| The Ordnance Survey of Great Britain in response to a Freedom of Information Act 2000 request (Ordnance Survey reference: 71746) released a document from Transport for London (TfL) that had been submitted as part of the public consultation on the Ordnance Survey business strategy.
The Transport for London submission sets out a series of measured by which Project 16 could be measured. The TfL response makes the following opening statements:
“We are generally dissappointed in the scope of this consultation and regret that it is not more wide ranging TfL has major concerns with the issues of Derived Data which over-ride many of the items of this consultation
We do not think that OS has paid sufficient attention to its many Government customers and their Public Task
We regret the enormous cost in both time and resources that Government bodies have to spend on procurring OS data”
In response to Goal 1 - Promote innovation for economic benefit and social engagement, TfL responded:
“OS appears to wish to promote innovation by launching such services in house, experience suggests that this is not the best way and that they should concentrate on making their data freely available and allow the market to innovate.”
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