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 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 websit

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" 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 publi

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

2013-06-06 Thread Nick Whitelegg
k I used HCC data to add a missing segment of path - so it looks like I'll have to chop that one out. Nick -"sk53.osm" wrote: - To: Nick Whitelegg From: "sk53.osm" Date: 06/06/2013 10:59AM Cc: "Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org" , legal-t...@openstreetmap.org

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 the

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

[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