Would it be possible to use data from OpenStreetMap for administrative boundaries?
I don't think so, as the definitions are held by Ordnance Survey, who exercise royalties for displaying the data and anything derived from it. OpenStreetMap are very careful not to include any OS data in their maps, and I can't think of a way of drawing administrative boundaries without referring to OS maps or OS-derived maps.
Having said that, if the TeleAtlas maps displayed by Google are considered derived from OS mapping, which they are in practical terms, then any location data derived from Google Maps (and Multimap, etc.) belongs to the OS too. Hence anyone using Google maps to publish UK location information is breaking OS copyright and terms of use. It all gets very complicated and silly. I'm just happy that the Met Police are still obviously displaying OS-derived boundaries on their Google Maps crime map [http://maps.met.police.uk/]. If they can do it...
I'm hoping to meet with an OS person soon to discuss the possible licence requirements for displaying routes on a map, where the routes have been generated from mapping tools like TrackLogs and Memory Map that use OS base raster mapping. They seem to want a royalty per "route transaction", but haven't yet defined what a "route transaction" is in the context of multi-route slippy zoomable maps. The CTC's routes site served 3.3million map tiles last year, some tiles containing no OS-derived data, and some containing many routes derived from OS data.
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