Ah yes, thanks for clarifying that for the rest of the readers. You are quite right - they are non-open, non-commercial, personal use only licences.
At this stage we are only using the aerial imagery, however should anyone be interested in making use of other layers I would be more than happy to raise this request on their behalf. Regards, Rob On 8 February 2014 19:53, Barry Cornelius <barrycorneliu...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Sat, 8 Feb 2014, Rob Nickerson wrote: > >> Warwickshire CC are documenting it at http://www.warwickshire.gov.uk/gisAt >> the moment they seem to have gone for the approach of saying if it's our >> data it's OGL, and if it's OS's data then it's the >> Public Sector End User Licence. Obviously this is frustrating as it >> requires the user to know who's data is who's, but Jonathan >> (from the councils GIS team) informs us that their contract with the >> aerial imagery company used in this latest layer allows them to >> share the data (i.e. by making the council the data owner it is available >> under OGL and has no OS derived data). >> > > I guess you are not interested in the data that Warwickshire County > Council has derived from Ordnance Survey data. However, let me make one > comment about this. > > I note that such data is being released with the "Public Sector INSPIRE > WMS End User Licence". The WCC /gis web page links to this web page which > describes the licence: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co. > uk/business-and-government/licensing/licences/web- > mapping-service-end-user-licence.html?utm_source=Web% > 2Bmapping%2Bservice%2Bviewer&utm_medium=Redirect&utm_term= > wmseul&utm_campaign=INSPIRE > > As you know I've been in contact with local authorities concerning release > of their data about public rights of way. Occasionally, they suggest > releasing the data to me with a "Public End User Licence". > > These two licences are similar. I don't regard these licences as Open. As > far as I can see, there are no clauses in these licences that allow me to > transform their data into another format; allow me to publish these new > materials on a web site; and allow me to provide an end-user licence for > others to use these new materials. > > -- > Barry Cornelius > http://www.northeastraces.com/ > http://www.thehs2.com/ > http://www.rowmaps.com/ > http://www.oxonpaths.com/ > http://www.barrycornelius.com/ > >
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