Re: [Talk-GB] Official cycle accident information released as raw data with easting/northing

2009-03-17 Thread Jonathan Bennett
David Earl wrote: My bet is they were produced by pointing at an OS map (especially as they are grid refs not lat/lon) and are therefore OS derived. The DfT may be happy for anyone to use them however they want, but the OS will not be. Giving the coordinates as gridrefs, and not lat/lon

Re: [Talk-GB] Official cycle accident information released as raw data with easting/northing

2009-03-17 Thread Ed Loach
Indeed, but OS lays claim to data _derived_ from their maps, not just copying of the maps. If GPS co-ordinates were the original source of the data, but they had been converted to grid references to make it easier for people to try looking up the locations on OS maps, would they still try and