[Talk-GB] Import of UK SSSI data

[Chris Hill]

I think there may be a problem here. The web page describing the data 
says "© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data". Many 
public bodies suffer from the viral OS copyright problem, where the data 
is based on OS mapping data and OS have claimed copyright over the 
geodata element of such data in the past.

You need to be sure this is not the case before you use any of these 
datasets in OSM.

-- 
cheers
Chris Hill (chillly)

On 16/11/2019 15:30, Henry Bush wrote:
> Sorry, yes, the source of the data is the Natural England API:
>
> https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=f10cbb4425154bfda349ccf493487a80
> https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/f10cbb4425154bfda349ccf493487a80_0/
>
> The data is freely usable, so there shouldn't be any licensing issues.
>
> On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 at 15:24, Philip Barnes <phil at trigpoint.me.uk 
> <mailto:phil at trigpoint.me.uk>> wrote:
>
>     What is the source of the data you are planning to import?
>
>     Remember wikipedia is not a useable source under OSM licensing terms.
>
>     Phil (trigpoint)
>
>
>     On Sat, 2019-11-16 at 15:12 +0000, Henry Bush wrote:
>     > Hello all,
>     >
>     > (I've sent this to both the talk-gb and imports mailing lists)
>     >
>     > This is just a heads-up: I'm thinking about importing the data about
>     > UK SSSI areas into openstreetmap.
>     > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_of_Special_Scientific_Interest
>     >
>     > I've had a quick look at a few, and none of them seemed to be marked
>     > on the map. If I go ahead with the import, I'd do a much more
>     > thorough investigation first. This mail is simply a prompt for
>     > discussion as to whether people think it's a good idea.
>     >
>     > At the moment I'm still in the research phase. I've started
>     > collecting related links on a wiki page:
>     >
>     > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Spookypeanut/SSSIBot
>     >
>     > NB: this page is really just bookmarks for me at this stage. If I go
>     > ahead I'll make a proper, more informative page.
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     > 
>

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