There is a service level agreeement between ESRC and OS and data is
distributed thoruihg EDINA, one of the JISC data centres. It was all sorted
long ago and no academic user in the UK needs to ever worry about
copyright. Data cannot be deposited at the Archive on OS because it is
already deposited in Edinburgh at EDINA. The Archive and EDINA are both
JISC services so there is no need. In fact The Archive operate the one stop
shop for registering UK census and OS users from academia in UK. OS have
data sets that enable web mapping and display - go to EDINA to find these.
None of this helps those outside the UK and OS maps cannot be put on any
private server or even university server without checking that the products
are web maps. Those outside the academic community in the UK cannot get OS
products without paying for them, and this means that any web server oepn
to the world cannot put up OS maps, even if you have paid for them because
the license is only for personal academic use
Mike
At 09:14 13/02/2004, Alan Penn wrote:
>I believe that you are correct that all of those would be in breach of
>Ordnance Survey copy right rules although they may well be amenable to
>negotiation for the ESCR archive since almost all UK academic users have
>access to the OS data through Digimap.
>
>I wonder about the situation with respect to an axial map traced over
>the OS map...
>
>Alan Penn
>Professor of Architectural and Urban Computing
>The Bartlett School of Graduate Studies
>University College London
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [log in to unmask] [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>On
> > Behalf Of Ruth Conroy Dalton
> > Sent: 12 February 2004 20:10
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: data sharing
> >
> > What are the copyright issues of posting data on
> > http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/?
> >
> > For example, I have a dxf map of Barnsbury, which I purchased (at no
> > little expense!) from Ordance Survey. I would assume that I would be
> > unable to post the original dxf map to make it universally available.
> > However, what about the "overlay" that I re-drew, concatenating
> > building-footprints into larger "block". Since the OS data was the
> > base-data, I assume that I would also be breaching copyright if I
> > posted the "traced" version on http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/
> >
> > Equally, what about the 3d model I constructed from the traced
> > map.... etc. etc.
> >
> > Is any one familiar with http://www.data-archive.ac.uk/ and/or
> > copyright issues?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Ruth Conroy Dalton
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