[Talk-GB] Council Footpath data

[Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)]

On 30 May 2018 at 11:37, Adam Snape <adam.c.snape at gmail.com> wrote:
> Over the coming months I'm hoping to individually clarify licensing with all
> of the authorities which haven't explicitly, unambiguously and publicly
> licensed their RoW data under OGL3 (and, yes, I know that's most of them).
> I'll also try and get new or updated data where not currently available or
> several years old.

That sounds great. Some time ago I was planning to do something
similar, but have been side-tracked by other projects and have never
found the time. This is as far as I got:
http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/prow/progress/open-data

> In the slightly longer term I think our aim needs to be to persuade all
> authorities to proactively publish new versions of their data as open data,
> rather than individuals having to individually badger authorities to update
> their data. Under their Publication Schemes they should start doing this
> automatically once information is supplied the first time, but it seems that
> only a minority of authorities who have released data currently publish it
> proactively.

Indeed. Also, the Environmental Information Regulations (which PRoW
GIS data probably fall under, rather than FOI, though FOI Publication
Schemes still apply) also includes provision for councils to
proactively digitise and publish environmental data they hold --
whether requested or not-- but they don't seem to be making much
progress with this...

Anyway, Adam, I've just sent you a longer private message with some
more thoughts you might be interested in.

Robert.

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Robert Whittaker