APGB Style Guide

Introduction
This document provides guidance to APGB Users on the correct use of copyright statements, watermarking and logos with the APGB Licensed Data.

Licensed Data refers to any of the data supplied to you under the APGB contract including 5cm, 12.5cm & 25cm Aerial Photography, 2m Digital Surface Model Data and 5m Digital Terrain Model Data.


Copyright Statement
 You must clearly display the following copyright statement in a prominent position when reproducing APGB Licensed Data

© Bluesky International Limited and Getmapping Limited 1999-2020

© Bluesky International Limited 2021 and onwards

You must use a font size of at least 7 – 8 so that it allows the copyright statement to be clearly legible to the naked eye.


Watermarking
 If you are displaying any of the Licensed Data online to non-licensed partners, then you must watermark it to protect our IPR as set out in the Member License Agreement. Your watermark must be embedded over the Licensed Data to ensure that there is copyright protection on the Licensed Data.

 Watermarking must extend over the entire visible area of the Licensed Data and not just around the edges, and must be created such that the data is usable for the intended purpose but sufficiently obscured to discourage the copying of data for other uses.

Note that watermarking is not required for internal business use and where the data is shared only with other licensed users (including contractors and Innovation Partners who have signed the appropriate license to use).


Zoom Guidance
 To get the best out of the imagery, we recommend viewing the data at the following scales:
25cm Aerial Photography: It is recommended that to get the best use of 25cm imagery you should view it at a scale of up to 1:1000. You can also view the data at larger scales but will start to see the individual pixels beyond 1:1000.

 12.5cm Aerial Photography: It is recommended that to get the best use of 12.5cm imagery you should view it at a scale of up to 1:500. You can also view the data at larger scales but will start to see the individual pixels beyond 1:500.