Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Walsall mapping party

2014-07-03 Thread Andy Robinson
Matthijs,

 

Not sure if it was just you and I mapping tonight? hopefully there will be 
others at the pub to join you. Unfortunately I now can’t stay late so I plan to 
do a little mapping as planned but will not now make it to the pub afterwards 
unfortunately.

 

Cheers

Andy

 

From: Rob Nickerson [mailto:rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com] 
Sent: 02 July 2014 19:16
To: Matthijs Melissen
Cc: talk-gb-westmidlands; Andy Robinson
Subject: Re: [Talk-gb-westmidlands] Walsall mapping party

 

I cannot make it this month as I'm stuck at a work event. Was hoping to get 
some mapping done here but looks like its going to be long days :-( 

Rob

On 2 Jul 2014 18:53, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote:

On 2 July 2014 12:39, Andy Robinson ajrli...@gmail.com wrote:
 I’ll be mapping an area on the east side, either just inside the ring road,
 if I get a chance to add some buildings before Thursday, or just outside the
 ring road if not (as I can clean up Mike Duffy’s prior tracing).

Ok, then I will follow up Brian's work in the town centre.

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[Talk-GB] Newbie hello

2014-07-03 Thread Stuart Reynolds
Hi all,

Just joined the mailing list.

I've been editing small bits of data here and there for a while, although I'm 
still a newbie at this. I work for traveline south east  anglia and, along 
with colleagues in some other traveline regions, we have just adopted OSM as 
our base mapping layer. I will undoubtedly be more active now as we look to add 
a number of bus lanes / bus gates where these aren't already in the data, and I 
will no doubt be trespassing on your time asking a number of dumb newbie-type 
questions (in the newbie mailing list, naturally!)

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Re: [Talk-GB] Newbie hello

2014-07-03 Thread Richard Symonds
Marvellous Stuart! Glad to have you aboard.

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On 3 July 2014 16:02, Stuart Reynolds stu...@travelinesoutheast.org.uk
wrote:

  Hi all,



 Just joined the mailing list.



 I’ve been editing small bits of data here and there for a while, although
 I’m still a newbie at this. I work for traveline south east  anglia and,
 along with colleagues in some other traveline regions, we have just adopted
 OSM as our base mapping layer. I will undoubtedly be more active now as we
 look to add a number of bus lanes / bus gates where these aren’t already in
 the data, and I will no doubt be trespassing on your time asking a number
 of dumb newbie-type questions (in the newbie mailing list, naturally!)



 Cheers

 Stuart



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[Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

2014-07-03 Thread John Baker
Hi,

I have been talking to the Highways Agency who are keen to get more recent 
changes on OSM. They want to get all the new roads added and therefore added to 
the routers.
(the initial contact was http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=25553 
if you want a little background)

Things like:
http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/road-projects/A23-Handcross-to-Warninglid

As contact has been made I have been discussing how best to get the plans of 
the works and the proper dialogue for the relevant changes (e.g. more 
interested in new roads rather than minor works/roadworks and road widening) 
and a timeline (project  under construction now, project 2 completed, etc)

I was hoping to upload these plans somewhere so they could be traced by people.

The first thing I am worried about is the copyright of the various plans. 
Some/many seem to be derived from OS maps.

Now I am no expert on the copyright situation here and dialogue is difficult 
they know little about OSM really. He just said we release the plans and they 
are public domain.

Now they apparently have hundreds of plans. And only choose to release 1 on the 
website (if at all) these can be 

http://www.highways.gov.uk/publications/a23-handcross-to-warninglid-plan-of-approved-scheme/
http://www.highways.gov.uk/publications/a45a46-tollbar-end-improvement-proposed-scheme-plan/

We could in theory get access to other plans of the works.

Does anyone know what legally I can use (really so I/we can republish/upload it 
so we can use them as imagery)?
Would plan derived from the current OS map we can use be ok? Are those more 
detailed ones ok?

I know legal stuff is a minefield but I am hoping someone can point me in the 
correct direction.

Once the legal hurdle has been overcome the idea is to setup a process stream 
so they can let me/us know what is happening (a simple spreadsheet or 
something) and get it added to OSM quickly.

I have never dealt with any organisation before for getting things into OSM so 
I am a little lost on the best way to proceed so any advice/help will be useful.

Cheers,

John







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Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

2014-07-03 Thread Andy Allan
On 3 July 2014 17:51, John Baker rovas...@hotmail.com wrote:
 He just said we release the plans and
 they are public domain.

Public Domain (British English, especially Government and in the
Courts): Information known by the public, could be under any kind of
copyright
Public Domain (US English): Information available for unrestricted reuse.

So you could say The contents of all the Harry Potter books are in
the Public Domain and in the UK that just means the general public
knows what's in the books, rather than anyone having permission to
upload them to Project Gutenberg :-)

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Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

2014-07-03 Thread Chris Hill

On 03/07/14 17:51, John Baker wrote:
The first thing I am worried about is the copyright of the various 
plans. Some/many seem to be derived from OS maps.


A legitimate concern.


Now I am no expert on the copyright situation here and dialogue is 
difficult they know little about OSM really. He just said we release 
the plans and they are public domain.


There is no mechanism in the UK for a body like the Highways Agency to 
release data as PD. That is a mechanism used in countries like the US. 
In the UK the info would have to be licensed using a specific licence, 
such as the Open Government Licence. If the plans are based on OS maps 
then OS would have to agree to release this, according to OS's 
interpretation of copyright law. OS probably will not agree to this, but 
it is worth asking :-).


Without a suitably agreed licence we cannot trace such plans into OSM. 
You could visit the site and get GPS traces  photos to add such works 
to OSM, which is usually what happens as soon as a new road gets opened.


I'd be interested if the Highway's Agency have opened new roads and they 
are not included in OSM very soon after. That seems to me to be 
something we are pretty good at.


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Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

2014-07-03 Thread John Baker
Yeah I know he probably didn't understand the implications/view points on it. I 
should have explained that better, rather than just ...
Anyway he was talking about open source, etc and he meant it in the (modern) 
open source style of public domain.
But the point was I didn't believe him that we could just republish it. So I am 
wanting to know what we can use.

(actually the guy I spoke to didn't sound like he was even from the UK... - 
Australian maybe but that is whole different story)

 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 18:05:55 +0100
 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM
 From: gravityst...@gmail.com
 To: rovas...@hotmail.com
 CC: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
 
 On 3 July 2014 17:51, John Baker rovas...@hotmail.com wrote:
  He just said we release the plans and
  they are public domain.
 
 Public Domain (British English, especially Government and in the
 Courts): Information known by the public, could be under any kind of
 copyright
 Public Domain (US English): Information available for unrestricted reuse.
 
 So you could say The contents of all the Harry Potter books are in
 the Public Domain and in the UK that just means the general public
 knows what's in the books, rather than anyone having permission to
 upload them to Project Gutenberg :-)
 
 Cheers,
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Re: [Talk-GB] Newbie hello

2014-07-03 Thread gianfranco gliozzo
Welcome onboard.
Gianfra


On 3 July 2014 17:11, Richard Symonds richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk
wrote:

 Marvellous Stuart! Glad to have you aboard.

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 United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia
 movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who
 operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects).

 *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control
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 On 3 July 2014 16:02, Stuart Reynolds stu...@travelinesoutheast.org.uk
 wrote:

  Hi all,



 Just joined the mailing list.



 I’ve been editing small bits of data here and there for a while, although
 I’m still a newbie at this. I work for traveline south east  anglia and,
 along with colleagues in some other traveline regions, we have just adopted
 OSM as our base mapping layer. I will undoubtedly be more active now as we
 look to add a number of bus lanes / bus gates where these aren’t already in
 the data, and I will no doubt be trespassing on your time asking a number
 of dumb newbie-type questions (in the newbie mailing list, naturally!)



 Cheers

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Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

2014-07-03 Thread John Baker

Yeah I know we are pretty good at adding them. But this discussion started with 
the HA because there were roads that were not on OSM.

It was this project that he was working on.
http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/road-projects/a23-handcross-to-warninglid/

So I personally added this in a rough way based on the descriptions from him 
who was on site at the time and the plans that were there (I didn't trace them 
just looked at them).

I don't (for a change) want to get into conversation about tracing imagery vs. 
doing it by hand. The point is what can we use.

My thought were that if there plans were based on the OS streetview (rather 
than the more detailed ones) then we could use them. 


 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 18:23:34 +0100
 From: o...@raggedred.net
 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM
 
 On 03/07/14 17:51, John Baker wrote:
  The first thing I am worried about is the copyright of the various 
  plans. Some/many seem to be derived from OS maps.
 
 A legitimate concern.
 
  Now I am no expert on the copyright situation here and dialogue is 
  difficult they know little about OSM really. He just said we release 
  the plans and they are public domain.
 
 There is no mechanism in the UK for a body like the Highways Agency to 
 release data as PD. That is a mechanism used in countries like the US. 
 In the UK the info would have to be licensed using a specific licence, 
 such as the Open Government Licence. If the plans are based on OS maps 
 then OS would have to agree to release this, according to OS's 
 interpretation of copyright law. OS probably will not agree to this, but 
 it is worth asking :-).
 
 Without a suitably agreed licence we cannot trace such plans into OSM. 
 You could visit the site and get GPS traces  photos to add such works 
 to OSM, which is usually what happens as soon as a new road gets opened.
 
 I'd be interested if the Highway's Agency have opened new roads and they 
 are not included in OSM very soon after. That seems to me to be 
 something we are pretty good at.
 
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Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

2014-07-03 Thread Dan S
You know, rather than thinking about automatically importing any of
their data into OSM, my intuition is that given the concerns about OS
copyright, plus how much OSMers enjoy mapping new features, I'd
suggest using their data to create a web feed of Hot new roads for
mappers to go and survey! - I bet they'd all be mapped within a week
;)

Dan

2014-07-03 18:41 GMT+01:00 John Baker rovas...@hotmail.com:

 Yeah I know we are pretty good at adding them. But this discussion started
 with the HA because there were roads that were not on OSM.

 It was this project that he was working on.
 http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/road-projects/a23-handcross-to-warninglid/

 So I personally added this in a rough way based on the descriptions from him
 who was on site at the time and the plans that were there (I didn't trace
 them just looked at them).

 I don't (for a change) want to get into conversation about tracing imagery
 vs. doing it by hand. The point is what can we use.

 My thought were that if there plans were based on the OS streetview (rather
 than the more detailed ones) then we could use them.


 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 18:23:34 +0100
 From: o...@raggedred.net
 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org

 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

 On 03/07/14 17:51, John Baker wrote:
  The first thing I am worried about is the copyright of the various
  plans. Some/many seem to be derived from OS maps.

 A legitimate concern.
 
  Now I am no expert on the copyright situation here and dialogue is
  difficult they know little about OSM really. He just said we release
  the plans and they are public domain.

 There is no mechanism in the UK for a body like the Highways Agency to
 release data as PD. That is a mechanism used in countries like the US.
 In the UK the info would have to be licensed using a specific licence,
 such as the Open Government Licence. If the plans are based on OS maps
 then OS would have to agree to release this, according to OS's
 interpretation of copyright law. OS probably will not agree to this, but
 it is worth asking :-).

 Without a suitably agreed licence we cannot trace such plans into OSM.
 You could visit the site and get GPS traces  photos to add such works
 to OSM, which is usually what happens as soon as a new road gets opened.

 I'd be interested if the Highway's Agency have opened new roads and they
 are not included in OSM very soon after. That seems to me to be
 something we are pretty good at.

 --
 Cheers, Chris
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Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

2014-07-03 Thread Shaun McDonald
Maybe a simple method is to use the OSM notes system, which is what the feature 
was designed for?

Shaun

On 3 Jul 2014, at 19:10, Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com wrote:

 You know, rather than thinking about automatically importing any of
 their data into OSM, my intuition is that given the concerns about OS
 copyright, plus how much OSMers enjoy mapping new features, I'd
 suggest using their data to create a web feed of Hot new roads for
 mappers to go and survey! - I bet they'd all be mapped within a week
 ;)
 
 Dan
 
 2014-07-03 18:41 GMT+01:00 John Baker rovas...@hotmail.com:
 
 Yeah I know we are pretty good at adding them. But this discussion started
 with the HA because there were roads that were not on OSM.
 
 It was this project that he was working on.
 http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/road-projects/a23-handcross-to-warninglid/
 
 So I personally added this in a rough way based on the descriptions from him
 who was on site at the time and the plans that were there (I didn't trace
 them just looked at them).
 
 I don't (for a change) want to get into conversation about tracing imagery
 vs. doing it by hand. The point is what can we use.
 
 My thought were that if there plans were based on the OS streetview (rather
 than the more detailed ones) then we could use them.
 
 
 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 18:23:34 +0100
 From: o...@raggedred.net
 To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
 
 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM
 
 On 03/07/14 17:51, John Baker wrote:
 The first thing I am worried about is the copyright of the various
 plans. Some/many seem to be derived from OS maps.
 
 A legitimate concern.
 
 Now I am no expert on the copyright situation here and dialogue is
 difficult they know little about OSM really. He just said we release
 the plans and they are public domain.
 
 There is no mechanism in the UK for a body like the Highways Agency to
 release data as PD. That is a mechanism used in countries like the US.
 In the UK the info would have to be licensed using a specific licence,
 such as the Open Government Licence. If the plans are based on OS maps
 then OS would have to agree to release this, according to OS's
 interpretation of copyright law. OS probably will not agree to this, but
 it is worth asking :-).
 
 Without a suitably agreed licence we cannot trace such plans into OSM.
 You could visit the site and get GPS traces  photos to add such works
 to OSM, which is usually what happens as soon as a new road gets opened.
 
 I'd be interested if the Highway's Agency have opened new roads and they
 are not included in OSM very soon after. That seems to me to be
 something we are pretty good at.
 
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Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

2014-07-03 Thread John Baker






I am a little surprised at the negativity. I would have thought it would be 
welcomed that the highway agency want to engage with OSM to help get the most 
up-to-date map available. I thought we prided ourselves of having the most 
up-to-date map.

We currently have roads under construction (and proposed but I have avoided 
adding these with my chats with the HA as things can change) in OSM.

I am confused as how you think people get these into OSM in the first place. 
Often they already use sources (I see it in the source tags often and I have 
been looking over the last few weeks at many of these proposed and constructed 
roads to get a feel about what the data is like) like the highway agency for 
England for the major roads.

What I want to do is streamline and improve this process as mappers in the UK 
(it might not be you) do use these resources already. And often they guess from 
the information available if proper detailed aligned detailed plans existed 
that would be much better and easier too. Maybe these mappers are not on this 
list. *shrug*

If there was a system/process in place that had accurate plans (allowed 
copyright) and timelines from an authorised source when construction began, 
when the road is opened, etc. We could use this. How we use it is a different 
matter - maybe someone wants to survey it, maybe someone wants to trace it.

I have visions of mappers jumping fences and running under the cover of 
darkness down half built roads with their expensive GPS devices just to get the 
info in OSM. 

Personally I think already showing on the map a road under construction is way 
more informative that simply adding a note. Once it opens then someone can make 
it 'live'.

I am not automatically importing anything here. It is not about that.

Maybe it is just down to how much OSMers enjoy mapping new features in their 
area.


 From: sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk
 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 20:30:15 +0100
 To: danstowell+...@gmail.com
 CC: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM
 
 Maybe a simple method is to use the OSM notes system, which is what the 
 feature was designed for?
 
 Shaun
 
 On 3 Jul 2014, at 19:10, Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  You know, rather than thinking about automatically importing any of
  their data into OSM, my intuition is that given the concerns about OS
  copyright, plus how much OSMers enjoy mapping new features, I'd
  suggest using their data to create a web feed of Hot new roads for
  mappers to go and survey! - I bet they'd all be mapped within a week
  ;)
  
  Dan
  
  2014-07-03 18:41 GMT+01:00 John Baker rovas...@hotmail.com:
  
  Yeah I know we are pretty good at adding them. But this discussion started
  with the HA because there were roads that were not on OSM.
  
  It was this project that he was working on.
  http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/road-projects/a23-handcross-to-warninglid/
  
  So I personally added this in a rough way based on the descriptions from 
  him
  who was on site at the time and the plans that were there (I didn't trace
  them just looked at them).
  
  I don't (for a change) want to get into conversation about tracing imagery
  vs. doing it by hand. The point is what can we use.
  
  My thought were that if there plans were based on the OS streetview (rather
  than the more detailed ones) then we could use them.
  
  
  Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 18:23:34 +0100
  From: o...@raggedred.net
  To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
  
  Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM
  
  On 03/07/14 17:51, John Baker wrote:
  The first thing I am worried about is the copyright of the various
  plans. Some/many seem to be derived from OS maps.
  
  A legitimate concern.
  
  Now I am no expert on the copyright situation here and dialogue is
  difficult they know little about OSM really. He just said we release
  the plans and they are public domain.
  
  There is no mechanism in the UK for a body like the Highways Agency to
  release data as PD. That is a mechanism used in countries like the US.
  In the UK the info would have to be licensed using a specific licence,
  such as the Open Government Licence. If the plans are based on OS maps
  then OS would have to agree to release this, according to OS's
  interpretation of copyright law. OS probably will not agree to this, but
  it is worth asking :-).
  
  Without a suitably agreed licence we cannot trace such plans into OSM.
  You could visit the site and get GPS traces  photos to add such works
  to OSM, which is usually what happens as soon as a new road gets opened.
  
  I'd be interested if the Highway's Agency have opened new roads and they
  are not included in OSM very soon after. That seems to me to be
  something we are pretty good at.
  
  --
  Cheers, Chris
  user: chillly
  
  
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Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

2014-07-03 Thread Dan S
OK sorry, I shouldn't have said automatically importing, that was a
misrepresentation. But I didn't intend negativity, I thought I was
offering a positive suggestion of how to work with their data! Yes of
course the news in your email was great to see, it would definitely be
lovely to have their plans as an imagery layer. And good point about
the under-construction roads.

Dan

2014-07-03 21:36 GMT+01:00 John Baker rovas...@hotmail.com:
 I am a little surprised at the negativity. I would have thought it would be
 welcomed that the highway agency want to engage with OSM to help get the
 most up-to-date map available. I thought we prided ourselves of having the
 most up-to-date map.

 We currently have roads under construction (and proposed but I have avoided
 adding these with my chats with the HA as things can change) in OSM.

 I am confused as how you think people get these into OSM in the first place.
 Often they already use sources (I see it in the source tags often and I have
 been looking over the last few weeks at many of these proposed and
 constructed roads to get a feel about what the data is like) like the
 highway agency for England for the major roads.

 What I want to do is streamline and improve this process as mappers in the
 UK (it might not be you) do use these resources already. And often they
 guess from the information available if proper detailed aligned detailed
 plans existed that would be much better and easier too. Maybe these mappers
 are not on this list. *shrug*

 If there was a system/process in place that had accurate plans (allowed
 copyright) and timelines from an authorised source when construction began,
 when the road is opened, etc. We could use this. How we use it is a
 different matter - maybe someone wants to survey it, maybe someone wants to
 trace it.

 I have visions of mappers jumping fences and running under the cover of
 darkness down half built roads with their expensive GPS devices just to get
 the info in OSM.

 Personally I think already showing on the map a road under construction is
 way more informative that simply adding a note. Once it opens then someone
 can make it 'live'.

 I am not automatically importing anything here. It is not about that.

 Maybe it is just down to how much OSMers enjoy mapping new features in
 their area.


 From: sh...@shaunmcdonald.me.uk
 Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 20:30:15 +0100
 To: danstowell+...@gmail.com
 CC: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org

 Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM

 Maybe a simple method is to use the OSM notes system, which is what the
 feature was designed for?

 Shaun

 On 3 Jul 2014, at 19:10, Dan S danstowell+...@gmail.com wrote:

  You know, rather than thinking about automatically importing any of
  their data into OSM, my intuition is that given the concerns about OS
  copyright, plus how much OSMers enjoy mapping new features, I'd
  suggest using their data to create a web feed of Hot new roads for
  mappers to go and survey! - I bet they'd all be mapped within a week
  ;)
 
  Dan
 
  2014-07-03 18:41 GMT+01:00 John Baker rovas...@hotmail.com:
 
  Yeah I know we are pretty good at adding them. But this discussion
  started
  with the HA because there were roads that were not on OSM.
 
  It was this project that he was working on.
 
  http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/road-projects/a23-handcross-to-warninglid/
 
  So I personally added this in a rough way based on the descriptions
  from him
  who was on site at the time and the plans that were there (I didn't
  trace
  them just looked at them).
 
  I don't (for a change) want to get into conversation about tracing
  imagery
  vs. doing it by hand. The point is what can we use.
 
  My thought were that if there plans were based on the OS streetview
  (rather
  than the more detailed ones) then we could use them.
 
 
  Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2014 18:23:34 +0100
  From: o...@raggedred.net
  To: talk-gb@openstreetmap.org
 
  Subject: Re: [Talk-GB] Getting Highway Agency information into OSM
 
  On 03/07/14 17:51, John Baker wrote:
  The first thing I am worried about is the copyright of the various
  plans. Some/many seem to be derived from OS maps.
 
  A legitimate concern.
 
  Now I am no expert on the copyright situation here and dialogue is
  difficult they know little about OSM really. He just said we release
  the plans and they are public domain.
 
  There is no mechanism in the UK for a body like the Highways Agency to
  release data as PD. That is a mechanism used in countries like the US.
  In the UK the info would have to be licensed using a specific licence,
  such as the Open Government Licence. If the plans are based on OS maps
  then OS would have to agree to release this, according to OS's
  interpretation of copyright law. OS probably will not agree to this,
  but
  it is worth asking :-).
 
  Without a suitably agreed licence we cannot trace such plans into OSM.
  You could visit the site and get GPS traces  photos