On 21 June 2012 23:55, Robert Whittaker (OSM) <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm pleased to be able to report that three councils have agreed to > let us use their Definitive Statements of Public Rights of Way under > the UK Open Government License (OGL). (I'll be posting the emails I > sent to the councils and some other notes about the correspondence I > had with them in a separate message for anyone who's interested.)
I've put together some rough notes about the documents councils have, and how to go about requesting them and obtaining permission to re-use them in OSM. These notes can be found at http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/prow/council-data.html . Any corrections or suggestions for improvements would be welcomed. > Worcestershire does not [have the statements online in a convenient > form], but the text of each right of way is available from a link in the > popup by clicking on the interactive map [3]. > Accessing them in this way, it will be hard to avoid inadvertently > making use of the additional information about the route of each > way from the map. So I've obtained a list of all the image files, > which I'm planning to use to allow direct access to the statements > for each parish. Watch this space for more details, though first > I have to chase up a few of the files that seem to be missing. I've now finished processing the tiff files and have combined them into one PDF for each parish. You can access these from http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/prow/worcs/ . I haven't had a reply from Worcestershire CC about the missing files, so I've just made a note of the situation on that page for now. > The OGL requires attribution, so I've added details of these three > counties to the appropriate wiki page [4]. (Unfortunately though, this > page isn't obviously linked from the main OSM map or official > copyright/license page [5] so I'm not convinced that attribution > statements on [4] completely fulfil our obligations at the moment. I'm please to be able to report that my suggestion to add a link from [5] to [4] has been accepted and is now live. I'm satisfied that this meets our attribution obligations under the OGL. So as far as I'm concerned, that means it's now ok to go ahead and start using these three Definitive Statements to improve OSM. If you do make use of them. don't forget to add suitable source tags to show where the information has come from. (I've previously suggested source:designation=definitive_statement and/or source:ref=definitive_statement as appropriate.) Best wishes, Robert. > [3] http://gis.worcestershire.gov.uk/website/Countryside/ > [4] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#United_Kingdom > [5] http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright -- Robert Whittaker http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/ _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
