On Tue, 4 Sep 2018 at 10:56, James <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to make Geocaching in my county (Shropshire) more accessible to > those who do not have OS maps, or simply want the convenience of navigating > from a mobile device. This relies on OpenStreetMap having comprehensive > mapping of the county's Rights of Way - at the moment, it does not. I > contacted Shropshire Council, who seemed quite receptive to the idea. The > officer confirmed that Rights of Way data was in the public domain for any > use.
As others have already said the "public domain for any use" part indicates a mis-understanding of IP rights that will apply to the data. If you have a contact at the council who is receptive, the best think you could do would be to try to persuade to make their Rights of Way GIS data available to download online, with a clear statement that it can be re-used under the Open Government Licence (OGL) v3. They could use their own Open Data page at https://shropshire.gov.uk/open-data/datasets/ or put it on https://data.gov.uk/search?q=shropshire or even both. Ideally, they'd also provide regular updates -- but maybe take thinks one step at a time. Then the data would be available for anyone to use. Barry would be able to download it to update http://www.rowmaps.com/datasets/SH/ . I'd also be able to include it in my OSM comparison tool at https://osm.mathmos.net/prow/progress/ . (Shropshire's PRoW GIS data can be viewed online at https://shropshire.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer/index.html?id=00a0e03e79ee453ab6b787961ab192ec . Ordnance Survey almost certainly own some of the IP rights in the GIS data, as it will have been digitised over one of their base maps. However, under the "Presumption to Publish" scheme https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/help-and-support/public-sector/guidance/presumption-to-publish-criteria.html Local Authorities are able to release their derived Rights of Way data under the OGL.) Best wishes, Robert. -- Robert Whittaker _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
