Ed Parsons provides an interesting example of just how crazy the world UK of geodata can be – when a digital copy (with essentially zero marginal cost) of an Ordnance Survey map costs more than twice the equivalent paper map, with all it’s associated costs of production and distribution, something is very, very wrong somewhere.
They [...]
Archive of entries posted on July 2009
Ordnance Survey Pricing Fail
OnStream Fail
Apparently my gas meter needs to be replaced, and OnStream have been contracted to do the work.
Needing to arrange a time to do the work they wrote to me, in a letter dated 14th July, proposing to do the work on 23rd July and asking me to confirm the appointment. Allowing for the time for [...]
