The OS are at it again, and I’ve rewritten the disjointed rant in our Soapbox section to include current and relevant information. Of immediate concern to some webmasters is the recent change of attitude of the OS regarding license terms for displaying map segments on walking websites. The current state of play is described in full.
The arguments about our national resources of public data are better expressed by people with more knowledge and experience of it, and there are links to some very good sites and articles on the subject.
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Hello Geoff - found this page via comment on Bearded Git’s blog - can’t actually see your blog listed on your main website. Am I looking in the wrong place? The question of OS maps came up recently on the OFC site - it’s amazing that OS expect website owners to scan paper maps - do they really think people will want to do that? The whole thing looks a mess but I expect OS want to restrict users as much as possible, despite the public money that has gone into mapping in the past.
Phil
Hi Phil.
There isn’t a link to the blog from the main site yet, that will involve uploading around 300 pages!. This blog thing is just an experiment to see how it goes.
The OS license situation has always been a disgrace, these recent developments have made it even worse and merely clarified how bad it now is. I was almost on the point of succumbing and buying a license until I heard about this, I’ll stick to my outline maps now.
Actually paper maps can be bought unfolded as pristine sheets - could they tell the difference between scans of those and digital images?.