On Tue, 8 Dec 2020 at 13:18, Dave F via Talk-GB <talk-gb@openstreetmap.org> wrote: > > https://snipboard.io/scrm5R.jpg > > There you go, free of any supposed copyright infringement.
Not quite. Before we're able to use any third-party data in OSM, we need to verify that it is available under a suitable licence. So you would still need to get permission from Wiltshire Council to use that data, and ensure that any required attribution statements or disclaimers are correctly recorded at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#Public_Rights_of_Way_Data_from_local_councils . If you trust the author of Rowmaps, you could make use of the Wiltshire data that's available from https://www.rowmaps.com/datasets/WT/ (which claims to be re-usable under the OGL v3) once the appropriate attribution statement is added to the OSM Contributors page linked above. However the precise attribution statement required isn't clear, and the copyright text in the files on rowmaps conflicts with the statement that it's available under the OGL v3. (If the text in the files is correct, then they're incompatible with OSM use, due to the additional sub-licensing requirement.) So I think we'd be better to wait for a successful outcome at https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/public_rights_of_way_gis_data_9 before using the Wiltshire data. Many other councils have made their data available under terms we can use in OSM, as you can see from https://osm.mathmos.net/prow/open-data/ . Robert. -- Robert Whittaker _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb