UK Geospatial Commission - responses to call for evidence and 2020 plan
Hi all,
I think I have written about the UK's Geospatial Commission several months ago. As a reminder this is a group set up by UK Government to look at the geospatial industry and how to support it.
They started with a Call for Evidence which OSM UK responded to. Turns out that everyone and their dog also responded, hence it has taken so long for them to gather the results. These are now published online - all 2354 pages as a single PDF(!). The list of companies acts as a good indicator of the UK companies interested in geospatial.
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/geospatial-commission-call-for-evidence-responses
The commission has also published it's Annual Plan 2019 - 2020:
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/geospatial-commission-annual-plan-2019-2020
RobJN Thu 6 Jun 2019 10:16PM
By the way if you want to pull all the quote out (with who they are attributed to), we can do an article on our website / email newsletter. If you'd like to volunteer for this, please let me know.
Jez Nicholson Fri 7 Jun 2019 1:41PM
I just had email contact with someone from the Geospatial Commission (in the Cabinet Office) and invited them to drop in at the AGM meetup to say hi. They are also open to a meeting with OSMUK at a later date.
RobJN Fri 7 Jun 2019 7:47PM
That's good. Did they approach us on this occasion? Any idea why?
Jez Nicholson Fri 7 Jun 2019 9:44PM
I approached them.
Gregory Marler (former Director) Wed 12 Jun 2019 6:24PM
I started a Twitter thread of points I find interesting in the responses (not limited to OSM mentions).
https://twitter.com/gregorymarler/status/1138850296254402562
Jez Nicholson Fri 21 Jun 2019 2:29PM
Through my invitation of the Geospatial Commission to the Annual Gathering we have been invited to a meeting at the Cabinet Office next Friday. Gregory and I will be meeting people from the data researchers. Will report back as much as able to.
RobJN · Thu 6 Jun 2019 10:15PM
One of the things we can do is a keyword search to see which organisations mentioned "OpenStreetMap". They are:
Those that mention "Open Street Map" include:
Finally "OSM" (only those not mentioned above):
P.S Ordnance Survey wrote "In some places Open Street Map, enabled by large corporations, is standing in for national mapping."