[Talk-GB] Council Footpath data

[Chris Hill]

Robert,

thanks for chasing the East Riding of Yorkshire council to receive their 
rights of way data licenced as OGL. I failed to get this but your 
tenacity, knowledge and skilful wording made the difference. Thanks again.

Chris


On 30/05/2018 22:47, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
> 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.
>

-- 
cheers
Chris Hill (chillly)