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It's quite amusing to compare and contrast the announcements from DCLG and Ordnance Survey today, regarding boundaries, postcode areas and mid scale mapping information. DCLG's press release proudly declares: The Prime Minister and Communities Secretary John Denham will today announce that the public will have more access to Ordnance Survey maps from next year, as part [...] read on »

Over the last few weeks, I've been working with Ordnance Survey to produce a WordPress version of their new business strategy, published today. As you'll immediately spot, it's another piece of work based on Steph Gray's Commentariat theme, including some of the tweaks I did for BERR's Low Carbon Strategy. As I write this, I've literally [...] read on »

London's Metropolitan Police has launched the first test of its planned 'crime mapping' application, and at first glance, it's really quite nice. There's data from borough to 'sub-ward' (a few streets), although at the moment it's only carrying aggregated totals of 'burglary, robbery and vehicle crime'. The 'high/average/low' colour coding makes it easy to take in; [...] read on »

The Home Office is confirming that it'll press ahead with online crime mapping, as recommended by today's Casey Report on Engaging Communities in Fighting Crime. Even better, the Power Of Information taskforce - specifically Will Perrin and Tom Loosemore, in apparent association with designers Schulze and Webb - have posted a few concepts showing not only [...] read on »

'Following a successful closed launch', apparently involving no fewer than 12 developers, Ordnance Survey has opened the doors to OpenSpace. It describes itself as 'a JavaScript® Application Programming Interface (API) that uses 'slippy map' technology, letting you dynamically pan the map by grabbing and sliding the image in any direction you like.' Just like Google [...] read on »