AGI georant: The grass is always greener ... in defence of the Ordnance Survey
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The grass is always greener …
in defence of the
Peter Batty
Additional rules:3 Shakespeare
quotations
Ordnance Survey
Everyone’s favorite punchbag
“O most pernicious woman!O
villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!”
Hamlet
A portion of this slide is© Crown copyright 2006
“Our taxes fund the collection of public data - yet we have to pay again to access it. [Make] it freely available
to stimulate innovation”The Guardian “Free Our Data” web site
“Why, sir, I pray, are the streets not as free for me as
for you?” Steve Coast, OpenStreetMap Tranio, Taming of the
Shrew
sadly it’s not that simple ...
Taxes only pay half of the costsCosts are ongoing, not one off
Many competing priorities for tax moneyAll geodata is not equal
Commercial companies can profit
How the devil Luxury, with his fat rump and potato finger, tickles these together! Fry,
lechery, fry!Thersites, Troilus and Cressida
Land of the Free
“For mine own part, I breathe free breath.” Armado, Love’s Labour’s
Lost
I think we I think we should raise should raise taxes or cut taxes or cut spending on spending on schools to do schools to do
better mappingbetter mapping
Slide courtesy Larry Moore, from Briefing to the USGS State Partnerships Meeting
Missing Pepsi Center
(Built 10 years ago)USGS Topo Map
TIGER dataUS Census Bureau
The US situationNo large scale “national map”
Utilities and local governments map themselves
Most cities are mapped many timesSignificant map inconsistencies
flickr.com/photos/izik/3215303355/
National Mapping Agencies
Cost
Product
Good product but
expensive
Free or cheap but product
lackingWe want to be here ...
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence
flickr.com/photos/goetter/2386416953/
“Free” (taxpayers foot the whole bill) is not the right answer
Elements of a solution
Reducing costs is key – sensors and crowdsourcing
This presentation is too short to explain the entire solution !