[Qgis-user] Public Sector Mapping Agreement

[Sam Vekemans]

Interesting..
Perhaps i miss-wrote..
I don't work for, nor represent koordinates.com, the website
specifically has the option to choose the licence of the data being
added. (I'm just a Fan of the website)


'my hopes' is that the data will be available on koordinates.com, and
kool things like wfs, wms, transparent feature rendering systems will
be available ... because i don't own the website, i can't say if or
when that will happen :)


It's interesting how the term 'Open' is mearly just a 'Buzz word', to
make it sould cool  .... lol.


cheers,
Sam

On 3/3/11, Andrew Chapman <andrew.chapman at donkagen.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Sam
> If I understand what you are proposing, I don't think that it would be
> permitted within the OS licence.
> Use will be free to approved organisations, but only to them and
> sub-contractors who have signed an approved sub-licence agreement. The goal
> seems to be to make it easy for anyone in central and local government (or
> working for or with them) to use the data - the community has paid for the
> production of the data out of taxation so it is silly to expect to have to
> pay for it all over again. Where the use would be commercial, OS is required
> to generate income to reduce its costs.
> The weblink I initially provided gives all the legal conditions and a
> slightly less confusing and relatively plain English explanation of what can
> and cannot be done.
>
> Andrew
> ________________________________________
> From: samvekemans at gmail.com [mailto:samvekemans at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Sam
> Vekemans
> Sent: 03 March 2011 20:18
> To: Andrew Chapman; osm-fork at googlegroups.com; Brendan Morley; Robert Coup;
> post; qgis-user at lists.osgeo.org; Ed Corkery
> Subject: Re: [Qgis-user] Public Sector Mapping Agreement
>
> Hi,
> Thats great news!
> Thanks for sharing
>
>
> FYI, one of the things im working on with the folks at koordinates.com
> is to upload and provide a direct link to the geo-data available from
> Ordnance Survay to koordinates.com, so then all of the data will be
> available at a central source, and in the same standard .shp file
> format.
>
>
> Koordinates.com also has API access, so the hopes is that their will
> be a way to directly extract data from koordinates.com to be usable
> for the qgis work.
>
>
>
> I already and downloaded a few sample files from it, so the linkage
> should not be that hard to make.
>
>
> cheers,
> sam
>
> On 3/3/11, Andrew Chapman <andrew.chapman at donkagen.co.uk> wrote:
>> Ordnance Survey is introducing their "Public Sector Mapping Agreement for
>> England and Wales" as of 1 April 2011. This is a major change to their
>> licensing and will provide free access to OS MasterMap and other layers to
>> all public bodies, layers of local government (including the approximately
>> 10,000 parish councils)... and also permit free sub-licensing to
>> subcontractors. Directly and, indirectly, this could dramatically increase
>> the number of potential users of QGIS. Details can be found at
>>
> www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/business/sectors/government/publicpsmafaq
>> s.html.
>> I'm a member of a parish council, but am working with the county council
>> (plus Environment Agency, Highways Agency, etc) in different areas looking
>> at local community sourcing of GIS data, but especially relating to
>> flooding.
>> To encourage take-up for both GIS and QGIS, it may help if there were
>> tutorials to take a new user of GIS through the steps to download data
> from
>> Ordnance Survey (probably only in GZ format for the topology layers).
>> To date I've been getting data as shapefiles - when I last tried (an
> earlier
>> version) QGIS wouldn't load .gz and the support for .gml may have been
>> incomplete.
>> Is anyone else using Ordnance Survey .gz files directly?
>> Would the best advice for users new to GIS be to convert to shapefiles or
>> use a database (something I've not yet managed to do)?
>> Are there any UK users involved with town or parish councils?
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>>
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