[Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

[Shaun McDonald]

Another option to the GPS data, would be to use Mapillary to provide the latest images of the roads, and automatically a GPS trace is included too. This would mean that the images could be used for us to map alongside a feed of the changes that are known. This also has the advantage in that other surrounding things can be mapped too, and gets around any derived copyright issues in the maps that are created based on OS data.

Shaun

On 5 Jul 2014, at 17:47, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi John,
> 
> The negativity, or least lack of enthusiasm, is partly due to the complexity of the issue. We'd love to have Highways Agency data as open data but if the data is based upon Ordnance Survey data this becomes a quite tricky. Normally you would have the data holder apply for a Exemption under the Public Sector Mapping Agreement (PSMA). Even then there's not much consensus in the GB community as to whether we can actually use the data.
> 
> As suggested, a better idea would be to have the Highways Agency provide us a list of upcoming projects and dates that they are expected to complete. If they have any GPS data we would be able to use that too :-)
> 
> Rob
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