[OSM-legal-talk] UK Public Rights of Way

[Antony Scott]

Re: OS derivation - interestingly, in the course of a long conversation and
a couple of email exchanges, the officer at the council did not raise this
as an issue. The understanding I have is that the data flow is the other way
round - ie that the council updates the OS with incremental changes and the
OS update their mapping. The council's digital map is the result of an
incomplete exercise in digitisation which they now have access to
internally, but is not available externally. It is this resource, which
appears to be council derived, that I would like to get hold of. Ideally by
persuasion, if we can persuade the council that it would be better to have
this data in the public domain than not.

As to the 1956 version of the definitive map being out of copright - good
point, but how could I get a copy of it? It is a paper version of course,
available for inspection at the council's offices. I suppose I could take a
camera, or just ask if I could have a copy.... it does date from 1956
though, so how much use it will be is another question.

Antony
2009/9/17 Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net>

>
> antonys wrote:
> > I'm engaged in a discussion with my local authority,
> > from whom I am trying to get a digital version of the
> > Public Rights of Way map (PROW) for use on OSM.
>
> It'll almost certainly be OS-derived and therefore not suitable for OSM,
> I'm
> afraid. Even if they wanted to release it, the OS wouldn't hear of it.
>
> cheers
> Richard
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