[Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

[John Baker]

Rob,

To be fair when I did post that there had been a lack of interest. I asked could we use the OS maps we currently use and nothing. 
I asked what people do currently and nothing.
You are the first to say that this could/should be ok. 

I am glad to see that someone is using this approach currently.

This is about getting a process in place so they use the correct data. They have many types of data and we just need them to use the correct one (i.e Opendata) so we can map with confidence. 
There was a desire to get the correct data so we can use it. He didn't really understand and thought everything was ok (it is PD..., etc) I said I need to check as we cannot use all different types of copyright material some OS stuff could/should be ok. They have hundreds of different plans hopefully it shouldn't be too much of an issue to use/create another one.

I will speak to them next week to see what I can sort out.

John

Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2014 21:19:55 +0100
Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM
From: rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com
To: rovastar at hotmail.com; talk-gb at openstreetmap.org

On 5 July 2014 19:20, John Baker <rovastar at hotmail.com> wrote:




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I'll let them them know about the copyright situation (which I was fully aware from day one was a concern) and there is no real interest from the OSM community for establishing this.



John,

Please don't tell the Highways Agency that as it is *not* the case. The blame lies with the Ordnance Survey and their reluctance to make it easy for public sector bodies to release map data based on their products. I would rather you highlight that to Highways Agency so that they know where the real blame lies.


And yes, if they have maps that are based on OS OpenData (for example the OS StreetView maps) then I would love to see them. This is how we are working with Birmingham City Council to get maps of their proposed 20mph zones.


Perhaps step one is to find out what they have.

Rob


 		 	   		  
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