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Following the seminar held on 3.9.01 on GIS, a meeting was arranged between NOF, Resource and OS on 20.11.01. The following are notes from that meeting:

Licensing issues

OS summarised the distinct business areas they deal with as follows:

Local authorities

For L.A.s the following is a useful summary of conditions attached to your OS licence. Project Managers should be liaising with their OSLO (OS Liaison Officer).

6 conditions of use covered by existing SLA:

  1. acknowledgement that map belongs to OS
  2. also must disable screen capture mechanism for map

    if large scale, vector maps must be rendered as raster images

  3. area defined - large scale used in an area no larger than needed - eg locality of recycling centres only with one small scale map of the County
  4. statement of purpose - what purpose of the map is ... ie not promoting commercial interests (ie click here for McDonalds). Key issue is commercial use – reuse/sale of the map itself, or mapping data
  5. must be overlaid with LA data to render it unusable for other purposes [the red dot for the location of the recycling centre would count!]
  6. must be watermarked from scales of 1:10,000 and upwards
  7. covered to put on the web as long as there is no charge to the citizen, and does not conflict with OS business or OS partners business [eg licensed partner on historical mapping]

If all these conditions are met, then the project is covered by existing Local Authority agreements and can therefore be delivered at no extra charge with the following proviso:

Conflict with OS business or partners

For projects interested in delivering historical component as part of project:

Historical data product - Landmark Group product - overlays historic with current mapping - for purchase by LAas - www.old-maps.co.uk. Already in existence in a digital format. But historic mapping is outside the OS/Landmark agreement when maps are out of Crown Copyright [ie more than 50 years old].

There is a strong possibility that LAs can share and swap mapping with other LAs and this should be checked with the OSLO in the authority.

Non LA Projects

Third parties [such as NDPBs, charities, universities or companies] can pass their data to a Local Authority, and the data can be made available by the LA in a GIS system on their website, as long as this is within the remit of the LA’s activities. The third party cannot use the GIS system directly on their website without applying for their own licence, however, they can link to it. Third Parties [as above] implementing their own GIS system on their website would need a separate licence – the costs are the same for all types of organisation (NDPB, charity, university or company).

Central Government

Education

 

Point of contact for queries on OS

There is now one point of contact for queries to OS. Your OS queries should be directed to:

Gisdigi@nof.org.uk . NOF will then forward the queries to OS and circulate the replies to all affected projects.

GIS Email discussion group:

All projects should remember to use the discussion site at

NOF-DIGITISATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK