February 18, 2006
Purely selfish point of view
You should all go and sign the Petition for Public Access to Geographic Data in Europe. I won't even try explaining why, because Jo Walsh has done a better job of it already on the openstreetmap mailing list.
From a purely selfish point of view, of course, better access to free geodata in Europe would make running The Open Guide to Nottingham both easier and more useful, since at the moment three different types of data need to be entered independently for a given location, even though the data to calculate all 3 from just 1 is out there — the 3 types being postcode, address and co-ordinates.
Posted by James at 12:32
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