<p>Hi Guys,</p>
<p>At Astun we've been working with OS data for years with Open Software. We've recently signed up as Developer Partners which allows access to data for development, testing and demonstration and also joined the Insight program which allows early access to new products. I'd be happy to pass on details to anyone that's interested.</p>
<p>I agree that we should look to get the open software we know is compatible on the list and I'm happy to find out what's required.</p>
<p>On a related note we've recently pulled together a simple OS MasterMap loader which is a thin Python wrapper around OGR 1.8. The source is available at <a href="https://github.com/AstunTechnology/osmmloader">https://github.com/AstunTechnology/osmmloader</a>. It's only designed to load an initial supply at present but we will possibly look at adding CoU support in future. Jo Cook has been working on a MapServer map file to style the output which we'll put up with the source shortly. Some highlights include: it uses ogr2ogr which meeans that you can write to all destination formats supported by OGR by providing ogr2ogr command line options; it reads GML or GZ natively and it's open software :-)</p>
<p>Thanks,</p><p>Matt.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 6 Apr 2011 17:19, "Barry Rowlingson" <<a href="mailto:b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk" target="_blank">b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 10:33 PM, Joanne Cook <<a href="mailto:j.cook@thehumanjourney.net" target="_blank">j.cook@thehumanjourney.net</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Perhaps we should find out who to contact and offer to update it for them?<br>> <br>> There's a customer services contact:<br>> <br>> "For general enquiries, complaints, feedback or suggestions, email:<br>
> <a href="mailto:customerservices@ordnancesurvey.co.uk" target="_blank">customerservices@ordnancesurvey.co.uk</a> or call us on 08456 05 05 05"<br>> <br>> I think we need someone to enquire for a sample of test data sets,<br>
> and what the OS consider as 'supports' in the table. Just loading it<br>> without errors might not be enough.<br>> <br>> It might also be worth suggesting they add a GDAL/OGR row which would<br>> cover most Open-source GIS and lots of proprietary ones too.<br>
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