On Wednesday 07 October 2009 22:56:20 Richard Cantwell wrote: > 2009/10/7 Karl Grant <[email protected]> > > > I explained the openstreetmap principle to the engineer involved and she > > saw > > no problems with it, there's certainly no OSI licences involved. > > This might not be relevant, but is there any chance that the data was > somehow 'derived' from OSi data. By that I mean might the county engineer > have originally worked on OSi road centreline data to generate the road > numbering scheme? > > I haven't seen the issue of derived data come up here in Ireland before, > but it is a VERY big issue over in the UK. OSGB has a stranglehold over > huge swathes of Local Authority data all because it was digitised off or > generated from OSGB mapping. I would imagine you would need to get the > statement in writing from the engineer in question that the LA has full > ownership and rights to the data (and furthermore is placing the data into > the public domain / some other form that OSM can use) > > If OSi get wind of this they might start issuing strongly worded letters to > data managers in LA's asserting ownership over all sorts of derived data, > which would be unfortunate to say the least. > > In summary - I might be paranoid, but caution needed. > Okay, I'll take the paranoid approach, I should be able to tag roads using it, (if I don't upload it) because the road references are public domain. I'll inform the group when I have the data transformed into OSM / GPX and if anyone is in the Longford area I'll email it to them.
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