Well I fear the OS have changed their mind (wouldn't be the first time!) Its possible if you were displaying the data on other OS maps that you might be all right displaying the data on a website as you describe.
But there latest note is unequivocal - you are not allowed to use OS or derived data on a google maps api - unless you have negotiated special terms with google that does not give them any implied rights. Sorry ! Like you - I hope that this is swiftly resolved - the OS are definitely overly protectionist in this whole area - I appreciate they need to earn revenue to maintain the extremely good map base we have in this country, but they take it way too far - seriously hampering the use of spatial data in this country. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I had a long discussion with Ordnance Survey support about publishing > data derived from OS mapping (in fact using Tracklogs mapping > software) on the CTC's routes website. > We came to the conclusion that it's allowed, so long as the > organisation running the site pays for a "paper map copying licence" > which is about �50/year from the OS. Since the CTC do indeed have > various OS licenses, including a Paper Map Copying Licence, we have > decided that it's OK to display Tracklogs routes (traced from OS > mapping) on our Google Maps API maps. > > We almost mananged to persuade Sustrans that their OS-derived route > data could be plotted on our Google Maps too, as a benefit to all UK > cyclists, but they've since gone quiet. The Sustrans site is still > stuck with very poor non-slippy mapping of their routes, which is a > great pity. > > The whole situation is silly: there must be thousands of people using > Tracklogs, Memory Map, etc. to design and share routes based on OS > mapping without the required OS licences to do so. Technically > speaking, if you determine even just the grid reference of a point > from an OS map, you must include a copyright statement if you tell > anyone else that grid reference, as it's derived data and hence > subject to Crown Copyright. > > Hopefully the government's Show Us A Better Way competition, which has > several map-based winners, will help to remove the over-restrictive > licence requirements for derived data. I can understand the OS wanting > to keep control over their extremely-nice maps, but it would be nice > to be able to take points or routes from them without being trapped by > the derived data rules. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Maps API" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Maps-API@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Maps-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
