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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=FI link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Dear Folks,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I presume that mainly list members are not familiar about National Land Survey of Finland’s open data activities. Very shortly: NLS will open their topographic datasets (from 1:20k to 1:1M) with very open data license agreement.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Read more: <a href="http://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/en/tiedotteet/2012/01/topographic-data-will-be-made-available-all">http://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/en/tiedotteet/2012/01/topographic-data-will-be-made-available-all</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>List of products is here: <a href="http://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/en/node/9262">http://www.maanmittauslaitos.fi/en/node/9262</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>I have several times discussed with NLS people about data license and OSM data license (old and new). It is obvious that we can import NLS data sets to be part of OSM.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>OSM activists in Finland will join to meeting on 6<sup>th</sup> of Feb in Helsinki to discuss about this. More information here: <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Fi:OSM_Finland_Meeting_2012">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Fi:OSM_Finland_Meeting_2012</a> (in Finnish). If somebody need more information in English, please don’t hesitate to send email to me or ask via mailing list.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>There is also very preliminary plan documentation (also in Finnish): <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Fi:Maastotietokanta">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Fi:Maastotietokanta</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Rgs,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US>Pekka<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:FI'>--<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:FI'>Pekka Sarkola<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:FI'>Pekka.Sarkola@poscon.fi<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:FI'>GSM 040 725 2042<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:FI'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>