Interesting.. Perhaps i miss-wrote.. I don't work for, nor represent koordinates.com, the website specifically has the option to choose the licence of the data being added. (I'm just a Fan of the website)
'my hopes' is that the data will be available on koordinates.com, and kool things like wfs, wms, transparent feature rendering systems will be available ... because i don't own the website, i can't say if or when that will happen :) It's interesting how the term 'Open' is mearly just a 'Buzz word', to make it sould cool .... lol. cheers, Sam On 3/3/11, Andrew Chapman <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Sam > If I understand what you are proposing, I don't think that it would be > permitted within the OS licence. > Use will be free to approved organisations, but only to them and > sub-contractors who have signed an approved sub-licence agreement. The goal > seems to be to make it easy for anyone in central and local government (or > working for or with them) to use the data - the community has paid for the > production of the data out of taxation so it is silly to expect to have to > pay for it all over again. Where the use would be commercial, OS is required > to generate income to reduce its costs. > The weblink I initially provided gives all the legal conditions and a > slightly less confusing and relatively plain English explanation of what can > and cannot be done. > > Andrew > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Sam > Vekemans > Sent: 03 March 2011 20:18 > To: Andrew Chapman; [email protected]; Brendan Morley; Robert Coup; > post; [email protected]; Ed Corkery > Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Public Sector Mapping Agreement > > Hi, > Thats great news! > Thanks for sharing > > > FYI, one of the things im working on with the folks at koordinates.com > is to upload and provide a direct link to the geo-data available from > Ordnance Survay to koordinates.com, so then all of the data will be > available at a central source, and in the same standard .shp file > format. > > > Koordinates.com also has API access, so the hopes is that their will > be a way to directly extract data from koordinates.com to be usable > for the qgis work. > > > > I already and downloaded a few sample files from it, so the linkage > should not be that hard to make. > > > cheers, > sam > > On 3/3/11, Andrew Chapman <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ordnance Survey is introducing their "Public Sector Mapping Agreement for >> England and Wales" as of 1 April 2011. This is a major change to their >> licensing and will provide free access to OS MasterMap and other layers to >> all public bodies, layers of local government (including the approximately >> 10,000 parish councils)... and also permit free sub-licensing to >> subcontractors. Directly and, indirectly, this could dramatically increase >> the number of potential users of QGIS. Details can be found at >> > www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/business/sectors/government/publicpsmafaq >> s.html. >> I'm a member of a parish council, but am working with the county council >> (plus Environment Agency, Highways Agency, etc) in different areas looking >> at local community sourcing of GIS data, but especially relating to >> flooding. >> To encourage take-up for both GIS and QGIS, it may help if there were >> tutorials to take a new user of GIS through the steps to download data > from >> Ordnance Survey (probably only in GZ format for the topology layers). >> To date I've been getting data as shapefiles - when I last tried (an > earlier >> version) QGIS wouldn't load .gz and the support for .gml may have been >> incomplete. >> Is anyone else using Ordnance Survey .gz files directly? >> Would the best advice for users new to GIS be to convert to shapefiles or >> use a database (something I've not yet managed to do)? >> Are there any UK users involved with town or parish councils? >> >> Andrew >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qgis-user mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user >> > > > -- > --- > Across Canada Trails - Beyond 2017 - The National Trails Network > Victoria, BC Canada > > Twitter: @Acrosscanada > Blog: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans > Skype: 'Sam Vekemans' > > Member, CommonMap Inc. http://commonmap.org/ > IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net #CommonMap > Also find us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn > ________________________________________ > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 10.0.1204 / Virus Database: 1435/3479 - Release Date: 03/03/11 > > -- --- Across Canada Trails - Beyond 2017 - The National Trails Network Victoria, BC Canada Twitter: @Acrosscanada Blog: http://acrosscanadatrails.posterous.com/ Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans Skype: 'Sam Vekemans' Member, CommonMap Inc. http://commonmap.org/ IRC: irc://irc.oftc.net #CommonMap Also find us on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn _______________________________________________ Qgis-user mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-user
