On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Chris Hill chillly...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Yes, I read their TCs but it never hurts to actually ask, they might
just grant us the right to use their data. It doesn't cost much to ask.
Absolutely, and it's a good attitude to just plough on and ask.
But I'll
On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Donald Allwright wrote:
It would seem that being used as a basis for just
about everything means that no-one else can ever use those data without
paying the OS a fee.
Must be a nice little earner for them. Of course OpenStreetMap imposes
similar restrictions,
except
Also, I suspect that selling maps is a nice little earner for people such as
the land registry, so licensing them all as CC-BY-SA isn't in their interest
(as much as it may be in the tax payer's interest).
And that, I believe, is the crux of the problem. The people who get to decide
have a
Peter Miller wrote:
A nice friendly person in the GIS business has just pointed this site
out to me. They described it as a 'free' national grid vector layers
and it certainly looks as though one can download shape files for gas
pipes, electricity lines and the like. I am not sure what
Ron Wellsted wrote:
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Chris Hill wrote:
Peter Miller wrote:
A nice friendly person in the GIS business has just pointed this site
out to me. They described it as a 'free' national grid vector layers
and it certainly looks as though
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