[OSM-talk] Breach of Copyright?

[Dave F.]

Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 25/09/09 14:30, Dave F. wrote:
>
>> The map he sent is titled as a Definitive Map. It has an OS underlay,
>> but the information laid on top is compiled from Council gathered info.
>> eg GPS survey equipment from an independent company employed to produce
>> the definitive maps.
>
> Do you know for absolute certainty that every single detail was 
> gathered from first principles like that? If it was then it is a very 
> unusual bit of local council mapping as they are not generally that 
> scrupulously careful...
Well... not /every /detail, no, but there was a report in the local 
newspaper:
"Two surveyors will be walking virtually every one of the 560 miles of 
footpath in the area."
And also in the Council produced pamphlet where two people were shown 
holding their very nice big yellow GPS units.

Isn't every council having to do the same to produce their Definitive Maps?
>
> The reason of course is that they have a license to do what they like 
> with OS data so it largely doesn't matter to them whether they derive 
> things from it (well at least until they try and overlay that data on 
> a google map and get nastygrams from the OS).
>
> Tom
>

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