Effect on EDINA of OS data release

Thursday, 8 April, 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.

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