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

[Russ Garrett]

I've fixed the wiki with that info now.

Russ

On Tue, 2 Feb 2021 at 20:39, Owen Boswarva <owen.boswarva at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> The wiki page is out of date.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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