Firstly, I hope I'm not asking too general a question.
I'm being told by one of our public agencies that I can't be given permission to republish a dataset for protected areas in a simple format, such as GeoJSON. Given that they only make these available as SHP downloads (no online viewer either), it would be quite simple and helpful to enable this, for non-commercial purposes of course.
But republishing is forbidden! The reason, I'm told after requesting permission, is that the timeliness of the datasets might be compromised as they are updated on an irregular (though quite infrequent) basis.
Has anyone had any experience with this? Do you think it falls foul of INSPIRE regulations (specifically Article 13) given that their lack of a service allowing for easy viewing of the protected areas is a restriction on the use of (and potentially access to) the data?
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I'm being told by one of our public agencies that I can't be given permission to republish a dataset for protected areas in a simple format, such as GeoJSON. Given that they only make these available as SHP downloads (no online viewer either), it would be quite simple and helpful to enable this, for non-commercial purposes of course.
But republishing is forbidden! The reason, I'm told after requesting permission, is that the timeliness of the datasets might be compromised as they are updated on an irregular (though quite infrequent) basis.
Has anyone had any experience with this? Do you think it falls foul of INSPIRE regulations (specifically Article 13) given that their lack of a service allowing for easy viewing of the protected areas is a restriction on the use of (and potentially access to) the data?
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