Daniel Hilton wrote: > As a more general question: where can you get copyleft GIS data, > shapefiles etc for the UK?
www.openstreetmap.org > Seems a bit of a nightmare trying to get hold of say ward data or > constituencies for example. Good luck with that. It goes like this: Local authorities plot their boundaries on Ordnance Survey maps. According to OS, this makes them "derived data" and crown copyright. While there's been some movement on being able to use this information without having to pay, you certainly won't be able to redistribute the data. The answer is to get authorities and the boundary commission to plot boundaries in OpenStreetMap as well as on OS maps, but I doubt the chances of that happening are very high. Jonathan _______________________________________________ Mailing list [email protected] Archive, settings, or unsubscribe: https://secure.mysociety.org/admin/lists/mailman/listinfo/developers-public
