Tom Hughes wrote:

http://help.openstreetmap.org/questions/2056/using-the-ordnance-survey-national-grid-with-openstreetmap

Making search work is a whole different issue and I would certainly
consider reasonable patches to do that - there are complicated issues of
OS intellectual property (which I'm not sure Richard's answer on that
thread accurately addresses) which would need to be considered depending
on what algorithm was used.

Good grief.  Are people seriously suggesting that the Ordnance Survey
"owns" the grid reference system to the extent that others cannot
convert between grid refs and other formats, or draw a grid over their
own maps?  That sounds like legal paranoia to me (and normally, I think
I'm more cautious than most about such issues).


Regards,  Phil.








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