[OSM-talk] Marketing OSM

[Richard Fairhurst]

David Groom wrote:

> One idea that did occur to me at the new year, was that many diaries in the
> UK contain an outline map of the UK with motorways and city / town names.
>
> We probably have all that data now within OSM
>
> It might be worthwhile someone talking to the map publishers to see if they
> want our data, and if so in what format.

Hm. I'm actually building that at present from my own data, that of  
other like-minded people, and US public domain  
(http://www.systemeD.net/carto/ukbasemap.html) - but as PD rather than  
CC-SA. OSM's licence is print-unfriendly so I wouldn't recommend  
anyone spends too much time on doing the same from OSM data. :(

Ordnance Survey does actually have an liberal licence policy for  
diary-type maps anyway:

"1:1 000 000 scale mapping – For publications that contain 'redrawn  
mapping' at a scale of 1:1 000 000 or less, a licence fee may not be  
payable provided the mapping is sourced from  1:1 000 000 scale  
Ordnance Survey mapping with a
similar specification to Ordnance Survey’s MiniScale dataset."

(http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/business/copyright/docs/D01308.pdf)

cheers
Richard