You have to listen to this talk at it conversations because it sums up so much of what theirwork is trying to achieve. Well, let me re-phrase that big time, so much of what Schuyler Erle mentions links directly to what we are trying to achieve. The others are way to focussed on the polluting car and so have little foresight. And I wonder what Urry would have to say about that? There is actually one little phrase that I am not going to pull out accurately, but something like the car and the gps system are one of the ways forward for the future. Um. Excuse me, climate change, asthma…I won’t go on.

Here’s a snippet of Erle’s chat. He’s discussing the fabulous consume.net project.

“…now here are a bunch of people that are attempting to share resources, they are attempting in some ways to make the city a better place but the access that they can get to data in the Uk is basically terrible. The OS license terms and the license fees raise a barrier to entry that is so high that individuals, that community groups, non-governmental organisations are just completely left out in the cold and for one of the biggest and one of the best set up community networks in the world to have a node map with a bunch of dots on a white background is frankly an embarrassment.”

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