Re: [Talk-GB] INSPIRE Polygons spatial data

2020-05-16 Thread Owen Boswarva
In what way do you think the Land Registry licence has been adjusted? That wording has been in place for some time. It is possible Land Registry will change their licence in July, as Ordnance Survey are changing the terms under which public sector organisations can share their derived data in

Re: [Talk-GB] Import of UK SSSI data

2019-11-16 Thread Owen Boswarva
t;The major gripe is having to get data from 3 separate sources (it would be >4 if NI ASSIs were available as open data). >- Virtually all of NE (and SNH & NRW) data is created against >MasterMap and therefore contains OSGB material. I think, but cannot be >ce

Re: [Talk-GB] Neighbourhood/LSOA Names

2019-11-15 Thread Owen Boswarva
Hi Steve, Do you mean this? https://visual.parliament.uk/msoanames Recently completed, but the House of Commons Library did request suggested names back in January when it was in draft. Owen On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 at 18:34, Steve Doerr wrote: Does anyone recognize this? A few months ago, I

Re: [Talk-GB] Copyright in OS-derived maps (Jez Nicholson)

2019-09-04 Thread Owen Boswarva
As far as I know Ordnance Survey's theory of derived data has never been tested in court. However there's an upcoming High Court decision (arising from a dispute between 77M Ltd and OS) that might shed some light. On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 at 23:42, Edward Bainton wrote: The idea of asking a ranger

Re: [Talk-GB] OSNI Open Data

2019-08-21 Thread Owen Boswarva
OSNI have said in a Twitter discussion today that they will remove the link to the LPS licence, to make it clear that normal OGL terms apply to this data: https://twitter.com/owenboswarva/status/1164159795622043648 If you source the NI administrative boundaries from the Open Data NI site

Re: [Talk-GB] English Urban Areas Building Heights 

2017-12-17 Thread Owen Boswarva
Presumably it's the CC BY open data here: http://www.emu-analytics.com/products/datapacks.php On 17 December 2017 at 16:57, Andy Mabbett wrote: > On 17 December 2017 at 10:26, Rob Nickerson > wrote: > > > I am delighted to let you know

Re: [Talk-GB] Local Authority rights of way information

2016-12-21 Thread Owen Boswarva
gt; > Chris Hill > (User chillly) > > > > On 21 Dec 2016, at 11:42, Owen Boswarva <owen.boswa...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The circumstances under which the East Riding of Yorkshire data was > provided to rowmaps are set out here: > > http://www.rowmaps.com/datasets

Re: [Talk-GB] Local Authority rights of way information

2016-12-21 Thread Owen Boswarva
The circumstances under which the East Riding of Yorkshire data was provided to rowmaps are set out here: http://www.rowmaps.com/datasets/EY/ I've no reason to mistrust Barry's account. But there is obviously a provenance issue for other users if the Council as copyright holder has not confirmed

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

2016-09-26 Thread Owen Boswarva
< christian.lederm...@gmail.com> wrote: OS Codepoint also does not include the postcodes for the Isle of Man > and the channel islands. > Is there an open data source for theses postcodes? > > On 26 September 2016 at 09:01, Gervase Markham <gerv-gm...@gerv.net> > wrote:

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

2016-09-26 Thread Owen Boswarva
vel. > > > //colin > > On 2016-09-26 10:01, Gervase Markham wrote: > > On 25/09/16 21:47, Owen Boswarva wrote: > > I can't see any reason why there should be a problem using Code-Point > Open in OSM, now that Ordnance Survey has applied the Open Government > Licence in

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

2016-09-25 Thread Owen Boswarva
Another OS OpenData dataset, OS Open Names, supports association of postcode centroids with road names. https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/products/os-open-names.html Owen On 25 September 2016 at 22:52, Lester Caine wrote: > On 25/09/16 21:34, Gervase

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

2016-09-25 Thread Owen Boswarva
Government agreed to pay Ordnance Survey £20 million per annum for the OS OpenData package, including Code-Point Open. The contract is here: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/os_opendata_agreement_with_ordna_2#incoming-498165 I can't see any obvious reason why Royal Mail would oppose a

Re: [Talk-GB] UK Postcodes

2016-09-25 Thread Owen Boswarva
I can't see any reason why there should be a problem using Code-Point Open in OSM, now that Ordnance Survey has applied the Open Government Licence in place of its own licence. If you read further down, the wiki page gives examples of OSM projects that use Code-Point Open. Owen On 25 September

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

2015-02-23 Thread Owen Boswarva
That seems inconsistent. If OSM was concerned about the OS OpenData Licence before, with respect to OS data, it should still be concerned with respect to data produced by third parties that continue to use the licence. The OS OpenData Licence is not dead if local authorities and other PSMA

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

2015-02-19 Thread Owen Boswarva
both licenses. Apologies but I lack time these days. On 18/02/2015 19:41, Owen Boswarva wrote: (I should clarify that by compatible I meant forward-compatible rather than interoperable. OGL data is suitable as an input to a OdBL dataset, but not vice versa.) -- Owen (@owenboswarva

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

2015-02-18 Thread Owen Boswarva
(I should clarify that by compatible I meant forward-compatible rather than interoperable. OGL data is suitable as an input to a OdBL dataset, but not vice versa.) -- Owen (@owenboswarva) On 18 February 2015 at 18:04, Jo Walsh metaz...@fastmail.net wrote: I asked @owenboswarva on Twitter who