David, > Sorry to be a killjoy.
Not at all. Thanks for bringing this up. > I think the first thing is to get permission from Islington to use it. > I suspect if you look at the legal info on their site they will claim > copyright over the contents, so by gathering this data you are > probably infringing copyright. The individual bits of data may be > facts, and therefore not copyrightable, but the collection as a whole > is subject to database copyright and can't (or probably can't, but > that means can't so far as OSM is concerned) be used. I've put their disclaimer below. One must agree to it before going any further on their site: (https://www.islington.gov.uk/Environment/Planning/Online/default.asp) QuoteBegin Planning Service Disclaimer - Important Notice This site includes only those records which the London Borough of Islington's Planning Service, hold on computer, and is not therefore a complete database of all information held by the council. Please do not rely on information from this site as an alternative to traditional searches, where completeness of information is essential. While the Council takes great care to ensure that the information provided on this site is accurate, we cannot accept any liability or responsibility should you rely on the information provided and ultimately find it to have been incorrect. If you have any reason to suspect that the information is incorrect, please contact us immediately by emailing [email protected] so that the matter can be investigated and any corrections made as soon as reasonbly practical. QuoteEnd Fair enough. We don't expect this data to be 100% accurate or complete. QuoteBegin Data Protection Act Please note that application forms, plans and supporting material will be published on the Internet. Similarly representations about planning applications will also be published. In doing so the Council's Planning Service will endeavour to comply with the Data Protection Act. This will entail the non-publication of telephone numbers and email addresses of applicants and those making representations about planning applications as well as all forms of signature. Data published in relation to enforcement complaints will not contain any personal information. QuoteEnd Good to know my personal is in safe hands. QuoteBegin Copyright Notice Plans, drawings and materials submitted to the Council are protected by the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (Section 47). You may only use material which is downloaded and/or printed for consultation purposes, to compare current applications with previous schemes and to check whether developments have been completed in accordance with approved plans. Further copies must not be made without the prior permission of the copyright owner (the applicant/agent/architect) otherwise, you will be in breach of copyright. You may, however, make copies of the decision notice provided the copies are not altered in any way. You must agree to the terms of the Notices above before being able to access the rest of this site. QuoteEnd It seems to me that they are exclusively referring to the submitted drawings and other consultation documents which are all available for download. The term 'download' is not normally used when 'looking at a web page' is really what is meant. Here is an example page (CAREFUL! You are skipping the 'I Agree' intro!) https://www.islington.gov.uk/onlineplanning/apas/run/WPHAPPDETAIL.DisplayUrl?theApnID=831081 It is those pages that I derive the addresses from. This info seems to be publicly available. Is this being a bit blue-eyed? Cheers Blumpsy PS: I might have to move this thread over to talk-legal... _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
