Web scraping is legal (for UK/EU academic researchers)

TL;DR: In the UK and the EU, it is mostly legal to scrape data for non-commercial research. UPDATE [Oct 2026]: The EU Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM) Directive establishes two exceptions to copyright and database rights for text and data mining (TDM), defined as automated analytical techniques used to process digital text and … Continue reading Web scraping is legal (for UK/EU academic researchers) →

Studying online trends in GIS

New paper: Patterns of Consumption and Connectedness in GIS Web Sources Ballatore A., Scheider S., Lemmens R. (2018) Patterns of Consumption and Connectedness in GIS Web Sources. In: Mansourian A., Pilesjö P., Harrie L., van Lammeren R. (eds) Geospatial Technologies for All. AGILE 2018. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Cham [PDF] Abstract: Every day, … Continue reading Studying online trends in GIS →