[Talk-GB] Local Authority rights of way information

[Andy Townsend]

On 21/12/2016 11:32, Dave F wrote:
> Interesting. Under what license to you believe East Riding issued the 
> data that ROWmaps is using?

The actual page at the rowmaps site is:

http://www.rowmaps.com/datasets/EY/


It seems to say (and I'm paraphrasing) "ERYC say it's Crown Copyright, 
but the OS say 'All data exempted by Ordnance Survey is now covered by 
the Open Government Licence (OGL)' [but they don't say what data is 
exempted]" and then says "So it's possible for you to use this data 
provided you say that it is public sector information released by the 
council of East Riding of Yorkshire under the Open Government Licence".

I'm not convinced it's possible to infer the one from the other without 
much more detail than is on that page.   That doesn't mean that 
somewhere those details don't exist - it just means that I wouldn't add 
data from rowmaps to OSM without more licence details.

However, to answer the original question:

1) Yes, some local authorities have made explicit releases of genuinely 
open data.

2) If if they haven't, and rights-of-way maps are encumbered by other 
licences, the council's "definitive statement" may well be admissable 
(something like "FP123 starts at the junction of X road and Y road and 
runs across the field to the gate at the north of Z house").

Best Regards,

Andy



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