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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The city TOU has non-open terms. The TOU is not even compatible with another city using the same TOU. One example is “The City reserves the right to assume, at its own expense, the exclusive defence and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you. You agree not to settle any matter without the written consent of the City.” What this means is that if you had data under the same license from Burnaby, with Vancouver changed to Burnaby in the text of the license, you could not merge the data because you would have to be able to grand exclusive defense to two parties.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";color:windowtext'> Bryce Nesbitt [mailto:bryce2@obviously.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 12, 2011 8:55 PM<br><b>To:</b> imports@openstreetmap.org<br><b>Subject:</b> [Imports] Vancouver Open Data Catalogue - OK to Import?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I'm looking to import to OSM some data from:<br><a href="http://data.vancouver.ca/">http://data.vancouver.ca/</a><br><br><br>The <a href="http://data.vancouver.ca/termsOfUse.htm">terms</a> seem good:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><i>The City of Vancouver (City) now grants you a world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive licence to use, modify, and distribute the datasets in all current and future media and formats for any lawful purpose. You now acknowledge that this licence does not give you a copyright or other proprietary interest in the datasets.</i><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Are they good enough to import into OSM?<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>