[Tagging] Sourced from somewhere it shouldn't have been

Mike Harris mikh43 at googlemail.com
Thu Nov 5 09:11:05 GMT 2009


Excellent news ... I thought that the older 7th series were now legitimate
but hadn't realised how quickly the rectification had progressed! Thanks to
all responsible for the hard work ...

Mike Harris
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tagging-bounces at openstreetmap.org 
> [mailto:tagging-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Andy 
> Robinson (blackadder-lists)
> Sent: 05 November 2009 08:53
> To: 'Tag discussion,strategy and related tools'
> Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Tagging] Sourced from somewhere it shouldn't have been
> 
> Mike Harris wrote:
> >Sent: 05 November 2009 7:57 AM
> >To: 'Tag discussion,strategy and related tools'
> >Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org
> >Subject: Re: [Tagging] Sourced from somewhere it shouldn't have been
> >
> >Dave
> >
> >May be wise to be careful here! I am deliberately 
> cross-posting to 'talk'
> >group given the potential importance of the issue.
> >
> >Why do you assume that Ordnance Survey 7th Series mapping is 
> NOT out of 
> >copyright?
> >
> >As far as I know the Crown Copyright rule is 50 years.
> >
> >The 7th Series maps were published from 1952 to 1972 (with later 
> >revisions).
> >My clock says it is 2009 now (;>)
> >
> >So if the source mapping happened to be one of the older ones (would 
> >need to know which individual sheet and revision) it could 
> well be out 
> >of copyright and legitimate.
> >
> >I thought that the problem was more that the nice people at 
> OSM hadn't 
> >got round to doing the rectification etc. to make the older 
> 7th series 
> >mapping readily available as an overlay like the NPE.
> >
> >Mike Harris
> >
> 
> 
> You can find npe and 7th series 1 inch mapping plus 1:25,000 
> (2.5 inch to the mile) 1st series on the dev server at:
> 
> http://ooc.openstreetmap.org
> 
> The default view is NPE, switch to the others using the layer 
> selector. All three layers are available as a backcloth in 
> Potlatch. And with some fixing, hopefully all in JOSM soon.
> 
> NPE sheets are all out of copyright as are all the uploaded 
> 1:25k sheets. As far as I am aware the 7th series sheets so 
> far uploaded are only those that are out of copyright (some 
> in Scotland). The rest will only come on line with their 
> copyright expires. 
> 
> I'm happy to take questions related to the 1:25k 1st series 
> maps but can't answer questions on the others.
> 
> For more info on these series check out:
> 
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Out_of_copyright
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: tagging-bounces at openstreetmap.org 
> >> [mailto:tagging-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Dave F.
> >> Sent: 05 November 2009 03:03
> >> To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools
> >> Subject: [Tagging] Sourced from somewhere it shouldn't have been
> >>
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I've a railway that has source as from 7th series maps, 
> which aren't 
> >> out of copyright yet.
> >> I think the user meant NPE (when was it introduced into OSM?)
> >>
> >> I can remove the tag from the current way but how do I remove from 
> >> all the historic items?
> >> I remember this problem being discussed recently but I'm 
> damned if I 
> >> can find it.
> >>
> >> Cheers
> >> Dave F.
> >>
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