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Petition update, 21 September 2009

More details from petition creator

Satisfy the national interest and consumer need for accurate, high quality and readily available UK maps by making them freely available, ideally with no licensing or copyright restrictions. This will encourage commercial and public body exploitation, ensuring efficient and widespread utilisation of public information. The problem: If you want to publish UK location based data derived from Ordnance Survey maps (most data is) on a map background, such as GoogleMaps then you are probably infringing copyright. This applies to EVERYONE including other government departments! Solution: Review the trading status of Ordnance Survey, changing from a ‘Trading Fund’ (require to ‘break-even’) to a directly funded government department. Review Copyright licences – what are we actually trying to protect and from whom? The Benefit: Remove the existing and extensive bureaucracy and licensing conflicts that exist between the numerous parties involved. Make UK Plc more efficient!

Current signatories

Andrew Hughes, the Petition Creator, joined by:

• John Holden (petitions.pm.gov.uk/Thereisnogod)
• Mr Partis (petitions.pm.gov.uk/noavspeedcameras/)
• toby rodgers
• Richard Stretton
• Chris Madle
• Situl Shah
• D Clarke
• Paul Trodd
• Stephen Wilkinson
• Bob Rayner
• Alan Jenkins
• Matthew Slowe
• Maria Penn
• Nick Clement
• Robbie Dyer
• Dr William George Allen
• Tony Southwood
• Edward Manning
• Andrew Smith
• Daniel Hadley
• Edward Jones
• S Lim
• Stuart Harrison
• Simon Ward
• Anthony Cartmell
• Paul Grainger
• Denis Payne
• Dennis Bauszus
• Thomas Dean
• Jon Dean
• Paul Sculthorpe
• Grant Slater
• Vinesh Govind
• Robert Whittaker
• Stephen McWilliam
• Susan McManus
• Julia Hancell
• Martin Harvey
• Dr. Louise Bacon
• Margaret Haggerty
• Katie Milburn
• Clare Sterling
• Elaine Wright
• Mark Schofield
• Catherine Collop
• Matthew Davies
• saskie lovell
• Aimee Jones
• Julia Coulson
• Jill Gray
• Laura Hurt
• Lauren Alexander
• Christine Beadle
• Chloe Smith
• mina miller
• Denis Vickers
• Adam Ingleby
• Lindsay Bamforth
• Anita Burrough
• Hannah Stockwell
• Nigel Reeve
• Nida Al Fulaij
• Richard Jones
• Neil Ireland
• Christine Oines
• John Archer
• Claire Shahbazian
• Alan Scott
• Marina Pacheco
• Mark Simmons
• Richard Moseley
• Alastair Sommerville
• Jim Jones
• Dr Iain Boulton
• Ashley White
• Peter Harvey
• Judith Rosten
• Helen Hutton
• helen wallis
• Jennie Mills
• Graeme Duckworth
• Rosie Shute
• Tom Oliver
• Eric fletcher
• Lucy Cordrey
• Kay Haw
• Diana Hagues
• Linda Moore
• Jon Best
• Josie World
• Susan Sharafi
• ben farrell
• David Gordon Dawson
• Linda Blackett
• Chris Gannaway
• Charles Roper
• Gail Rainford
• sarah lynch
• Tajinder Lachhar
• Dave Lawrence
• Ian Woodward
• David-Sarah Hopwood
• Ross Bower
• Dr Angela Brennan
• Maurits Fontein
• Paul Losse
• Caroline Birchall
• Patricia Lorber
• Trevor J. James
• Martin Horlock
• Miranda Waugh
• Steve Oram
• Tim Hogg
• Sara Carvalho
• Claudia Watts
• Julia Trafford
• Francis Castro
• Philip Briggs
• Lisa Hundt
• Steve Lucas
• Amanda Adebisi
• Dave Sutton
• Annie Haycock
• Bob Haycock
• David Harries
• Holly Harries
• Kevin Johns
• John Lloyd
• Jerry Clough
• Neil Burrows
• Martin Stolworthy
• stephen coker
• Hugo Blomfield
• Colin Hawke
• Malcolm Ogilvie
• Julia Hanmer
• Penny Green
• andrew lawson
• Portia Baker
• Peter Lewis
• Colin Hitchcock
• Stephen Gower
• Jon Stockill
• Andrew Elwell
• Andy Wood
• Dee Earley
• Anne-Marie Smout
• Alison Rasey
• Stephen Kilbee
• Tom Richards
• Steve Paddock
• David Owen
• Julie Harrald
• Tim Holt-Wilson
• Adam Stinton
• Andrew Jenkinson
• Bill Horsfield
• Diana M. Perkins
• Tim Dixon
• Caroline Wallis
• John Diss
• Richard Coombes
• Y Seedat
• Keith Alexander
• Jenny Gladstone
• Richard Tanner
• Toby Hopkins
• Anthony Duddle
• Alice Froggatt
• Margaret Rodway
• Alison Tymon
• John Yeudall
• Moira Jenkins
• Christopher Jack
• Tony Elger
• Janet Munro
• Mr R J Piercy
• Martin Whiteley
• Beverley Fowlston
• mark giddings
• Malcolm Oliver
• Michelle Taylor
• Peter F. Friend
• Anne Williams
• Trevor Gill
• Gary Fenton
• Zoe Roden
• Mary-Jane Sturt
• Sean Kelly
• Jack Bye
• Alexander Oats
• John Hatto
• Dr J Gough
• andy garwood
• Andrew Miller
• Bhupendra Behari
• Sarah Taylor
• Geoff Bowen
• Kerry Daniels
• Peter Wightman
• Andrew Thompson
• Nigel Johnson
• Daniel Glassey
• Christopher Woods
• Andrew Deakin
• Robert Naylor
• Chris Hill
• Dan Karran
• Peter Childs
• William Warby
• Matthew Williams
• John McKerrell
• Robert dean
• Christopher Jackson
• Alexander Wright
• Ron Wellsted
• Philip Stubbs
• AMY JACKSON
• Scott Bradley
• Rafe Benli
• Tom Chance
• Riley Marsden
• Nick Rorke
• Elizabeth Dixon
• Thomas Morgan
• Roger Lancefield
• Stephen Hill
• Adrian Godwin
• Eric Ingram
• Axel Jacobs
• Douglas Furlong
• Georgina Payne
• Peter Millar
• Sara Hinds
• Neil Hoggarth
• Alison Anderson
• Simon Virr
• Robert Irwin
• Guy Rowland
• Jez Nixon
• Mario Caves
• Chris Holden