Comments on: Text of Norwegian mapping service announcement, in English

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 10:25:07 +0000

UKHO on the line?…

Government puts key UK assets on block
James Ashton

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A CATALOGUE of state assets, including the High Speed 1 rail link and the Dartford river crossing, will be put up for sale tomorrow as the government eyes a £10 billion windfall from its latest privatisation programme.

The Treasury will issue a prospectus of 18 assets it believes can be sold, along with a proposed timetable for disposal. Among the handful it will attempt to sell next year are the Tote bookmaker, some of its 51% stake in National Air Traffic Services, a tranche of the student loans book and the Emergency Planning College.

Strong buyer interest will also fast-track the sales processes of its holding in Urenco, the uranium processor, Ordnance Survey, the Met Office, Land Registry and the UK Hydrographic Office.

In October, Gordon Brown set a target of raising £16 billion from property and asset sales to boost Treasury coffers.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/economics/article6945904.ece

By: Charles Arthur

Charles Arthur — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 23:59:18 +0000

Thanks, Anders. The 404 for the Contact page is for when you’re on a specific link. I need to adjust the code a bit. Thanks for the pointer.

By: Anders E

Anders E — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:23:42 +0000

My last comment was eaten by the spam filter, so if you are admin, please remove this comment and restore the last one. PS: Your contact page is giving a 404…

By: Anders E

Anders E — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 16:21:38 +0000

The last sentence should be something like this in English: “The service will be available for a test period of six months. It will be continually evaluated and enhanced. If the service works as planned, the offer/service will be made permanentely available”.

It is also important to notice that the map data is not available – only the viewing of pre rendered or on-the-fly rendered maps using normal tile caches (with pre-rendered map tiles) or WMS services (with a number of different map types/layers).

The data itself, polygons, wmf services etc are still not available, but hope is that it will be relased free to the public as well.

And for many of us working with commercial web sites: our maps will still use Google’s map service. We hope though that the mapping authority will allow commercial sites to use the maps as well when they realize that this “free” offer is quite limited in use..

A Google translate (pretty ok one) of the techincal docs related to the WMS service: http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=hp&hl=no&js=y&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.statkart.no%2F%3Fmodule%3DArticles%3Baction%3DArticle.publicShow%3BID%3D14089&sl=no&tl=en&history_state0=