Adding rowmaps opendata to OSM

Furthermore the actual licensing of many of the rowmaps files is not clear as they have been made available directly to Barry Cornelius (rowmap owner) and there is not proper audit trace of the actual licence. Many local authorities have a sketchy understanding of the implications of the derived data aspect of Ordnance Survey licences. A formal declaration by the Ordnance Survey that they not not have a claim to PRoW routes IPR is needed case-by-case. It's actually more fun to go out & survey them: http://sk53-osm.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/10-years-of-footpath-mapping-for.html

Thanks both.

You should be asking and discussing this on the the talk-gb list.

Is that a subsection of this site?

And no, the OS version of the OGL is not suitable for use with OSM.

Is it trace-over-able, in the same way as the Bing aerial shots are, for example?

It's actually more fun to go out & survey them

I do! But it typically involves more pen and less GPS.

As I understand OSM and copytright. You should not trace over copyrighted tracks in any format, converting them into a gpx would not avoid the copyright problem. We have permission to use Bing that is why we can use it.