Yes, out of bounds for now but coming out of copyright. Just as I said: > The OS <strikethrough>County<\strikethrough> 1:2500 series includes addresses but is only just coming out of copyright.
If we can get hold them and scan them, then I see no problem with using them when their copyright period ends. The link to warks site was just to give folks an idea of what I'm on about. Rob On 7 May 2014 10:23, "SK53" <sk53....@gmail.com> wrote: > The 1:2500 maps, and many other large scale maps on the Warwickshire site > were digitised and rectified by Landmark Information > Group<http://www.landmark.co.uk/>, > who own the copyright in the images and of course in their rectified form. > Landmark. Landmark have a commericial business, Old-Maps which sells > reproduction (IIRC for non-commercial use) online<http://www.old-maps.co.uk/>. > > > The use of these maps at the moment for OSM or OHM purposes appears to be > "out-of-bounds" > > Jerry > > > On 6 May 2014 22:17, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Correction: I don't mean OS Country series (that seems to be older and >> probably now out of copyright). What I really mean is OS National Grid >> 1:2500 series, which can be seen at: >> http://maps.warwickshire.gov.uk/historical/ >> >> Rob >> >> >> On 3 May 2014 14:15, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> The OS County series includes addresses but is only just coming out of >>> copyright. I have access to a slippy map with a few sheets scanned but they >>> look like they're too recent and still in copyright. >>> >>> It's Chris Fleet at NLS that we need to speak to. He's spoken at sotm >>> Scotland in the past. I'll follow it up with the Scotland group. >>> >>> Rob >>> On 3 May 2014 00:09, "Tim Waters" <chippy2...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Those are some good examples - they appear to be around the same scale >>>> also. >>>> They are monochrome and don't have addresses which should limit a >>>> couple of the types of the tasks. Could be worth trying the Building >>>> Inspector with this dataset. >>>> >>>> I wonder if there's anyone from the NLS on list? >>>> >>>> >>>> On 1 May 2014 19:11, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Yes, all Open. It's great. >>>>> >>>>> In terms of how we could use it here in the UK, the best data I can >>>>> think of is the OS Town Plans for Scotland that NLS have as individual map >>>>> sheets and as a slippy map: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19&lat=57.14443&lon=-2.1054&layers=B000000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF >>>>> >>>>> There is also some great London data: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> http://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=19&lat=51.52008&lon=-0.12473&layers=B000000000FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF >>>>> >>>>> We have a pretty good relation with NLS. Is there any interest in our >>>>> community to enquire about working with them? >>>>> >>>>> Rob >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On 30 April 2014 15:46, Tim Waters <chippy2...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Hi Rob, >>>>>> >>>>>> it has been on the list before - but they have recently revamped it >>>>>> and added many more features, and maps! In my opinion it's a shining >>>>>> example of how geo crowdsourcing applications should be. >>>>>> >>>>>> I believe it has been developed internally with the library - and I >>>>>> think they are just using Mapbox to host the tiles (originally coming >>>>>> from >>>>>> the warper at maps.nypl.org) >>>>>> >>>>>> The code is on github: https://github.com/NYPL/building-inspectorand the >>>>>> data is available to download as well. >>>>>> http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/general/data >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers, >>>>>> >>>>>> Tim >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 29 April 2014 22:44, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com>wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Don't think I've spotted this on the historic mailing list so I'll >>>>>>> post it. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> NYPL digitizing old maps using crowd sourcing. I just gave it a go >>>>>>> and it works very well. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> http://buildinginspector.nypl.org/ >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Looks like Mapbox has some involvement, or at least the map display >>>>>>> has a similar style to mapbox's. I wonder whether the software is open >>>>>>> as >>>>>>> we can use this to help OpenHistoricMap. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Rob >>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Historic mailing list >>>>>>> histo...@openstreetmap.org >>>>>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Historic mailing list >> histo...@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/historic >> >> >
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