Licences

Promap and the Ordnance Survey work together to ensure that mapping is protected under Crown copyright by virtue of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Copying of mapping can be authorised under different copyright licences depending upon the intended use.

Plan, Design, Build Licence

This is a licence to provide exports of Ordnance Survey data for use in conjunction with specific project-based activities and offers a choice of licence periods.

The key provisions of the PDB Licence are as follows:

• Use within your business for project specific work to include data sharing with project managers and other users involved in the project (including contractors subject to a contractor licence)
• Choice of licence periods - 12, 18, 24 or 30 months
• Use of data on multiple terminals (up to 40 terminals)
• Right to archive one paper or electronic copy for a period of 13 years after the licence has expired
• Unlimited production of paper copies from the licensed data for use within the project
• Production of reports for project client (providing they do not carry advertising)

Please note this licence does not permit:

• The display of data on or via the Internet
• The rights to commercially exploit the underlying OS data in any way
• The aggregation of a total area of greater than 6km² for a single project