[Talk-GB] UK Open Government Licence

[Andy Street]

On Fri, 24 Jan 2014 11:32:50 +0000
SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> For the sake of clarification:
> 
> Robert Whittaker's interpretation of the Ordnance Survey Open
> Government License is not widely accepted in the community.
> 
> Overall in the past 3 and a half years we have traced, imported or
> otherwise derived large quantities of data under this license. Mike
> Collinson spent considerable time discussing our use of the license
> with the Ordnance Survey on behalf of the OSM Foundation.

AIUI that agreement only covers datasets released by the Ordnance Survey
(with the exception of Code-Point Open), it does not cover other
organisations that choose to release data under the OS-OGL. Without
further clarification you cannot be certain why an organisation chose
OS-OGL over the OGL and if they consent to us using their data in that
way.

In the case of Norfolk I'd be inclined to contact them to ask for a
clarification of what the licence actually is; their website has it
listed as OS-OGL but data.gov.uk has it listed as OGL.

> As always it is worth noting that surveyed data are better than
> imports: this is particularly true of footpaths where the local
> council and OSGB data may be at variance with what is on the ground
> (as I discovered a while ago in Carmarthenshire). Using Open Data to
> establish whether an existing mapped path is a ProW is a different
> matter.

+1

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Regards,

Andy Street