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[The Guardian says...] Think of Ordnance Survey’s (OS) mapping data: useful to any business that wanted to provide a service in the UK, yet out of reach of startup companies without deep pockets.
It is not out of reach of start-up companies. This takes no account of either the role of our partners or our network of specialist retail agents, OS Options, in delivering affordable, large-scale mapping to the citizen and small and medium sized businesses. Like other customers and partners of Ordnance Survey, start-up companies are benefiting from easier licensing terms and value for money pricing. Any organisation can copy its Ordnance Survey data holdings for internal business uses — such as producing leaflets for shareholders or showing the location of a branch network on a company website — from as little as 47.50 a year plus VAT, less than 1 a week. The costs of licensing small and medium scale data are far less than for the topologically structured national large-scale data which tends to be used only by national infrastructure organisations. Start-up companies who wish to build products and services based on our data can join a developer programme in which they can access more than 40,000 worth of data in return for a small administration fee of 500. Many of these developers have gone on to pursue successful businesses as full licensed partners of Ordnance Survey.
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