Tile Licence

These maps are scanned from a personal collections built up by Richard Fairhurst, Mike Calder, Nick Burch, Andrew Rowbottom and the OpenStreetMap 7th edition project, plus the odd map from other contributors. They are the result of several years' scavenging in second-hand bookshops! Some are canvas, some folded paper, some flat; some are the of the new ones are Seventh Edition, most are New Popular Edition proper, but a few are War Office editions, or Scottish Popular Edition. These are scans of real, used documents, not a pristine 'for the record' collection.

Summary

• You can do what you like with the tiles as long as you're not making any money from them.
• You can trace as much as you like from these maps and then do whatever you like with the tracings - commercial or otherwise.
• If you do trace anything from them, please consider putting your tracings in the public domain, so other people can benefit.
• If you want the original scans in order to make money, it is possible that the copyright holder of the scans (be that Richard, Mike, Nick or Andrew) might be able to come to an agreement with you. Please contact webmaster@npemap.org.uk, and tell us which areas you are interested in. We can then direct your query on to the appropriate person for the maps of interest.

Detail

Please note that this was designed as the licence for the scans that the tiles have been derived from. It needs rewording to exactly match what you would want to do with the tiles. As the tile were derived from the maps, they are covered by the same licence.

1. Introduction

This document sets out the terms of use under which you are granted permission to use these scans of the New Popular Edition and other maps of the period. By downloading the scans, you consent to these terms. No use is permitted of the scans other than set out in this document, unless agreed in writing with the copyright holder.

This document must be read in conjunction with the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Licence 2.5 as detailed below.

For the purpose of this document, you should note the following distinction:

• The original documents were Crown Copyright Ordnance Survey. Because they are older than 50 years old, this copyright has expired.
• The scanned images are © 2005-2007 Richard Fairhurst, Mike Calder, Nick Burch and Andrew Rowbottom.
• No claim of copyright is made over the facts represented on the maps. You may therefore trace or automatically derive geographical information from the maps as you wish.

2. Copyright in the scans

The scanned images are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial Licence 2.5. You should read the full licence here. It is summarised in this 'human-readable' document.

This forbids you from reproducing the scans for commercial purposes ("any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation") without the permission of the copyright holder. It also requires you to include details of the license if you re-distribute the work, or any part of it.

For the avoidance of doubt, any provisions in the Creative Commons licence referring to "Derivative Work" do not apply to tracings (whether manual or automated), optical character recognition, or other representations of the geographic facts expressed on the maps. They apply to the scanned images and other images derived from them.

3. Making tracings from the maps

As stated above, you are free to trace or otherwise derive geographical information from the maps, and to distribute the resulting product as you wish.

You are very strongly encouraged to place any tracings you make in the public domain, so that others can benefit.

If you would like to negotiate other uses with the copyright holders, please e-mail webmaster@npemap.org.uk, and tell us which areas you are interested in, so we can forward your request to the copyright holder for those map(s).