[OSGeo-UK] How to use OS data? Missing OS GIS

Barry Rowlingson b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk
Tue Apr 5 10:15:17 EDT 2011


On Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Saber Razmjooei
<razmjooeis at faunalia.co.uk> wrote:
> There is a spreadsheet on the OS website with the list of GIS software
> packages which support (read and write) OS data.
>
> http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/support/systems-and-software/index.html
>
> I could not find any Free and Open Source GIS software there.
> Does any one know how we can update the spreadsheet and include the long
> list of FOSS GIS supporting OS data (uDig, gvSIG, QGIS, GRASS...just to name
> a few).

 QGIS is listed, but at least one of the entries is wrong - I just
happily loaded the OS Vector Map Local GML sample dataset into Qgis
1.6. I'm guessing they didnt actually try...

Barry


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