<div dir="ltr"><div><div>A quick look at the EU code tells us:<br><br>"Member States should therefore make available, as a minimum and free of
charge, the services <u>for discovering and</u>, subject to certain specific
conditions, <u>viewing</u> spatial data sets."<br><br><a href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=OJ:L:2007:108:TOC">http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=OJ:L:2007:108:TOC</a><br><br></div>So you can look but not necessarily use under licence. That seems to depend on what each country decides to do. The missed a trick but this was over 10 years ago now when views were different.<br><br></div>Best,<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Rob</b></span><br></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 May 2018 at 00:21, Martijn van Exel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:m@rtijn.org" target="_blank">m@rtijn.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">INSPIRE sets the framework for geospatial (meta)data in the EU and requires member states to commit to having certain types of data available in a defined exchange format. When I was involved in this more closely, there was not the assumption that the data would be free (as in beer), and as far as I know the conditions of availability to citizens were not enshrined in the INSPIRE directive. <div><br></div><div>NL makes a lot of spatial data under INSPIRE freely available, see <a href="https://www.pdok.nl/en" target="_blank">https://www.pdok.nl/en</a></div><div><br><div id="m_6567295265034819999AppleMailSignature">Sent from my iPhone</div><div><div class="h5"><div><br>On May 2, 2018, at 17:10, Rob Nickerson <<a href="mailto:rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com" target="_blank">rob.j.nickerson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr">INSPIRE is an EU requirement. As far as I know the UK makes all their INSPIRE data open for free, although I am not sure if they had to under the EU rules of if they just decided to. See:<br><br><a href="https://data.gov.uk/location/inspire" target="_blank">https://data.gov.uk/location/<wbr>inspire</a><br><br><br clear="all"><div><div><div><div class="m_6567295265034819999gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><b>Rob</b></span><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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