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

[Mike Harris]

Great news ... I underestimated my more technically competent colleagues ... But it does seem to confirm that (appropriately old) 7th srs OS mapping is now out of copyright and legit!

Mike Harris
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [mailto:avarab at gmail.com] 
> Sent: 05 November 2009 08:53
> To: Mike Harris
> Cc: Tag discussion,strategy and related tools; talk at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] Sourced from somewhere it 
> shouldn't have been
> 
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 7:56 AM, Mike Harris 
> <mikh43 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> The 7th series is being rectified and already available for 
> use as a backdrop in editors:
> http://ooc.openstreetmap.org/?zoom=12&lat=56.35194&lon=-4.9698
> 2&layers=0B00