[OSM-talk] State of the Map talk and OS copyright question

[Nick Black]

Or, as you (Nick) work for a university, you should be able to use
EDINA.  As I remember it, the EDINA license allows accademics to use
OS data for non-commercial purpose.  Please check the license first
though...

http://edina.ac.uk/



On 7/10/07, Steve Coast <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>
> On 10 Jul 2007, at 09:54, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
>
> >
> > Hello everyone,
> >
> > As part of my SOTM session I'd like to use an example of some of the
> > advantages of OSM mapping versus Ordnance Survey, using the Lake
> > District
> > mapping weekend as an example. What I propose to do is show a
> > Freemap or
> > Osmarender map of the area and mark on - for the purposes of the
> > talk - the
> > position of the footpaths according to the OS.
> >
> > I guess this is technically breaking copyright but would it be OK
> > just for the
> > purposes of the session? It would be a bit difficult to illustrate
> > the point
> > otherwise.
>
> Don't OS have some magical scheme for letting you use one or two
> images? wikipedia use it.
>
>
> or they _used to_, now some clever clogs has put up an NPE image instead
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance_Survey
>
> lolcat
>
> have fun,
>
> SteveC | steve at asklater.com | http://www.asklater.com/steve/
>
>
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