Hmmm, I see. I'll dig further into the licensing side of things before I go any further.
Thanks for the pointers! On Sat, 16 Nov 2019, 16:28 Chris Hill, <[email protected]> wrote: > I think there may be a problem here. The web page describing the data says > "© Natural England copyright. Contains Ordnance Survey data". Many public > bodies suffer from the viral OS copyright problem, where the data is based > on OS mapping data and OS have claimed copyright over the geodata element > of such data in the past. > > You need to be sure this is not the case before you use any of these > datasets in OSM. > > -- > cheers > Chris Hill (chillly) > > > On 16/11/2019 15:30, Henry Bush wrote: > > Sorry, yes, the source of the data is the Natural England API: > > https://www.arcgis.com/home/item.html?id=f10cbb4425154bfda349ccf493487a80 > > https://naturalengland-defra.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/f10cbb4425154bfda349ccf493487a80_0/ > > The data is freely usable, so there shouldn't be any licensing issues. > > On Sat, 16 Nov 2019 at 15:24, Philip Barnes <[email protected]> wrote: > >> What is the source of the data you are planning to import? >> >> Remember wikipedia is not a useable source under OSM licensing terms. >> >> Phil (trigpoint) >> >> >> On Sat, 2019-11-16 at 15:12 +0000, Henry Bush wrote: >> > Hello all, >> > >> > (I've sent this to both the talk-gb and imports mailing lists) >> > >> > This is just a heads-up: I'm thinking about importing the data about >> > UK SSSI areas into openstreetmap. >> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_of_Special_Scientific_Interest >> > >> > I've had a quick look at a few, and none of them seemed to be marked >> > on the map. If I go ahead with the import, I'd do a much more >> > thorough investigation first. This mail is simply a prompt for >> > discussion as to whether people think it's a good idea. >> > >> > At the moment I'm still in the research phase. I've started >> > collecting related links on a wiki page: >> > >> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:Spookypeanut/SSSIBot >> > >> > NB: this page is really just bookmarks for me at this stage. If I go >> > ahead I'll make a proper, more informative page. >> > >> > Cheers, >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >
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