[Talk-GB] Database of British and Irish hills

[Adam Snape]

Hi,

Sadly, despite the licence I think that much of the positional and
(especially) the height information is unsuitable for OSM as some of it is
derived from OS mapping (or otherwise from published lists themselves
derived from OS Mapping)
http://www.hills-database.co.uk/database_notes.html#mapinfo_gb
and thus the OS could legitimately claim a violation of their database
right.

If they were able to licence the raw GPS/height submitted by walkers and
others involved in the project then that could be useful.

Kind regards,

Adam

On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 23:33, Silent Spike <silentspike100 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I recently came across the DoBIH
> <http://www.hills-database.co.uk/downloads.html> which you can see is
> licensed under CC BY 3.0.
>
> This could be a valuable source of accurate height and position
> information for "natural = peak" nodes in the UK + Ireland (maybe even an
> import candidate).
>
> Would anyone be interested in requesting permission following the wiki
> guidelines <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Getting_permission>?
> I'd do it myself, but it would probably be more professional coming from
> someone else.
>
> Regards
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