Spaced-OoooO-Out

Effect on EDINA of OS data release

Thu, 08 Apr 2010

It is clearly going to take some time for the dust to settle, but GoGeo have a nice summary of the datasets "in" and "out" of each prospective license. No doubt about it, the JISC-OS licensed data from EDINA is good value, but.....

and here's the big "but" the new JISC-OS licence is very poor. There is almost (and I say almost as there is some residual value) no point in using the data if you want to publish anything electronically (which means just about any journal article). The raster-only requirement and miniscule pixel count is severely restrictive. Which means, that if you want to use anything with a "yes" in it in the right-hand column, you need to download it from the OS as you would likely be breaking the JISC-OS licence if you used a version downloaded from EDINA. If you want unrestricted publication of spatial data (or maps), avoid EDINA sourced data.

Peter Burnhill wrote at 2010-04-10 19:12:

The full statement is on a news link from the edina.ac.uk website and on the Digimap login page.
We are keen to learn from users of Digimap how you wish us to take best advantage of these changes in availability and licensing. Contact us by email on edina@ed.ac.uk or leave a comment on the Digimap blog, http://edinadigimap.blogspot.com/
The key task for EDINA Digimap is to provide ease and continuity of access to a whole range of geo-spatial datasets, including re-use in materials that are shared in research and teaching. So we are seeking clarification from Ordnance Survey regarding the licence terms that can apply to the data available through Digimap now covered under OS OpenData.

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