On 4 November 2015 at 10:25, Mark Goodge <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately, the NSG is not Open Data, so it isn't available to OSM by > default. The nearest we can do is attempt to visually classify by > observation. That's one of the weaknesses of a crowd-sourced approach., If > that matters to you, you might want to get involved in the campaign to get > the NSG released as Open Data.
I fear the NSG will probably never be open data, as it's based on OS base maps, and replicates a large quantity of key OS data (i,e. the road network). However, that doesn't necessarily mean that the classification information is inaccessible to OSM. Under the Highways Act, each highway authority (usually a County Council or Unitary Authority) is required to maintain a "list of highways maintainable at public expense" commonly known as the "List of Streets", and make it available for public inspection. Any rights in this information are likely to rest solely with the highway authority, so they should be able to give permission to use it under e.g. the Open Government Licence, which would then allow its use in OSM. I have some notes about requesting and getting permission to use these (and some other related) documents, which people may find useful: http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/prow/council-docs.htmlt -- Robert Whittaker _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
