'Free to Use' Terms
The Ordnance Survey have also classified their terms relating to 'Free to Use' data or derived data. Please refer to the brief summary below:
What is Derived Data?
This is where, in the creation of new data, Ordnance Survey licenced data has been:
- Copied
- Replicated
- Reproduced
- Generalised
- Used to infer the position of new data
This applies equally to features and feature attribution
What is not classed as Derived Data?
- Data created by means of an independent survey
- Features geo-referenced using GPS which are then displayed on Ordnance Survey licenced data
- Data created as described above and then overlaid on Ordnance Survey licenced data for verification purposes (unless features are repositioned as a result)
- Additional, independently sourced, descriptive information or attribution that has been attached to Ordnance Survey licenced data
Definition of 'Free to Use Data' means Data created by the Customer:
a) using a topographic dataset as a source to infer the position of the data you create; or
b) which copies in part a feature (copying in part meaning where the data created partially coincides with a feature in the source topographic dataset);
In each case provided that the data:
(i) does not copy a feature in whole, and does not copy feature attribution in whole or in part;
(ii) does not represent a feature or feature attribution in the source topographic dataset;
(iii) is not a substitute for a feature or feature attribution in the source topographic dataset; and
(iv) can be used independently of licenced data
