[Qgis-user] Public Sector Mapping Agreement

[Andrew Chapman]

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
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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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