Andy: Thanks for the confirmation. For the data that might not be compliant, I take it "OGL" is the terminology I'd look for as a check? RE Bulk imports: most certainly not!!
Tom: There is a long, long list of England-wide shapefiles, each downloadable with a couple of clicks from " http://www.gis.naturalengland.org.uk/pubs/gis/GIS_register.asp";. So far I've downloaded "Local Nature Reserve" and "Sites of Special Scientific Interest (England-wide)", opened them in Quantum GIS, and identified the selections in my local area (of many thousands in total) that I'd use for boundary fixing etc. These are the ones that are of particular interest to me, but I'd be happy to help more generally. However, I'm pretty new to all this -- it'd be good if someone more experienced could take a look and judge what the best approach might be, e.g. a smaller list of shapefiles of particular usefulness to the OSM project. Thanks again. David On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:09 PM, Tom Chance <t...@acrewoods.net> wrote: > Perhaps, David, you could upload the shapefiles somewhere so we could > stick them into Potlatch 2 for tracing purposes, with a wiki page to track > progress? I'd be very interested in having a look at it. > > Tom > > > On 18 July 2012 20:53, Andy Robinson <ajrli...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On the whole yes as its OGL its fine for OSM. However remember to tag >> with the appropriate source/attribution. A word of warning though that some >> of the data may not be fully compliant yet so check the licence details for >> each data type before you use.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Also PLEASE DO _*NOT*_ DO ANY BULK IMPORTS!**** >> >> ** ** >> >> So far I’ve used it to fix the Peak District boundary but nothing else. I >> think Ed Loach has used it a bit too.**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Cheers**** >> >> Andy**** >> >> ** ** >> >> *From:* David Fisher [mailto:djfishe...@gmail.com] >> *Sent:* 18 July 2012 20:18 >> *To:* talk-gb@openstreetmap.org >> *Subject:* [Talk-GB] Natural England data**** >> >> ** ** >> >> Hi all, >> >> I've recently come across the Natural England site, which has shapefiles >> for download of various category of open space (local/national nature >> reserve, SSSI, etc). >> >> The website states "From 1 April 2012 Natural England is making its >> publicly available Geographic Information datasets available for commercial >> and non-commercial reuse under the Open Government Licence. We are now able >> to use this licence, as we have secured copyright exemptions from Ordnance >> Survey under the Public Sector Mapping Agreement." ( >> http://www.gis.naturalengland.org.uk/pubs/gis/gis_register.asp) >> >> Does this allow the data to be used by OSM? >> >> Thanks, >> >> David Fisher.**** >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> >> > > > -- > http://tom.acrewoods.net http://twitter.com/tom_chance >
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