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

[Nick Whitelegg]

>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.

I think the council data is public domain, as I distinctly recall on the 
West Sussex or Hampshire online ROW maps that it was "public domain 
information overlayed on copyrighted OS maps" or some statement to that 
effect. And if it isn't public domain, it really ought to be, as surely 
it's in both public and landowner interest to disseminate as widely as 
possible where the rights of way actually go.

Nick