No doubt you’ve heard the buzz from the Ordnance Survey and the OS OpenData initiative… as of yesterday the doors are open! OS OpenData (www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/opendata) allows users to download a wide range of mapping and geographic information for free reuse direct to their computers; view maps and boundary information for the whole country; and develop web-map applications using Ordnance Survey’s OS OpenSpace API – See Details HERE
The following datasets are included in OS OpenData:
OS Street View
1: 50 000 Gazetteer
1: 250 000 Colour Raster
OS Locator
Boundary-Line
Code-Point Open
Meridian 2
Strategi
MiniScale
Land-Form PANORAMA
OS VectorMap District (available May 2010)