DISQUS

Charles · 2 years ago

Thanks for pointing out the Environment Agency's idiocy. This is a part of government which has all this data about water and flooding yet refuses to let us see it. Why??

The only possible useful purpose for Crown Copyright is to see that people don't take a dataset and then alter data within it to their own ends. However, that can be sorted by having checksums (a single number generated by doing some maths on the data) - if you change the data, your checksum changes, and it's obvious because you can refer back to the original.

Other than that, CC is just restrictive - nothing more.