On 25/09/09 13:16, Dave F. wrote: > I had an email conversation with the mapping officer from my local > council. He intimated that the data relating to public rights of way, > and its associated copyright, would belong to the Local Council. When > they make a legal order to record a public right of way they send a copy > of the order to the OS who then copy the line of the right of way onto > their own maps.
In principle that is correct - the problem arises if the council has referred to an OS map in any way while defining the right of way. If they have then the OS will claim it is a derived work and infected by their copyright etc. Tom -- Tom Hughes ([email protected]) http://www.compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
