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OS Licensing

The Ordnance Survey now offers two distinctly different licences to meet the different needs that exist within the market.

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The first, the Plan, Design and Build licence is for projects that are identifiable by title and involve the design, construction, acquisition, disposal or management of land or property to which the OS Sitemap data relates. It has been developed specifically for users of DXF (CAD) data, has a duration of 12, 18, 24 or 30 months and can be archived for 13 years.

The second, the Internal Business Use licence is for customers who are purchasing the data for a different non-project use. This includes individual homeowners who require an OS Siteplan to support a planning application.

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Plan, Design and Build Licence		Internal Business Use Licence
Data sharing between the customer and other project participants allowed.		Customer can use the data as a tool in the administration of their day-to-day business.
Choice of licence period – 12 months minimum, 18 months, 24 months or 30 months.		Right to use the mapping and data as widely within the customer’s business as they choose.
Built in discount on price for periods longer than 12 months.		Customer cannot share Ordnance Survey data with other organisations.
Right to archive for up to 13 years for legal or regulatory reasons after the licence has ended, for looking at the information to answer queries arising on the specific project in that period.		The licence is valid for one year from date of licensing.
Rights for customers to use in ‘land and property’ projects.		Customer has no right to use the data for any purpose after one year.
Customers must provide project name when they purchase this licence.		Further use only allowed if licence is repurchased at the end of the licence period.
Use of the data on up to a maximum of 40 terminals per project permitted.		No right to archive for whatever reason beyond the term of the licence.
Upper limit of 6 sq km on the amount of geographic data that can be licensed.		No limit on the area of data that can be licensed.
No rights to commercially exploit the data in any way.		No rights to commercially exploit the data in any way.
Customer can appoint subcontractors to undertake work on their behalf, that is viewed as a temporary extension of their project skill base.		Customers can appoint subcontractors to undertake work on their behalf, that is viewed as a temporary extension of their internal use.
Unlimited production of paper copies from data for use within the specified project allowed.		Unlimited production of paper copies from data is allowed.
Production of reports for project client allowed.		Production of reports for clients allowed.
Royalty tariff higher than for IBU 12-month licence.		Use to meet a statutory obligation allowed.
		Limited rights granted to publish Ordnance Survey data for ‘display and promotion’.
		Use of Ordnance Survey trademarks or closely similar names to Ordnance Survey trademarks not permitted.