[OSM-talk] Ordnance Survey tries to reinforce its strangleholdover "derived" geographic data in the UK

[David Earl]

On 20/11/2008 17:22, Nick Whitelegg wrote:
> Again not 100% sure, but I'd presume that path *status* is  OK taken from 
> the definitive map, as the council is the source of that information, not 
> the OS.

I was also worried about the Council's own database copyright in its 
information. For a one off it probably wouldn't matter, but if we then 
started doing stuff from Council info, we might be contaminating things. 
I've generally tried to use only the evidence on the ground and approved 
sources like Yahoo.

David