Matthew’s just updated ScenicOrNot, the little game that we built to provide a ‘Scenicness’ dataset for Mapumental, to include a data dump of the raw data. The dump will update automatically on a weekly basis, but currently it contains averaged scores for 181,188 1*1km grid squares, representing 83% of the Geograph dataset we were using, or 74% of all the grid squares in Great Britain. It is, in other words, really pretty good, and, I think, unprecedented in coverage as a piece of crowd sourced geodata about a whole country.
It’s available under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial 3 Licence, and we greatly look forward to seeing what people do with it.
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June 26th, 2009 at 11:36am
This is great stuff. However, is the nc licence appropriate? Or even required? Technically, this is derived from work with a by-sa licence, so shouldn’t it have the same licence?
June 26th, 2009 at 12:16pm
I don’t see how the results of voting on a photo count as a derived work – the photo has not been “recast, transformed, or adapted” to use the wording of the CC-BY-SA-2.0 licence. If what you’re saying is true, wouldn’t any review of any CC-BY-SA work have to be released under the same licence?
June 26th, 2009 at 1:12pm
Sorry, it was a bit of a knee-jerk response to seeing the NC licence :) In all liklihood you are right, the original hasn’t been transformed or is even identifable from the single numeric data point generated! Still, I think losing the NC element gives the data more chance of being used, cited, and further improved.
June 29th, 2009 at 4:50pm
Hi Paul,
I don’t think there’s any use in hiding the fact that we’re not a very well off organisation, and ScenicOrNot is not a core project for us, it was just a little toy to generate some data to make Mapumental as good as possible.
As a consequence if someone was willing to give us some money for ScenicOrNot data, we’d happily use it, and then spend it on other things like TheyWorkForYou.
best,
Tom