[OSM-talk] Breach of Copyright?

[edodd at billiau.net]

>

> Coincidentally I have just had a meeting with someone from one of the
> local councils who is interested in using OSM data for their online
> services. I brought up this issue and he explicitly said that the
> coordinates of the footpaths on the definitive map were derived from
> Ordnance Survey data. So this seems to be a definitive statement that you
> can't copy courses of paths from definitive maps.
>
> Nick
>

That applies to that Council. Someone else has already noted their council
had paid surveyors to do the footpath survey so their data would not be so
derived.