<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Good catch there Adam 🤔 Does this suggest they themselves are violating OS licenses? Their database is referenced on wikipedia a bit, could be quite the licensing rabbit hole.</div><div><br></div><div>Regarding your point Steven, I did notice this in the section linked by Adam:</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Decimal heights from LIDAR can be identified by the absence of an entry in the Survey field.</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Which links to <a href="http://www.hills-database.co.uk/database_notes.html#survey">the following description of the survey field</a> where your questions appear to be answered.</div><div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 7:28 AM Steven Horner <<a href="mailto:steven@stevenhorner.com">steven@stevenhorner.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Hello,<div><br></div><div>Is that true though for the hills with details in the survey column, they have been measured with the instruments listed, eg. Abney level, Leica Disto D510, etc. If they don't have anything recorded in the survey column you would have to presume they are derived from OS mapping as there is no evidence to the contrary. Although does the survey equipment only record height or also position?</div></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 12:20 AM Adam Snape <<a href="mailto:adam.c.snape@gmail.com" target="_blank">adam.c.snape@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Hi,</div><div><br></div><div>Sadly, despite the licence I think that much of the positional and (especially) the height information is unsuitable for OSM as some of it is derived from OS mapping (or otherwise from published lists themselves derived from OS Mapping) <a href="http://www.hills-database.co.uk/database_notes.html#mapinfo_gb" target="_blank">http://www.hills-database.co.uk/database_notes.html#mapinfo_gb</a><br></div><div> and thus the OS could legitimately claim a violation of their database right. <br></div><div><br></div><div>If they were able to licence the raw GPS/height submitted by walkers and others involved in the project then that could be useful.</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Adam<br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 23:33, Silent Spike <<a href="mailto:silentspike100@gmail.com" target="_blank">silentspike100@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">I recently came across the <a href="http://www.hills-database.co.uk/downloads.html" target="_blank">DoBIH</a> which you can see is licensed under CC BY 3.0.<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>This could be a valuable source of accurate height and position information for "natural = peak" nodes in the UK + Ireland (maybe even an import candidate).</div><div><br></div><div>Would anyone be interested in requesting permission following the <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Getting_permission" target="_blank">wiki guidelines</a>? I'd do it myself, but it would probably be more professional coming from someone else.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards</div></div>
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