Steve i agree with the other Andy, who for ref does not state the view of DU or CASA in case you thought it was me.

A good and thoughtful comment Steve, I’ll get back with some more thoughts soon.

Just wanted to post this to avoid confusion with the Andy’s as we are not developing our own client.

Andy (CASA)

And it is very difficult to tella lawyer they are wrong – they hav a knack of agreeing that it is a stupid decision whilst telling you that you can’t do anything but abide by it.

You then arrange interdepartmental meetings, making sure that you invite the people who agree with your position, and make sure there is a group manager who is in charge and can form an independent opinion.

The worst thing you can do is contest the decision up the chain, as that means the higher-up people have the opinion pre-formed. You need people from their own department making the same arguments as you.

When it is laid out quite plainly that Google and Microsoft are going to eradicate the value of that data, it is obvious that their best interest is served by collecting what sponsorships they can get before it’s too late. Go for a 3D London Craigslist!

At the very least, you need to capture the names of the people who made such stupid decisions onto documentation so that they can be sacked or denied promotion in a couple of years. Then you won’t have to fight them again later on other equally obvious and sane things to do.

However you do need to stop doing one thing. Stop giving it up on a plate to Second Life, or Microsoft, or Google, just because they have a viewer program!

Write your own damned client and use that – and if that’s why other departments are saying “no” to you, then they’re right and everything I said above is what they should do to you!

Its a situation that cant continue, while it hits us as an educational establishment it hits private firms harder.

Andy (CASA)

This is a choice made by OS, because, at a very fundamental level the current licensing regime is broken, and there is no way to license data derived from OS Mastermap data.

Andy just keep up the great work !!

ed

Words fail me on the inability to publish it on a secure server via Google.

To see 6 years of research put on hold due to license restrictions which would of seen all parties viewed in a postitive light is kind of sad.

The removal of the work in Second Life i cant comment on….

Andy

You know, at the rate Microsoft is going, there is going to be a 3D London in Virtual Earth soon. Such a shame the UK won’t be responsible for releasing a 3D map of London first.