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The #GeospatialCommission has published a list of 300 or so datasets it says are used during the housing and planning process, and highlights in particular a list of 50, "49 of which are covered by OGL".
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bringing-together-housing-land-and-planning-geospatial-datasets #Geo6 #ukhousing #geospatial #opendata (or not)
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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bringing-together-housing-land-and-planning-geospatial-datasets #Geo6 #ukhousing #geospatial #opendata (or not)
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The GC's list includes some useful datasets, but also quite a few errors. The effect is to overstate the number of #opendata resources that are readily available for the purposes of housing and planning in the UK.
I'll just run through some of the licensing issues …
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I'll just run through some of the licensing issues …
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Land Registry's INSPIRE Index Polygons are not re-usable under the Open Government Licence in any meaningful sense, because use of the polygons is subject to additional Ordnance Survey terms. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/inspire-index-polygons-spatial-data#conditions-of-use + https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/documents/licensing/inspire-index-polygons-terms.pdf #deriveddata not- #opendata
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Land Registry's Price Paid Data is also not re-usable under OGL, because use of data in the address fields requires a PAF licence from Royal Mail. ONS stats derived from PPD are open but the transaction-level data has little utility without addresses. https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/price-paid-data-downloads#using-or-publishing-our-price-paid-data
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Listed Buildings, and the other five Historic England datasets on the GC's long-list, are not covered by OGL. Historic England continues to apply a bespoke licence (derived from a defunct OS licence, itself adapted from the non-conformant OGL v1). https://services.historicengland.org.uk/NMRDataDownload/SecurePages/OSOpenDataLicenceAgreement.aspx
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From information at the link provided it is not clear that the BGS National Landslide Database is available either under OGL or as #opendata. https://www.bgs.ac.uk/products/geohazards/landslide.html
(There is WMS access under OGL, but WMS is only a picture of the data.)
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(There is WMS access under OGL, but WMS is only a picture of the data.)
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Only part of the Energy Performance Certificates dataset is covered by OGL. As with Price Paid Data, use of data in the address fields is restricted by Royal Mail. https://epc.opendatacommunities.org/docs/copyright
(Arguably this is less fatal to the utility of the EPC bulk data than it is to PPD.)
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(Arguably this is less fatal to the utility of the EPC bulk data than it is to PPD.)
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According to the GC's list some of the National Grid datasets are covered by an open licence. Good news if true. However, while the datasets are available for download, I can't see any terms for open re-use. https://www.nationalgridet.com/network-and-assets/network-route-maps + https://www.nationalgridet.com/terms-and-conditions
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