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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 Gower Street London WC1E 6BT +44 (0)20 7679 5919 [log in to unmask] www.vr.ucl.ac.uk www.spacesyntax.org > -----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