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Specific Use Contract (SUC) - Overview

User Derived Datasets

What are User Derived Datasets?

Any datasets which a Partner has created utilising Ordnance Survey licensed data (in whole or in part) together with additional third party data, such additional data must be a fundamental component of the dataset created.

User Derived Datasets shall comprise:

  1. Polygons, meaning a geographical representation of a feature type or group of features (for example trees, fields or houses);
  2. Points, meaning the national grid coordinate for a particular feature; and/or
  3. Height Grids, meaning points on a grid which indicate the height of a particular feature.

Summary of Conditions of Use

Restrictions on partners:

  • Can only granted limited rights which must not exceed those termed as Standard Licensed Use.
  • Can not name or brand using Ordnance Survey’s brand names/trade marks etc

The User Derived Dataset must not:

a) have more than 5% (five per cent) of its Polygons coincident with Polygons contained within Ordnance Survey’s datasets;

b) contains no more than 5 (five) million Points;

c) contain more than 2 quantifiable height measurements; or

d) depict roads.

  • The User Derived Dataset must contain new data added by the Partner. The TOID® (a number that uniquely identifies every feature as used by OS MasterMap), the national grid co-ordinates or the classification of features utilised by Ordnance Survey may be used. 
  • Partner can only licence the User Derived Dataset to organisations as electronic image or a data format for utilisation by a geographical information system.

Restrictions on end-users:

  • Can only be granted limited rights which must not exceed those rights which are defined as Standard Licensed Use.

Pricing

  • Royalties are payable by the Partner for each User Derived Dataset in each quarter of each contract year. 
  • Royalties only cover licensing of the User Derived Dataset for a period of 1 year.
  • The level of royalties is dependant on the Ordnance Survey datasets used.  There is a minimum annual royalty requirement of £1000 for the use of OS MasterMap Topography Layer. For all other datasets a minimum annual royalty of £1000 will apply from year three onwards.
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