http://martinstabe.disqus.com/enSat, 03 Mar 2007 09:29:56 -0000http://www.martinstabe.com/blog/2007/03/03/freedom-of-information-mashups-and-online-journalism/#comment-1928341<p>Thanks for pointing out the Environment Agency's idiocy. This is a part of government which has all this data about water and flooding yet refuses to let us see it. Why??</p><p>The only possible useful purpose for Crown Copyright is to see that people don't take a dataset and then alter data within it to their own ends. However, that can be sorted by having checksums (a single number generated by doing some maths on the data) - if you change the data, your checksum changes, and it's obvious because you can refer back to the original.</p><p>Other than that, CC is just restrictive - nothing more.</p>CharlesSat, 03 Mar 2007 09:29:56 -0000