[Talk-GB] Finding Unmapped public rights of way

[Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)]

On 27 July 2013 13:11, Dudley Ibbett <dudleyibbett at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I'm trying to make use of the row files on rowmaps for derbyshire and
> staffordshire and and merging these with and osm map file to then produce
> maps that can highlight which paths are and aren't mapped.  I can put the
> derbyshire file into JOSM and download parts of the area and merge them to
> create an osm file that I can then save locally and import into Maperative.

I assume that these digitised PRoW Maps from local councils are
released under the OS OpenData License. That being the case, please
note that Ordnance Survey have recently stated that their "OS OpenData
licence is not forward compatible with the ODC-By and ODbL" [1]. Hence
these datasets cannot currently be used as direct sources for
contributing to OSM.

Of course this doesn't prevent individuals generating data comparisons
and then using them to focus mapping efforts that make use of other
sources. And hopefully OS will be persuaded to amend their license, so
we can start making full use of these PRoW GIS datasets.

Robert.

[1] http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/os-open-data.html

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Robert Whittaker