Robert,
thanks for chasing the East Riding of Yorkshire council to receive their
rights of way data licenced as OGL. I failed to get this but your
tenacity, knowledge and skilful wording made the difference. Thanks again.
Chris
On 30/05/2018 22:47, Robert Whittaker (OSM lists) wrote:
On 30 May 2018 at 11:37, Adam Snape <[email protected]> wrote:
Over the coming months I'm hoping to individually clarify licensing with all
of the authorities which haven't explicitly, unambiguously and publicly
licensed their RoW data under OGL3 (and, yes, I know that's most of them).
I'll also try and get new or updated data where not currently available or
several years old.
That sounds great. Some time ago I was planning to do something
similar, but have been side-tracked by other projects and have never
found the time. This is as far as I got:
http://robert.mathmos.net/osm/prow/progress/open-data
In the slightly longer term I think our aim needs to be to persuade all
authorities to proactively publish new versions of their data as open data,
rather than individuals having to individually badger authorities to update
their data. Under their Publication Schemes they should start doing this
automatically once information is supplied the first time, but it seems that
only a minority of authorities who have released data currently publish it
proactively.
Indeed. Also, the Environmental Information Regulations (which PRoW
GIS data probably fall under, rather than FOI, though FOI Publication
Schemes still apply) also includes provision for councils to
proactively digitise and publish environmental data they hold --
whether requested or not-- but they don't seem to be making much
progress with this...
Anyway, Adam, I've just sent you a longer private message with some
more thoughts you might be interested in.
Robert.
--
cheers
Chris Hill (chillly)
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