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How you can use OS OpenSpace
We want developers and entrepreneurs to be able to create exciting web applications and for individuals and groups to enhance their own websites with our mapping.
You can create applications for your own websites using our mapping as the backdrop, as long as it complies with the OS OpenSpace Developer Agreement. The OS OpenSpace API allows you to place any kind of information that has a geographic reference (such as National Grid reference or latitude/longitude) on top of our maps.
You can use the OS OpenSpace API on more than one page of the publicly available URL folder you register when you sign up. The available data per day will be for all pages at the registered URL folder.
Presenting information on top of the maps
The OS OpenSpace API has a variety of functions to display different data on top of the maps. You can use markers (OS OpenSpace standard marker or your own), lines, polygons and pop-up boxes with the content or media you wish. Check the documentation if you need more information.
Commercialising an OS OpenSpace application
You are permitted to display paid-for advertising and sponsorship advertising for which you can obtain revenue. Community, social or volunteer group websites can collect donations to sustain their web applications. Not for profit and charity websites can collect end user donations via their URL.
The OS OpenSpace Developer Agreement does not allow any financial gain to be derived directly from accessing the our data from your application. For example, you may not charge the end-user for the use of your application. For details, refer to the definition of 'Financial Gain', 'Purpose' and Section 6 of the OS OpenSpace Developer Agreement.
If you are interested in commercialising your application, you may want to consider OS OpenSpace Pro and our Licensed Partner Programme to help develop your idea further. For more information, please contact us.
Advertising on an OS OpenSpace application
You are allowed to put ads on your website.
Using in social networks
You can use OS OpenSpace in a social network, provided that the OS OpenSpace application that you create is publicly available.
Using on a private networks
You cannot use your application on a private network or password protect it. The URL folder you register and the application you build must be publicly accessible and not behind a password, internal network or other form of restriction.
Creating a database of location based information
When you use OS OpenSpace to geocode data by adding locations or attributes to it that have been directly accessed from and/or made available by our mapping data, then the resulting data is 'derived data', because it is derived from our data. We would own such 'derived data', but we grant you a non-exclusive, personal licence to use it within your web application. Please refer to the definition of 'Derived Data' and Clause 5.4 of the OS OpenSpace Developer Agreement.
You can also use your geocoded data and use OS OpenSpace to plot this. This data remains your own, provided that any data you create is not derived in any way from, and does not contain any elements of, our data, then it amounts to what we call 'your data', and we do not claim ownership of any copyright or other intellectual property rights in such data. We do, however, ask you to grant us a non-exclusive licence to display such data within your web application to enable us to provide the basic service to you and your end-users. Please refer to the definition of 'Your Data' and Clause 5.5 of the OS OpenSpace Developer Agreement. When you are simply using OS OpenSpace to display data that you have geocoded yourself, by other means, your geocoded data remains your own.
Creating user location information using OS OpenSpace
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, our 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. We do, 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 our 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 with Clauses 5.6 and 2.4 respectively, which set out the position on ownership of these three types of data.
Building an application for a public-sector organisation
Organisations in the public sector can use OS OpenSpace provided that the website is publicly accessible and meets the terms and conditions of the OS OpenSpace Developer Agreement, including the daily usage limits.