Comments on: OS puts the “No” back in Innovation http://www.edparsons.com/2009/05/os-puts-the-no-back-in-innovation/ The blog of Ed Parsons, Geographer. Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:11:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Time’s up for the Ordnance Survey…? http://www.edparsons.com/2009/05/os-puts-the-no-back-in-innovation/#comment-1767 Time’s up for the Ordnance Survey…? Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:13:03 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=879#comment-1767 [...] Police crime map fiasco?) then block, then bow to public pressure and make excuses after Ed Parsons blogged about it and a large contingent of interested parties from all walks of life who found the application [...] [...] Police crime map fiasco?) then block, then bow to public pressure and make excuses after Ed Parsons blogged about it and a large contingent of interested parties from all walks of life who found the application [...]

]]> By: Computing, GIS and Archaeology in the UK » Ordnance Survey not so bad after all? http://www.edparsons.com/2009/05/os-puts-the-no-back-in-innovation/#comment-1766 Computing, GIS and Archaeology in the UK » Ordnance Survey not so bad after all? Thu, 21 May 2009 09:02:19 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=879#comment-1766 [...] might have seen this post last week about how the Ordnance Survey once again saved the universe from un-approved uses of [...] [...] might have seen this post last week about how the Ordnance Survey once again saved the universe from un-approved uses of [...]

]]> By: Gavin Brock http://www.edparsons.com/2009/05/os-puts-the-no-back-in-innovation/#comment-1765 Gavin Brock Thu, 21 May 2009 04:20:05 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=879#comment-1765 Thanks Bill ;-) The OS do have something that does 3D... http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/freefun/flythroughs.html No details on how they generated them... Thanks Bill ;-)

The OS do have something that does 3D…

http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/freefun/flythroughs.html

No details on how they generated them…

]]> By: Bill Chadwick http://www.edparsons.com/2009/05/os-puts-the-no-back-in-innovation/#comment-1764 Bill Chadwick Wed, 20 May 2009 16:58:41 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=879#comment-1764 The French IGN have on line 3D mapping using Terra Explorer http://www.geoportail.fr Why don't the OS do on line 3D mapping themselves rather than leave it to clever individuals like Gavin ? The French IGN have on line 3D mapping using Terra Explorer

http://www.geoportail.fr

Why don’t the OS do on line 3D mapping themselves rather than leave it to clever individuals like Gavin ?

]]> By: Ed http://www.edparsons.com/2009/05/os-puts-the-no-back-in-innovation/#comment-1763 Ed Tue, 19 May 2009 23:06:52 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=879#comment-1763 @Justin, that is the case for data that is published on the web and then indexed by Google, that is not relevant in this case. @Justin, that is the case for data that is published on the web and then indexed by Google, that is not relevant in this case.

]]> By: Justin http://www.edparsons.com/2009/05/os-puts-the-no-back-in-innovation/#comment-1762 Justin Tue, 19 May 2009 22:55:46 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=879#comment-1762 Gavin has been reconnected. The issue is with Googles own Terms and Conditions. "These Terms state that by using your content (Ordnance Survey data) in Google Earth you/they grant Google a right to that data (”By submitting, posting or displaying Your Content in the Service, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute Your Content through the Service and as search results through Google Services" The OS are only trying to protect their intellectual property. Gavin has been reconnected. The issue is with Googles own Terms and Conditions.

“These Terms state that by using your content (Ordnance Survey data) in Google Earth you/they grant Google a right to that data (”By submitting, posting or displaying Your Content in the Service, you give Google a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publicly perform, publicly display and distribute Your Content through the Service and as search results through Google Services”

The OS are only trying to protect their intellectual property.

]]> By: Martin Daly http://www.edparsons.com/2009/05/os-puts-the-no-back-in-innovation/#comment-1761 Martin Daly Tue, 19 May 2009 16:42:56 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=879#comment-1761 Well you have to do that, so that OS can count your tile requests. But the API and the API key are bound together, so one is not supposed to use one (the key) without the other (the API), as with Google Maps et al. Well you have to do that, so that OS can count your tile requests.

But the API and the API key are bound together, so one is not supposed to use one (the key) without the other (the API), as with Google Maps et al.

]]> By: Ed http://www.edparsons.com/2009/05/os-puts-the-no-back-in-innovation/#comment-1760 Ed Tue, 19 May 2009 16:03:28 +0000 http://www.edparsons.com/?p=879#comment-1760 No I don't think this is a case of tile scraping, Gavin was using his API key.. No I don’t think this is a case of tile scraping, Gavin was using his API key..

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