[Talk-GB] What to use as source for UK Land Registry Polygons?

[Owen Boswarva]

The wiki page is out of date. The INSPIRE Index Polygons (including the OS
derived data in them) have been fully OGL since 1 July 2020.
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/inspire-data-to-be-shared-under-open-terms


On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 at 20:25, Dave Love <david.love at oxon.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2021-02-01 at 11:32:54 +0000, George Honeywood wrote:
> > The wiki suggests using `source=land_registry_index_polygons` [1]. I
> was using `source=inspire`, but I'll happily switch if there is
> consensus.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > George
> >
> > [1] - https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#United_Kingdom
>
> Yet according to
>
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Property_extents_in_the_United_Kingdom#INSPIRE_Land_Registry_index_polygons
>  they can't be used.  I don't understand why, as I can't see how the
> references support that against the clear OGL statement.  Does anyone
> understand this?  I assume just using them to count divisions for
> terrace buildings, for instance, is "use" rather than "reuse" (which
> doesn't seem to be defined), not even requiring the OS copyright
> statement.
>
> There's also https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/INSPIRE.  It's not
> clear if it's referring to the same thing, but it's at least confusing
> to have the separate pages.
>
> [Though they seem potentially useful for dividing buildings I found,
> when I checked a few cases, that the polygons don't always exist where
> there are (now?) houses, and sometimes don't obviously make sense with
> what's on the ground.]
>
>
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