Ordnance Survey celebrates five-years of funding new ventures that use geography and open data - Directions Magazine

"In Oct 2009 Ordnance Survey opened its first GeoVation Challenge to identify and launch new ventures that had found innovative ways of using geography and open data to solve real-world problems. Out of 166 submissions, three were selected to share £22,000 in start-up funding and to receive Ordnance Survey’s ongoing support that would see their ideas made real. Ordnance Survey has since run six more GeoVation Challenges, and has so far created 28 new ventures, awarded £640,000 in funding, and is currently running a challenge with Land Registry to improve the way we do housing ..."