OS Reveals Secret Locations

Monday, August 7, 2006

An interesting article in The Guardian today reports that the OS will be putting the locations of “secret” government facilities on their Landranger maps. With the availability of aerial imagery from firms such as Getmapping and their increasing availability through services like Google Earth, much of this information was readily available anyway. Perhaps the interesting aspect of this is how many features will be added and what will be left missing out?? One assumes that this data is already in Mastermap and that there must be “Top Secret: Don’t Show Anyone” flag in the database which makes sure its ommitted. Anyone know.

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