[OSM-newbies] Trig points

[Al Girling]

Hi Agentmancuso,

Thanks for the reply, though is there any chance you can provide a
text/plain version of your email to avoid the eye watering HTML please?

On Sat, Sep 06, 2008 at 08:02:33PM BST, agentmancuso wrote:
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> not quite sure which bit of information you are asking about? If it's
> the <i>waypoint</i> number, that's just a random sequential tag
> allocated by the <a href="http://www.trigpointinguk.com/">T:UK</a>  (
> and shared with the <a href="http://www.bench-marks.org.uk/">Bench-Marks</a>
> site) and nobody there would object to it being used. But it has no
> other significance, so would be of little value for mapping. Flush
> Brackets are a different matter. OS are notoriously (and completely
> illegitimately) uptight about mapping copyright, but Flush Brackets
> numbers don't appear on maps. The numbers are also made freely
> available on <a
>  href="http://benchmarks.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/pls/htmldb/f?p=111:13:6255072357299077241::NO:13::">OS
> sites</a>. In any case, if the data (FB number) is derived from a <i>personal</i>
> visit to the trig, then none of this matters: the OS don't own the
> copyright on the actual numbers! <br>

Sorry if my question wasn't clear, but yes, it was info about the
waypoint I was after.

The tagging information from the Wiki gives tpuk_ref as an appropriate
tag for the waypoint number and I simply wished to provide as much
accurate tagging as possible.  If the waypoint is a random number as you
suggest then I agree it has no value for the map, but someone clearly
felt it valuable enough to create a tag for it.

If the waypoint is created by the folks from T:UK, am I at least free to
choose whether or not to include it in my tagging of trig points?

Toodle pip,

Al

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