Section 4.2 - Providing extracts of the Definitive Map
Extracts of the Definitive Map can be made subject to certain restrictions. The Definitive Map is based upon Ordnance Survey material and as a result is subject to Copyright. Extracts can only be provided for one of the following reasons:
- For internal business use.
- For supply to the public following an individual request for the Definitive Map.
- For public inspection of mapping/statutory register.
- For use in judicial/statutory inquiry proceedings.
The sections below describe the restrictions that are in place as a result of copyright legislation [Copyright Act 1988]. The following guidelines are designed to help officers ensure that the provisions of the Act are in force. Most of the requirements can be satisfied by applying the relevant sticker to the sheet that is being produced. Material older than fifty years is no longer restricted by Copyright and can be copied without permission. However, the OS ask that the following acknowledgement is placed on copies of 'out of copyright' OS material.
Reproduced from the(year of publication) Ordnance Survey map.
Officers are expected, as part of the licence, to take reasonable precautions to prevent unauthorised copying of Ordnance Survey material by others.
4.11.1 Hard copy extracts of the 2000 Definitive Map
Paper extracts of the Definitive Map (relevant date Dec 2000) must have the following sticker attached.(Note that copies of whole sheets will already have the relevant copyright statement included.)
Paper extracts will also require a sticker showing the key (Legend). The following sticker should be attached to all extracts of the 2000 Definitive Map.
4.11.2 Hard copy extracts of the working copy produced from GIS
All extracts produced from the "Working copy" should have the following stickers attached and officers should ensure that the appropriate key (legend) from the GIS is included:
4.11.3 All other extracts (e.g earlier Definitive Maps)
The following sticker should be attached to all other extracts that do not fall into either of the two categories above. Eg. 1991 Definitive Map:
