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Data Exploration Licence

Also known as OS Data Exploration Licence, Ordnance Survey Data Exploration Licence.

Commercial use
not allowed
Share alike
not required
Attribution
required (keep the copyright and license notices)
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Canonical URI https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/DataExplorationLicence

Permissions

  • Derive from the text Creating a new work from the work, such as a translation, adaptation or arrangement of it or of a part of it.
  • Modify from the text Altering the work, for example by updating it, without creating a new work; an alteration that creates a new work is Derive.

    Duties

    • Modification notice from the text Marking a changed work as changed, saying how it differs from the original and keeping earlier notices of change.
  • No-warranty notice from the text Attaching a notice that the work is provided without any warranty.
  • Reproduce from the text Making copies of the work in any form.
  • Share alike from the text Adaptations have to be licensed under the same license or one the license names as compatible.

    Duties

    • Notice from the text Notice: keeping the license and copyright notices with every copy.

Prohibitions

  • Add statement from the text Not permitted: Add statement. Attaching terms, notices or statements of one's own to the work or to one's modifications when passing it on.
  • Charge distribution fee from the text Not permitted: Charge distribution fee. Charging a fee for the act of providing a copy of the work to someone else.
  • Charge license fee from the text Not permitted: Charge license fee. Charging a fee for granting someone a license to the work.
  • Commercial use from the text Not permitted: Commercial use. Using the work to generate income, directly or indirectly, for example by selling it or by using it in advertising.
  • Derivative works from the text Not permitted: Derivative works. Distributing an adaptation of the work and making it available to the public.
  • Display from the text Not permitted: Display. Showing the work to the public without making a copy the viewer keeps.
  • Distribute from the text Not permitted: Distribute. Providing copies of the work to the public or to anyone else.
  • Grant use from the text Not permitted: Grant use. Granting third parties the right to use the work.
  • Present from the text Not permitted: Present. Performing the work in public, including by broadcast or other communication to the public.
  • Promote from the text Not permitted: Promote. Using the name or trademarks of the licensor or of contributors to endorse or promote a product.

License-wide duties

This license states no duties that apply to the work as a whole.

Clauses

Warranty disclaimer

It is your responsibility to ensure that the Exploration Data you request is what you need. Exploration Data is provided ‘as is’ and without any warranty or condition express or implied, statutory or otherwise as to its quality or fitness for purpose. Except as expressly stated in this Licence, all conditions, warranties, terms and undertakings express or implied statutory or otherwise in respect of the Exploration Data are hereby excluded to the fullest extent permitted by law.

Info

Target asset types
Dataset
Region / jurisdiction
Worldwide
Validity
Not stated, from 2018-01-01 until 2018-12-31
Source
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/licensing/licences/data-exploration.html
Legal code
https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/licensing/licences/data-exploration.html
This description is published under
https://dalicc.net/licenselibrary/CC-BY-4.0
Publisher
Ordnance Survey
Attribution name
Ordnance Survey
SPDX identifier
Data-Exploration-Licence (provisional, the record declares none)
DALICC identifier
DataExplorationLicence

This record is published under CC BY 4.0. Credit it as: DALICC License Library, DALICC - Verein zur Förderung der Rechtssicherheit in der Datenbewirtschaftung, https://dalicc.net, CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The license it describes belongs to its publisher.

History

This license model has 2 versions. Version 2 is the one served today; every earlier version keeps its own address, so a conclusion drawn from one of them can still be checked against it.

  1. Version 2 current2026-09-24 Giray Havur

    The content review of 2026-09-15 added 1 license-wide duty and 1 statement, changed 2 identification details and recorded the review state. Later changes named the license the record itself is published under.

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    • changed cc:legalcode <https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/documents/licences/data-exploration-licence.pdf>

      was cc:legalcode <https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/licensing/licences/data-exploration.html>

      Review finding cc:legalcode and dct:source both pointed at https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/licensing/licences/data-exploration.html, which returns 404, so the record had no working link to the licence at all. cc:legalcode now points at the terms PDF, https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/documents/licences/data-exploration-licence.pdf, and dct:source at the product page, https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/licensing/data-exploration-licence. Both resolve.

    • added dalicc:reviewStatus dalicc:Reviewed

      Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

    • added dalicc:reviewedOn "2026-09-15"^^xsd:date

      Review state Every record records how far it has come in the editorial workflow and when it was last checked against the legal text.

    • added dalicc:validityType dalicc:specifyDate

      Review finding The record was the only one in the library without a dalicc:validityType, and it carries scho:startDate 2018-01-01 and scho:endDate 2018-12-31. dalicc:specifyDate is the vocabulary term the composer pairs with those two properties, so it was added. The licence itself is time limited: "You can use the OS Data for 6 months from the date you first access the OS Data", three months for third party data.

    • changed dct:source <https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/licensing/data-exploration-licence>

      was dct:source <https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/licensing/licences/data-exploration.html>

      Review finding cc:legalcode and dct:source both pointed at https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/business-and-government/licensing/licences/data-exploration.html, which returns 404, so the record had no working link to the licence at all. cc:legalcode now points at the terms PDF, https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/documents/licences/data-exploration-licence.pdf, and dct:source at the product page, https://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/licensing/data-exploration-licence. Both resolve.

    • added duty cc:Attribution

      Review finding The record had no attribution duty at all, although the licence makes the acknowledgement mandatory: "You need to display the OS acknowledgement statement. To acknowledge that the OS Exploration Data is from OS and is protected by law, you must clearly display the following statement alongside your use of the data: Crown copyright and database rights Ordnance Survey Limited (insert year)." A licence-wide cc:Attribution duty was added, licence-wide because the duty is owed for any use and not only when the data is passed on.

    • added dct:license <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/>

      Manual edit Every record is published under CC BY 4.0. cc:license names the record DALICC keeps of that licence; dct:license now names it by the address Creative Commons publishes it at, so that a consumer matching the canonical IRI finds it.

  2. Version 1

    The version this model had before the content review of 2026-09-15.

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Every change names the reason behind it: a finding of the content review, one of its library-wide decisions, the metadata that review wrote onto every record, or a hand edit. None of it is legal advice.

Nothing on this page is legal advice. What a license means is decided by its text; ask a legal advisor before you rely on it.