[Talk-GB] Natural England data

[Tom Chance]

Perhaps, David, you could upload the shapefiles somewhere so we could stick
them into Potlatch 2 for tracing purposes, with a wiki page to track
progress? I'd be very interested in having a look at it.

Tom


On 18 July 2012 20:53, Andy Robinson <ajrlists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On the whole yes as its OGL its fine for OSM. However remember to tag with
> the appropriate source/attribution. A word of warning though that some of
> the data may not be fully compliant yet so check the licence details for
> each data type before you use.****
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> Also PLEASE DO _*NOT*_ DO ANY BULK IMPORTS!****
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> So far I’ve used it to fix the Peak District boundary but nothing else. I
> think Ed Loach has used it a bit too.****
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> Cheers****
>
> Andy****
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> *From:* David Fisher [mailto:djfisher81 at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 18 July 2012 20:18
> *To:* talk-gb at openstreetmap.org
> *Subject:* [Talk-GB] Natural England data****
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> Hi all,
>
> I've recently come across the Natural England site, which has shapefiles
> for download of various category of open space (local/national nature
> reserve, SSSI, etc).
>
> The website states "From 1 April 2012 Natural England is making its
> publicly available Geographic Information datasets available for commercial
> and non-commercial reuse under the Open Government Licence. We are now able
> to use this licence, as we have secured copyright exemptions from Ordnance
> Survey under the Public Sector Mapping Agreement."  (
> http://www.gis.naturalengland.org.uk/pubs/gis/gis_register.asp)
>
> Does this allow the data to be used by OSM?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David Fisher.****
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