Hello James,
Please also take a look at the current OSMUK quarterly project which is
highly relevant
https://osmuk.org/quarterly-projects/ ...and consider joining the group.
Regards,
Jez
On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 12:17 David Woolley, <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 04/09/18 10:55, James wrote:
> > The officer confirmed that Rights of Way data was in the
> > public domain for any use.
>
> That's a bad sign, as it indicates that they don't understand UK
> intellectual property law. They only way that database rights can lapse
> into the public domain is through the passage of time.
>
> There are two likely rights owners. One is the council. They need to
> explicitly licence their data base right under the Open Government
> Licence. Any other licence needs to be approved centrally.
>
> The other is Ordnance Survey. That normally means that any actual map
> cannot be used, although, if licensed by the council, the narrative
> description can be used.
>
> >
> > Following some more research, I discovered rowmaps.com which has a
> > database of Shropshire's RoW data from 2014. I contacted the owner,
> > Barry, to enquire about this data. He is currently seeking a more
> > up-to-date database for me.
>
> I believe there are concerns that a lot of this data has been lifted
> from council web sites without getting appropriate licenses. Typically
> web sites are licensed for personal, non-commercial, use, but OSM
> requires that the licence permit redistribution, and permit commercial use.
>
> >
> > Once I have this data, what would be the best way to make it available
> > in OSM? Is it not considered accurate to directly import the data, or
> > should it be used as a guide for a ground survey?
>
> Given that it is likely that the database rights on the actual
> coordinates are owned by OS, and you will have to use the narrative
> descriptions, you are going to have use other sources, and on the ground
> surveys are always best, to fill in the details. In any case, any
> import needs to be checked to make sure it is consistent with existing
> data (e.g. doesn't duplicate it, and is topologically consistent with
> other features, even if they are not in their true, WGS-84, positions.
>
> Also, what many OSM users are interested in is mapping those public
> rights of way that the council does not know about, as there is a
> deadline looming after which only those known to the council will be
> valid rights of way.
> >
>
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