Good catch there Adam 🤔 Does this suggest they themselves are violating OS licenses? Their database is referenced on wikipedia a bit, could be quite the licensing rabbit hole.
Regarding your point Steven, I did notice this in the section linked by Adam: Decimal heights from LIDAR can be identified by the absence of an entry in > the Survey field. Which links to the following description of the survey field <http://www.hills-database.co.uk/database_notes.html#survey> where your questions appear to be answered. On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 7:28 AM Steven Horner <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > Is that true though for the hills with details in the survey column, they > have been measured with the instruments listed, eg. Abney level, Leica > Disto D510, etc. If they don't have anything recorded in the survey column > you would have to presume they are derived from OS mapping as there is no > evidence to the contrary. Although does the survey equipment only record > height or also position? > > On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 12:20 AM Adam Snape <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Sadly, despite the licence I think that much of the positional and >> (especially) the height information is unsuitable for OSM as some of it is >> derived from OS mapping (or otherwise from published lists themselves >> derived from OS Mapping) >> http://www.hills-database.co.uk/database_notes.html#mapinfo_gb >> and thus the OS could legitimately claim a violation of their database >> right. >> >> If they were able to licence the raw GPS/height submitted by walkers and >> others involved in the project then that could be useful. >> >> Kind regards, >> >> Adam >> >> On Mon, 11 Feb 2019 at 23:33, Silent Spike <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I recently came across the DoBIH >>> <http://www.hills-database.co.uk/downloads.html> which you can see is >>> licensed under CC BY 3.0. >>> >>> This could be a valuable source of accurate height and position >>> information for "natural = peak" nodes in the UK + Ireland (maybe even an >>> import candidate). >>> >>> Would anyone be interested in requesting permission following the wiki >>> guidelines >>> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Getting_permission>? I'd do >>> it myself, but it would probably be more professional coming from someone >>> else. >>> >>> Regards >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Talk-GB mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> >
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