[Talk-GB] Mapping the unloved and unwashed

[Peter Miller]

On 16 Dec 2008, at 10:08, Steve Hill wrote:

> Peter Miller wrote:
>> We all know about the OS licencing issues and so do councils! There  
>> is a real bun-fight between the OS Google and councils over  
>> licencing.
>> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/nov/20/ordnance-survey-google-maps
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> Ok, that's pretty interesting - it is good to see that the councils  
> are starting to realise how the licences can come back and bite  
> them.  The article mentioned that Google has changed their mapping  
> licence to make clear that it isn't claiming ownership of the data -  
> does this mean that their licence would now allow us to trace their  
> satellite photos?

Most certainly not. The reason we can't trace from Google's aerial  
photograph is because I understand that deriving mapping from it is  
specifically excluded. Ed Parsons confirmed that at the SOTM  
conference this year. All google are saying is that if one places a  
layer of OS data on top of google data then google don't claim  
ownership of that data, but I think they do retain the right to crawl  
it. the OS don't like that!

Here are some more reasons why Local Authorities might be interested  
in OSM. More of the same really ...

http://www.freeourdata.org.uk/blog/?p=256

http://www.edparsons.com/2008/09/ordnance-survey-and-the-google-maps-api/


Regards,



Peter


Regards,


Peter
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