Re: FN-FORUM: Ordnance Survey map data

date posted 16th May 2007 14:54



Anthony Cartmell wrote:
>
>> It gets even more complex when you consider the update information
>> supplied by the OS.
>
> Luckily I'm not actually interested, particularly, in the actual map
> images. All I'm worried about is whether my cycling routes site needs
> an OS license to display people's routes (some of which may have been
> manually traced from an OS map, and many have been manually traced
> from the Google Maps API maps).
>
> Any other site that uses Google Maps for input of UK locations, and
> which then displays those points publicly, would also seem to require
> some OS license or other. I bet you none of them do.
My dad has done a load of work on mapping out our area for cyclists,
marking the rideability of pretty much every bridleway in the county.
His routes are now being published by the Local Authority- they hold the
definitive county map so they can give permission for that to be used.

Works well in one county, maybe less so across the whole country...

-ben