Terms of Reference revealed!
UK Members of Parliament ask the Minister responsible for the Ordnance Survey of Great Britain for the terms of reference of the International Comparison of Geographical Trading Models to be published. Mr Tom Watson MP previously at Cabinet Office - Power of Information asks for the terms of reference to be published!
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"15 July 2009: Column 497W
International Comparison of Geographical Trading Models
Mr. Watson: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government what the terms of reference were for the Ordnance Survey report entitled International Comparison of Geographical Trading Models; who was responsible for commissioning the report; and if he will place in the Library a copy of the report. [284789]
Mr. Ian Austin: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer I gave to the hon. Member for Meriden (Mrs. Spelman) on 14 July 2009, Official Report, column 316W.
The report was commissioned in April 2009 by my hon. Friend the Member for Hartlepool (Mr. Wright).
The terms of reference were:
“To provide a broad comparison of various trading models used by a representative sample of National Mapping Agencies with the current model operated by Ordnance Survey, and to understand their impact on the range, quality, currency and provision of national mapping, and of its use.”"
"14 July 2009 : Column 316W
Ordnance Survey
Mrs. Spelman: To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government if he will place in the Library a copy of the study produced by Ordnance Survey on the cost of a free data model, with commercially confidential elements redacted as necessary. [284566]
Mr. Ian Austin: A redacted copy of "International Comparison of Geographical Information Trading Models: A report for the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on the outcomes of different trading models for Geographical Information" is available on the Ordnance Survey website at:
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/aboutus/foi/icgitm.html
This redacted version is an interim release pending permission from overseas' contributors to release information which they contributed."
Further information on the report have been published in two revealing responses to the UK Guardian Free Our Data campaign blog topic titled: OS expert Isn’t Max Craglia either… so who is it?
- Response from: Professor Jonathan Raper
- Response from: Professor David Rhind posted on the 14 July 2009 (Chair of UK APPSI). The reponse states:
“Jonathan Raper, my esteemed colleague and old friend, suggests I wrote the international comparison of mapping agency funding models for OS. I had no hand whatsoever in it – this would have been a clear conflict of interests with my role in APPSI. It would not however have been difficult to write since I can’t see in the report – through the redaction -anything that was not previously well known. As a consequence, many people could have written it. But to repeat, I had no hand in that report…”
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