[Talk-GB] Copyright in OS-derived maps

David Woolley forums at david-woolley.me.uk
Tue Sep 3 13:53:41 UTC 2019


On 03/09/2019 12:31, Edward Bainton wrote:
> I've been sent a map by a local charity that looks after large swathes 
> of countryside near Peterborough. It's for their own internal use, 
> showing the extent of their estate. It's based on an OS map, and comes 
> with flags indicating Crown copyright thus:
> 
> /Reproduced by permission of Ordnance Survey on behalf of HMSO. ©Crown 
> copyright and database rights 2010. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey 
> licence number 00006035/

This sounds like a Land Registry or Planning map.  They are probably 
breaching the licence by even showing it to outsiders.  The red line 
will have been traced relative to OS features.

I would say definitely off limits, as this is the sort of map from which 
OS is now funded.




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