[Talk-GB] Import of UK SSSI data

[Henry Bush]

Hmmm, I see. I'll dig further into the licensing side of things before I go
any further.

Thanks for the pointers!

On Sat, 16 Nov 2019, 16:28 Chris Hill, <osm at raggedred.net> wrote:

> 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> 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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