At FOWA a few months ago, the Ordanance Survey (a taxpayer funded organization that handles postcode and general surveying in the UK) had a stand asking people to pay the typical exhorbitant amount of money (a few hundred pounds a year) to access the data their taxes already paid for.<p>Pretty much everyone at the conference doing anything in the geo space was using the 100MB file that gets uploaded to wikileaks every few weeks instead.