On Friday, 12 July 2019, Brian Prangle wrote: > I've noticed that some trigpoints are tagged with a reference prefixed > TPUK. This is a reference to the numbers assigned by the website > http://trigpointing.uk/ which has the following text as a footer: "The > TrigpointingUK database is owned and maintained by Ian Harris (Teasel)" > That doesn't sound very open to me - does anyone know what permission we > have to use this data? The OSM wiki says we *can* use it but who has the > text of the explicit permission (or licence) and shouldn't we have a > system of being able to reference(hyperlink) permissions such as these from > the wiki (just to be safe)? > > Apologies if there is a talk-gb thread buried in the archives relating to > this > Hi Brian Each pillar has a plate with an OS reassigned reference, which is easily on the ground verifiable. I believe that we should be using that rather than those randomly assigned by a 3rd party site of unknown origin.
For example Titterstone Clee is 2943, which I can't remember if I added it. Phil (trigpoint) -- Sent from my Sailfish device _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
