Can users of my application create their own location information using OS OpenSpace?
Yes, the OS OpenSpace API provides a range of functionality to let you create different data and location information in a web application. The OS OpenSpace Developer Agreement sets out the position regarding the ownership and licensing of the copyright and other intellectual property rights in: • any data supplied to you by us; and • any data created by you. Primarily, you cannot use any data you create for any commercial purpose.
Yes, the OS OpenSpace API provides a range of functionality that lets your end-users create different data and location information in your web application. They can also display information they have collected from elsewhere. Provided that any data your end-users create is not derived in any way from, and does not contain any elements of, Ordnance Survey Data, then it amounts to what we call ‘end-user’s data’ and we do not claim ownership of any copyright or other intellectual property rights in such data. Ordnance Survey does, however, ask for a non-exclusive licence to display such data within your web application, to enable us to provide the basic service to you and end-users. Any data created by your end-users that is derived directly, or indirectly, from Ordnance Survey mapping amounts to what we call ‘derived data’. Please refer to the definitions of ‘Derived Data’, ‘Your Data’ and ‘End User’s Data’ in the OS OpenSpace Developer Agreement and End User Licence Agreement, along wi
