[Talk-GB] Official cycle accident information released as raw data with easting/northing

Jonathan Bennett openstreetmap at jonno.cix.co.uk
Tue Mar 17 11:25:34 GMT 2009


David Earl wrote:

> My bet is they were produced by pointing at an OS map (especially as 
> they are grid refs not lat/lon) and are therefore OS derived. The DfT 
> may be happy for anyone to use them however they want, but the OS will 
> not be.

Giving the coordinates as gridrefs, and not lat/lon would be consistent
with that. It would be an interesting test case, though. There's nothing
in that data that would allow you to reconstruct a map in any way -- no
way type information or anything, just a location.

-- 
Jonathan (Jonobennett)




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