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Good work! :)<br>
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- Svavar Kjarrval<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 21/02/13 03:31, Ian Dees wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hi imports,
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<div style="">Earlier last year I downloaded the Chicago
building footprints shapefile [0] from the Chicago data
portal, chopped it into manageable bits and started importing
it into OSM. Halfway through the process of merging and
uploading this data I read the data portal's license [1]
closer, discovering a clause that makes the datasets offered
there incompatible with OSM. The troublesome clause allows the
City of Chicago to require removal of any City data at any
point in the future:</div>
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<div style="">"The City may require a user of this data to
terminate any and all display, distribution or other use of
any or all of the data provided at this website for any reason
including, without limitation, violation of these Terms of Use
or other terms as defined by City agencies or departments
contributing data to this website."</div>
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<div style="">When I noticed this I immediately stopped
uploading data and began a conversation with the city's data
team to discuss ways OSM could move forward with using the
datasets listed on the portal.</div>
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<div style="">After several months of phone calls, meetings, and
waiting, I'm pleased to announce that the City of Chicago has
started to release some of its datasets under the MIT license
on GitHub: [2].</div>
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<div style="">As a result of this new license, I will be able to
continue importing the excellent buildings and address data
into OSM (more on that later) and businesses will be able to
use this data in their apps and tools without worrying about
an untested license.</div>
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<div style="">I'm pretty excited about this, as Chicago is seen
as a leader in municipal data and other OSM/Open Data folks
can point to this as proof that open licensing is a very
important part of open data.</div>
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<div style="">-Ian</div>
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<div style="">[0] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://data.cityofchicago.org/Buildings/Building-Footprints/w2v3-isjw">https://data.cityofchicago.org/Buildings/Building-Footprints/w2v3-isjw</a></div>
<div style="">[1] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/narr/foia/data_disclaimer.html">http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/narr/foia/data_disclaimer.html</a></div>
<div style="">[2] <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/chicago/">https://github.com/chicago/</a></div>
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