[Talk-GB] Copyright in OS-derived maps

Jez Nicholson jez.nicholson at gmail.com
Wed Sep 4 14:26:20 UTC 2019


The curse of derived data! So much effort to be able to share the boundary
of a property. **sigh**

I added some words to
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey#Map_license  Feel free
to amend and/or question (in the discussion page).

On Tue, Sep 3, 2019 at 2:54 PM David Woolley <forums at david-woolley.me.uk>
wrote:

> 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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