[OSM-talk] What is OS OpenMap (UK)?

2015-02-22 Thread Stefan Keller
From the news: OKFN wrote Ordnance Survey announced that their OS OpenData Licence is to be replaced by the Open Government Licence v3.0. https://twitter.com/OKFN/status/569094359204929536 Commented by a blog post of the Open Data Institute: http://theodi.org/blog/ordnance-survey-govco-open-data

Re: [OSM-talk] What is OS OpenMap (UK)?

2015-02-22 Thread john whelan
Interesting question Canada has a very similar license. Cheerio John On 22 February 2015 at 07:11, Stefan Keller sfkel...@gmail.com wrote: From the news: OKFN wrote Ordnance Survey announced that their OS OpenData Licence is to be replaced by the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Re: [OSM-talk] What is OS OpenMap (UK)?

2015-02-22 Thread Stefan Keller
Hi Jonathan Thanks for the clarification. My fist intention is to take this announcement to put pressure on other national mapping agencies to release their map data under an open license. But thinking about real openess and cooperation (egov and OSM) consider this: Often mapping agencies

Re: [OSM-talk] What is OS OpenMap (UK)?

2015-02-22 Thread Jonathan Bennett
On 22/02/2015 12:11, Stefan Keller wrote: 1. Is this OS OpenMap worldwide or UK bound? Neither. It's GB only -- none of the island of Ireland is included. 2. How does this world-leading digital map look like (map style)? It doesn't -- it's data only, so needs to be rendered to make a map,

Re: [OSM-talk] What is OS OpenMap (UK)?

2015-02-22 Thread Tom Taylor
The feedback should go both ways, if OSM members detect errors and know where they came from they should report back. Tom Taylor On 22/02/2015 9:27 AM, Stefan Keller wrote: Hi Jonathan Thanks for the clarification. My fist intention is to take this announcement to put pressure on other