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Ordnance Survey offers support to
A government-led competition to find ground-breaking ideas for the sharing of public information is getting a boost from Britain’s national mapping agency.
Organisers of the Show Us A Better Way contest looked for entries demonstrating how government information can be made more useful and accessible to the public.
The winners include a website called “Can I recycle it?” – designed to help people locate their nearest recycling centres. To help bring these pioneering information resources to life, Ordnance Survey is offering development support – as well as providing access to its world-renowned mapping data.
“Congratulations to these very worthy winners,” says Ordnance Survey Director Peter ter Haar. “‘Can I recycle it?’ is an excellent example of how combining geographic information with additional data can provide an innovative and powerful tool – to benefit the entire community,” he added.
“Recycling is a key activity – on both environmental and economic grounds – and is supported by government and the public at large. People can potentially use this resource to locate their nearest recycling centres quickly and easily. We are very keen to give the developers all the support they need to make this website – and the other winning entries – a huge success.”
This year Ordnance Survey launched OS OpenSpace, a free experimental service providing a rich web API application programming interface, allowing access to a range of spatial data. It allows others the freedom to innovate using geographic information – with confidence in the national consistency and currency of the data they use.
“As well as full access to OS OpenSpace, we are offering the winners of this competition hands-on development support; the expertise of our marketing, press and public relations teams, and workshops to help them achieve the full potential of this superb initiative.”
- Email: rob.andrews@ordnancesurvey.co.uk
- Phone: (+44) 023 8079 2265
- Senior Communications & PR Officer - Paul Beauchamp
- Email: paul.beauchamp@ordnancesurvey.co.uk
- Phone: (+44) 023 8079 2568
Press Office fax: (+44) 023 8030 5295
