[Talk-GB] help on downloading from data.gov data

[Jez Nicholson]

> Isn't that essentially what OSM does?  It uses its own proprietary feed format,
rather than WFS

Yes, absolutely. OSM is even more obtuse.

On Tue, 28 Sep 2021, 10:51 David Woolley, <forums at david-woolley.me.uk>
wrote:

> On 28/09/2021 08:17, Jez Nicholson wrote:
> > Ironic that the Government departments think they are making data easily
> > accessible by publishing WMS/WFS feeds.
>
> Isn't that essentially what OSM does?  It uses its own proprietary feed
> format, rather than WFS, but it certainly doesn't provide pre-selected
> extracts for each town or each feature type.
>
> Incidentally I'd have reservations about cross checking this against
> other data sources.  That feels like business use, which is not allowed
> by the standard licence.  I think the only acceptable use of cross
> checking might be to evaluate the completeness, without using it as a hint.
>
> Creating OSM is a business for copyright and database rights purposes.
>
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