[Talk-GB] Current status on UK Council footpath data

2013-06-06 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, Just wondering what the current state of what we can do with the UK council footpath open data is? Generally I don't just copy the data into OSM anyway: it's more fun to survey :-) However I'm wondering whether we can do this? 1. Use the council data to verify whether a footpath surveyed

Re: [Talk-GB] Current status on UK Council footpath data

2013-06-06 Thread sk53.osm
Hi Nick, We have Open Data locally for Nottingham ProW (significant because the city was exempt from maintaining a definitive map until recently). So far all I have done is added ref information to paths already mapped. Even with open data the situation is still confusing: for instance a footpath

Re: [Talk-GB] Current status on UK Council footpath data

2013-06-06 Thread Barry Cornelius
On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, sk53.osm wrote: One thing which concerns me is the 'private' release of Open Data. A number of counties have given ProW data to persistent pesterers (not meant perjoratively) apparently under a suitable license. I'd far rather see this published on the official websites of

Re: [Talk-GB] Current status on UK Council footpath data

2013-06-06 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hello Jerry (and everyone else who's replied), Ok thanks for that. The council concerned in my case is Wiltshire. I am keen to not have the incorrectly tagged as designation=public_footpath way remaining incorrectly tagged in OSM, for the simple reason it's incorrect. However it doesn't look

Re: [Talk-GB] Current status on UK Council footpath data

2013-06-06 Thread osm
Hi Jerry, On Thu, 6 Jun 2013 10:59:11 +0100, sk53.osm sk53@gmail.com wrote: ... One thing which concerns me is the 'private' release of Open Data. A number of counties have given ProW data to persistent pesterers (not meant perjoratively) apparently under a suitable license. I'd far rather

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-legal-talk] Current status on UK Council footpath data

2013-06-06 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 6 June 2013 08:11, Nick Whitelegg nick.whitel...@solent.ac.uk wrote: Just wondering what the current state of what we can do with the UK council footpath open data is? [ I previously posted this to legal-talk, but seeing as all the discussion is taking place here now... ] It will depend

Re: [Talk-GB] Current status on UK Council footpath data

2013-06-06 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 6 June 2013 10:59, sk53.osm sk53@gmail.com wrote: One thing which concerns me is the 'private' release of Open Data. A number of counties have given ProW data to persistent pesterers (not meant perjoratively) apparently under a suitable license. I'd far rather see this published on the

Re: [Talk-GB] [OSM-legal-talk] Current status on UK Council footpath data

2013-06-06 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 6 June 2013 13:15, o...@k3v.eu wrote: I think you are asking a lot if individual contributors who are not lawyers should be expected to second guess councils and the licenses they choose to release data under. This is definitely a big problem for OSM, as many mappers seem to be not

[Talk-GB] Nottingham Pub Meetup restarting

2013-06-06 Thread sk53.osm
I've put dates in the wiki for next 3 months of Nottingham pub meetings: next Tuesday 11th July 9th August 13th All will be at 19:30 at the Lincolnshire Poacher. A mapping activity for an hour beforehand (which may start from somewhere else) Details on the wiki: