Re: [Talk-GB] Road Names Quarterly Project

2015-02-18 Thread Steve Doerr
On 17/02/2015 23:05, Paul Bivand wrote: A small story about this: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/31117763/history Laurie Gray Avenue, Bluebell Hill, Kent, used to have a street sign saying Laurie Gray. Various council documentation and OS locator referred to the 'Avenue' form. After two

[Talk-GB] County Footpaths Data (was: Re: OS OpenData now OGL)

2015-02-18 Thread Nick Whitelegg
Hi, A related point - which comes up for me when surveying quite a bit. I know this has come up many times before but the results have always been inconclusive; would anyone official be able to give guidance here? (i.e. I'm not looking for a debate, but a yes or no from the appropriate

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

2015-02-18 Thread Jo Walsh
I asked @owenboswarva on Twitter who is an active voice whom i trust on open government data issues, and he said this: IMO the only significant difference is v3 explicitly permits re-users to list multiple attributions via a URI or link. ...the differences are mostly just tidier syntax. If you

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

2015-02-18 Thread Owen Boswarva
(I should clarify that by compatible I meant forward-compatible rather than interoperable. OGL data is suitable as an input to a OdBL dataset, but not vice versa.) -- Owen (@owenboswarva) On 18 February 2015 at 18:04, Jo Walsh metaz...@fastmail.net wrote: I asked @owenboswarva on Twitter who

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

2015-02-18 Thread Robert Whittaker (OSM lists)
On 18 February 2015 at 00:04, Rob Nickerson rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 February 2015 at 23:57, Matthijs Melissen i...@matthijsmelissen.nl wrote: I could imagine that OGL-3 has imported OS ODL's clause on sublicensing that caused incompatibility with ODbL, which would make OGL-3

Re: [Talk-GB] OS OpenData now OGL

2015-02-18 Thread Dave F.
On 17/02/2015 22:38, Rob Nickerson wrote: Hi All, At long last the open data licence scene in the UK has now become a lot simpler as OS have ditched their OS OpenData Licence and replaced it with the standard OGL: