Survey; MoD says why not split it up? (7 February 2008; score: 31.82%)
- Trading Funds report: final totals: economy +£179m, gov't -15.4m (19 March 2008; score: 24.23%)
- Government answers (cagily) on free data questions (22 April 2008; score: 23.84%)
- Why privatising Ordnance Survey (and other trading funds) would be the worst possible outcome (updated) (23 November 2008; score: 23.2%)
March 12th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
So it seems that what they are recommending is that OS supplies DNF large scale topo data at zero cost to non-government customers.
Unless I’ve got it wrong, it seems to hint that participants in collective purchase agreements such as local government in the Mapping Services Agreement might plug the shortfall in OS funding!