Policy paper
  
  
    MasterMap announcement: narrative
   
 
  
    
        
    This narrative accompanies the government's announcement on releasing the OS MasterMap.
     
   
  
    
        
      
      This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government
      
      
  
    
      
          
    
  
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            Key parts of Ordnance Survey’s (OS) highly detailed OS MasterMap are being made
completely open under the Open Government Licence (OGL), with the remaining
data being made freely available up to a threshold of transactions. This work will
release £130m pa of economic value.
 
         
       
      
  
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      Published 13 June 2018