THe OS debate continues…. this time it’s serious!!

Tuesday, 25 November, 2008

The Pre-Budget Report published yesterday was obviously designed to get us to “spend, spend, spend”, but the small print contained much of interest to the debate on trading funds and publicly collected data (not just by the OS). Many feathers seem to have been ruffled in Whitehall, probably not least those of the Home Secretary; “crime maps” is probably rapidly becoming a rude phrase! Anyway, both Ed Parsons and Charles Arthur (FoD) have succinctly outlined the key parts of the document and some of the things they hint at.

Time will tell where this is all heading….