The Ordnance Survey has 4,000,000 POIs for you...

[apskinner]

For all those Naive people who say its paid out of your taxes

and as has already been pointed out -"do you expect your OS maps to be free?)"

What do you think the OS does with the money it gets from the private companies it sells data to, what does it do with the money it gets from sales of maps & software?

Simple - the fiscal budgets from the Govt for most government institutions only cover some of the expenditure the rest comes from commercial operations and this would be no more than another commercial operation to balance the budget.

Its the duty of every public body to get finance from alternative sources to reduce the burden on the tax payer. How do you think the BBC makes such good programs, not from the small license fee but mostly from the sale of those programs to other countries & broadcasters

And yes I have been a British Tax Payer for 26 years (still am even over here !!!) And I'm still believe 10 pounds is worth it to ensure quality.

[bytte]

Iwould be happy to pay. I don't see why they shouldn't offer all of the charging models - we don't need a one size fits all. Indeed I would imagine there would be folk out there who would be happy to pay £50 for a lifetime membership. Set it up a let it run for the first year, after which adjust the charging model depending on demand or whatever. If they say the lifetime membership price is about to increase to say £250 next month, they would probably get a lot more £50s.

[Gee-Pee]

[yeortongill]

I voted for free POI. Just because I feel that perhaps the POI e.g. pub or fuel station should make a small contribution to the OS people, mainly to verify that their latitude and longitudes are in the right place. I don't think things like hospitals and NHS clinics should pay but it would be nice to have them on the POI list. My son was treated for cancer again this year and again we had to go to a different treatment centre to try new methods but half the hospitals are not in POI lists 2/3 in Newcastle upon tyne (our main centre, 150miles away!!) 2 years ago the Royal Marsden Surry wasn't in either and its a BIG London Hospital (7.5 hours from us!!) This year in Sheffield it was a marvelous help to find a place to eat close to the hospital on the POI list but the selection was limited.

[Skippy]

[Gee-Pee]

[FourQ]

I'm with the crew that believe POI's should be free.
It's not as though it's classified information we''re talking about something that you can go outside and find yourself, and as people have mentioned, we've already paid for them anyway.

If the OS are going to charge for the POI's, then I'll do things the fun way - jump on my bike with the lads and find these things myself.

It's not as though we're in the playground - you can only play with my toys if I can play with yours!

[astrocompass]

[sausages]

[kencooper]

Hi, im afraid i go with the £10 per year group because i think it should be well worth, to be able to get accurate information on certain categories. I would never be able to use a large number of the categories, because being retired means i am only interested in the leisure and camp sites etc.
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Ken cooper

[DennisN]

[iql]

Surely if we wait someone within OS will lose a disk and it would then
turn up on some web site for sale.

After all the government can't stop losing data..

I would pay between £5 -£10
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Alistair

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QUEMCUNQUE MISERUM VIDERIS HOMINEM SCIAS
[Whomsoever you see in distress, recognize in him a fellow man].

[mostdom]

[mossgiel]

Somewhat of a a newbie on this site, but have been using GPS for a few yrs now. IMHO if somethings worth using, then it's worth paying for!

Must be why I voted for the tenner option

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