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The UK Map Boundaries Dataset

1 pointsby pattleover 3 years ago

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mtmailover 3 years ago
I work with geographic dataset regularly and have acquired dataset in the past. This product wouldn&#x27;t be usable. It doesn&#x27;t list license and attribution requirements. &quot;Lifetime license&quot; might work for icons or website templates an author created themselves. But it&#x27;s unlikely the author drew those polygons. The data comes from somewhere and the license, be it public domain, CC-BY, ODbL, Royalmail&#x2F;Crown needs to be made clear. With ODbL the question would be if produced or derived work clauses apply (redistribution).<p>The website has no contact link, no postal address, one is buying from ... well, whom exactly?<p>Extracting, transforming, repackiging public datasets to resell them is fine, price is more than reasonable. But if license and attribution requirements are not listed one purchases a dataset that might lead to legal trouble.