Privatisation of the Land Registry - consultation

[mark at tlio.org.uk]

REALLY IMPORTANT:
Consultation on the Public Data Corporation

The Government has launched a consultation asking how it should 
release the data held by Ordnance Survey, the Met Office and the Land 
Registry: shortly to become the Public Data Corporation. Reply before 
the 27th October 2011

TLIO believes that raw data held by the Public Data Corporation and 
its constituents such as maps and land ownership records is public 
data, and should be made freely available to all (no charge), for any 
purpose.



Taken from:
http://pdcconsult.ernestmarples.com/

Consultation on the Public Data Corporation

Didn't this already happen?
This is much more important than the postcode consultation that Ernest 
Marples asked you to respond to last time. Because as well as postcode 
data, it includes maps, gazettes, boundaries, weather observations and 
predictions, land ownership records, and more besides.

With the exception of postcode data and a few other watered-down 
Ordnance Survey products, all of this data is currently only available 
for a fee, despite being collected by these organisations as part of 
their public task.

So what *should* be happening?
Ernest thinks that the raw data held by the Public Data Corporation 
and its constituents is public data, and should be made available to 
all, for free, for any purpose.

More info and online reply form available here:

http://pdcconsult.ernestmarples.com/