Hi, I have been talking to the Highways Agency who are keen to get more recent changes on OSM. They want to get all the new roads added and therefore added to the routers. (the initial contact was http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=25553 if you want a little background)
Things like: http://www.highways.gov.uk/roads/road-projects/A23-Handcross-to-Warninglid As contact has been made I have been discussing how best to get the plans of the works and the proper dialogue for the relevant changes (e.g. more interested in new roads rather than minor works/roadworks and road widening) and a timeline (project under construction now, project 2 completed, etc) I was hoping to upload these plans somewhere so they could be traced by people. The first thing I am worried about is the copyright of the various plans. Some/many seem to be derived from OS maps. Now I am no expert on the copyright situation here and dialogue is difficult they know little about OSM really. He just said we release the plans and they are public domain..... Now they apparently have hundreds of plans. And only choose to release 1 on the website (if at all) these can be http://www.highways.gov.uk/publications/a23-handcross-to-warninglid-plan-of-approved-scheme/ http://www.highways.gov.uk/publications/a45a46-tollbar-end-improvement-proposed-scheme-plan/ We could in theory get access to other plans of the works. Does anyone know what legally I can use (really so I/we can republish/upload it so we can use them as imagery)? Would plan derived from the current OS map we can use be ok? Are those more detailed ones ok? I know legal stuff is a minefield but I am hoping someone can point me in the correct direction. Once the legal hurdle has been overcome the idea is to setup a process stream so they can let me/us know what is happening (a simple spreadsheet or something) and get it added to OSM quickly. I have never dealt with any organisation before for getting things into OSM so I am a little lost on the best way to proceed so any advice/help will be useful. Cheers, John
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