2. Government: good and bad
Government is good at collecting data, especially
where the market would not (e.g map data of
remote areas — rarely visited but matter in
emergencies or to small groups)
3. Government: good and bad
Government is good at collecting data, especially
where the market would not (e.g map data of
remote areas — rarely visited but matter in
emergencies or to small groups)
Government is inefficient at using its data. Tide
tables, map data, weather data and other
information can be mixed together by people who
know how to use it to create new sets of information
- “mashups”.
4. The problem: licences
Crown Copyright is designed to be restrictive: it was
introduced with printing.
Licences can be expensive; confusing (restrict use in
a world where easy flow of data matters) and cause
delay (they make what should be fast, slow).
Without licensing and charging, there would be
faster movement.
We propose: no licences; no charges. Make up the
difference from the tax revenues generated by new
businesses and the expansion of existing ones.
5. Other countries have done it
South Africa
New Zealand
Australia
Denmark
Canada
United States
Spain
6. What’s a trading fund?
Government
Treasury
departments
Local authorities
Ordnance
Survey
Private sector
companies
7. What’s a trading fund?
Central funding
Government
Treasury
departments
Local authorities
Ordnance
Survey
Private sector
companies
8. What’s a trading fund?
Central funding
Government
Treasury
departments
Taxes
Local authorities
Ordnance
Survey
Private sector
companies
9. What’s a trading fund?
Central funding
OS data
Government
Treasury
departments
Taxes OS data
Local authorities
Ordnance
Survey OS data
Private sector
companies
10. What’s a trading fund?
Central funding
OS data
Government
Treasury
departments
Taxes OS data
Local authorities
Ordnance
Survey OS data
Spends
Licence Private sector
money
payments companies
making
maps
11. What’s a trading fund?
Central funding
OS data
Government
Treasury
departments
Taxes OS data
Surplus
Local authorities
Ordnance
Survey OS data
Spends
Licence Private sector
money
payments companies
making
maps
12. What’s a trading fund?
Central funding
OS data
Government
Treasury
departments
Taxes OS data
Surplus
Local authorities
Ordnance
Survey OS data
Spends
Licence Private sector
money
payments companies
making
maps
13. What’s a trading fund?
Central funding
OS data
Government
Treasury
departments
Taxes OS data
Surplus
Local authorities
Ordnance
Survey OS data
Spends
Licence Private sector
money
payments companies
making
maps NB: generates no revenue
14. What’s a trading fund?
Central funding
OS data
Government
Treasury
departments
Taxes OS data
Surplus
Local authorities
Ordnance
Survey OS data
Spends
Licence Private sector
money
payments companies
making
maps NB: generates no revenue
15. A better model
Government
Treasury
departments
Local authorities
Ordnance
Survey
Private sector
companies
16. A better model
Government
Treasury
departments
Local authorities
Ordnance
Survey
Spends
Private sector
money
companies
making
maps
17. A better model
Central funding
Government
Treasury
departments
Local authorities
Ordnance
Survey
Spends
Private sector
money
companies
making
maps
18. A better model
Central funding
OS data
Government
Treasury
departments
OS data
Local authorities
Ordnance
Survey OS data
Spends
Private sector
money
companies
making
maps
19. A better model
Central funding
OS data
Government
Treasury
departments
OS data
Local authorities
Ordnance
Survey Taxes OS data
Spends
Private sector
money
companies
making
maps
20. A better model
Central funding
OS data
Government
Treasury
departments
OS data
Local authorities
Ordnance
Survey Taxes OS data
Spends
Private sector
money
No purple lines! companies
making
maps
21. A better model
Central funding
OS data
Government
Treasury
departments
OS data
Local authorities
Ordnance
Survey Taxes OS data
Spends
Private sector
money
No purple lines! companies
making
maps No red arrows!
23. And it actually costs money
Last year, an economic study by private consultants
found that confusing government policies were harming
a business worth billions to the economy every year.
Government agencies often use their limited funds to
collect, manage and distribute the data. This drives
some agencies to adopt pricing policies that ‘over-
recover’ the cost of producing information,” says the
report's author...
24. And it actually costs money
Last year, an economic study by private consultants
found that confusing government policies were harming
a business worth billions to the economy every year.
Government agencies often use their limited funds to
collect, manage and distribute the data. This drives
some agencies to adopt pricing policies that ‘over-
recover’ the cost of producing information,” says the
report's author...
...David Hocking, chief executive of the Australian
Spatial Information Business Association.
25. Generating wealth from free can be done
The Global Positioning System (GPS)
cost to install: $8.5bn
cost to run: about $750m annually
Revenues generated from GPS units, services etc:
“global turnover for satellite navigation products in
2001 amounted to €15 billion and is expected to rise
to €140 billion by 2015. In 2001 approximately 30%
of the global revenues were generated in Europe.”
26. Paid-for creates economic friction
A local authority may end up paying multiple times
for data it has generated — meaning taxpayers pay
1: planning application site map from OS (£25)
2: local council pays for map base (payment to OS)
3: personal taxes (half of OS revenue is from tax)
4: OS and Post Office creates Local Land and
Property Gazetteer (LLPG) from local authority data
provided free
5: person checks application using postcode search:
local authority charged per click (from local taxes)