[Talk-GB] LiDAR in the UK

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Historically there have always been some attribution & other usage
restrictions with data from Land and Property Services. It's several years
since I last used any of this data in earnest, but at some point OSM-IE
were having quite detailed discussions about making some of them usable by
OSM (e.g., road names), but at least for map data there's probably an
element of keeping in step with OSI as well.

In general then, I'd tend to exercise extra care over some of this data,
and statements such as this one "attribution statement noted in ‘River
Basin LIDAR - Belfast City- Note.pdf’, acknowledging Cyient Europe Ltd,
must be included" (the actual text in that document under "attribution
statement" doesn't appear to be one). A quick scan over the other Lidar
datasets suggests they have fewer potential gotchas, but the DSMs are
really quite old. One good use case would be mapping streams through
woodland (most of the interesting remaining woods in NI are in incised
river valleys).

Owen Boswarva may be a bit more up-to-date on the status of geospatial Open
Data in Northern Ireland.

Jerry


On Sat, 27 Aug 2022 at 18:12, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nickerson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Regarding the NI attribution text: I'm reading this as simply the
> statement that they'd like you to use. This is entirely in line with the
> OGL licence (which we know is good for use in OSM) as the OGL reads:
>
> *"If the Information Provider does not provide a specific attribution
> statement, you must use the following:*
>
> * Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government
> Licence v3.0."*
>
> So yeah, in my view it's just giving the "specific attribution statement"
> and not altering the normal OGL with extra restrictions.
>
> https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
>
> Thanks
> Rob
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