Ron Wellsted wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > 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 one can download shape files for gas >>> pipes, electricity lines and the like. I am not sure what they mean by >>> 'free' though and can't find a license page. Anyone fancy looking into >>> whether we can use it or not? >>> >>> http://www.nationalgrid.com/uk/LandandDevelopment/DDC/GasElectricNW/undergroundcables/shape/ >>> >>> >> Yeah, I'll see what they say. >> >> Cheers, Chris >> > > I would have thought their site Terms & Conditions exclude the use by > OSM, specifically: > "You agree not for yourself or through or by way of assistance to any > third party to distribute, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or > otherwise deal in or with the Website or materials therein or otherwise > commercially exploit such material or content otherwise than as > permitted by law." > > see http://www.nationalgrid.com/corporate/leg Yes, I read their T&Cs 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.
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