2008/11/21 Stephen Gower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 01:58:43PM -0000, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) > wrote: >> >> The problem here is who says it's a public right of way. If you ask your >> local authority they will bring out there plans which give the details and >> reference numbers but these of course exist on OS mapping. Not easy to be >> definitive. > > The Definitive Map (DM) exists on OS mapping, but the other legal document > The Definitive Statement (DS) is purely textual descriptions of each path. > Those for Hampshire are on-line at > http://www3.hants.gov.uk/row/locating-row/definitive-statement.htm and look > very similar to the Oxfordshire ones I've seen at the library. > > I think it would be possible to take *just* the DS and an on-the-ground > survey and have something close-to definitive in itself. This of course > raises futher questions :- > > The DS and DM are closely related, is the DS contaminated by the OS licence, > even though it is not a map? > By using the DS and a survey, would we just be recreating the DM and > somehow infringing the OS copyright? > The "Public Footpath" signs will have been placed based on infomation in the > DM - do we risk infringing OS copyright by using these to map RoW? > > s >
I wasn't aware that Definitive Statements were a legal requirement, although I was aware that descriptions of boundaries are often described (although often in an indistinct way) in legal documents, particularly ones enforcing boundary changes. (For example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greater_London_boundary_changes) I wonder if there's a more complete DS for boundaries? -- Regards, Thomas Wood (Edgemaster) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
