[Talk-GB] Warwickshire County Council releases aerial imagery

[Barry Cornelius]

On Sat, 8 Feb 2014, Rob Nickerson wrote:
> Warwickshire CC are documenting it at http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/gis 
> At the moment they seem to have gone for the approach of saying if it's our data it's OGL, and if it's OS's data then it's the
> Public Sector End User Licence. Obviously this is frustrating as it requires the user to know who's data is who's, but Jonathan
> (from the councils GIS team) informs us that their contract with the aerial imagery company used in this latest layer allows them to
> share the data (i.e. by making the council the data owner it is available under OGL and has no OS derived data).

I guess you are not interested in the data that Warwickshire County 
Council has derived from Ordnance Survey data.  However, let me make one 
comment about this.

I note that such data is being released with the "Public Sector INSPIRE 
WMS End User Licence".  The WCC /gis web page links to this web page which 
describes the licence: 
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/licensing/licences/web-mapping-service-end-user-licence.html?utm_source=Web%2Bmapping%2Bservice%2Bviewer&utm_medium=Redirect&utm_term=wmseul&utm_campaign=INSPIRE

As you know I've been in contact with local authorities concerning release 
of their data about public rights of way.  Occasionally, they suggest 
releasing the data to me with a "Public End User Licence".

These two licences are similar.  I don't regard these licences as Open. 
As far as I can see, there are no clauses in these licences that allow me 
to transform their data into another format; allow me to publish these new 
materials on a web site; and allow me to provide an end-user licence for 
others to use these new materials.

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