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<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Mar 16, 2020, 18:21 by lanxanae@gmail.com:<br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 115%;" class=""><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="EN-US">Hi, sorry
by the delay,</span></span></span><br></p><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 115%;" class=""><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="EN-US">About the 3rd
point (…the reused information is not altered or the meaning is distorted…), what
do we understand by alter the data? Change the name of a stret from capital letter
to a small letter? Complete an abbreviation? Adjust the location of a point,
from the middle of a junction to the building where it’s located? Or change a
pharmacy to a supermarket?</span></span></span><br></p></div></blockquote><div>It does not matter. ODBL license allows to make any changes to data.<br></div><div><br></div><div>For example moving pharmacy because it changed location. Or taking OSM data<br></div><div>and moving it around and using it in the game.<br></div><div><br></div><div>ODBL license allows both. License of this dataset not. <br></div><div>Data with "reused information is not altered" is ineligible for import into OSM.<br></div><div>Importing data on incompatible licenses is a copyright violation.<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; line-height: 115%;" class=""><span class="font" style="font-family:Calibri, sans-serif"><span class="size" style="font-size:11pt"><span lang="EN-US">Finally, as
the colleague comments, from the open data portal itself they have
congratulated us for reusing their data: </span><a style="color:blue" href="https://twitter.com/opendatacat/status/1239094637488410625" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/opendatacat/status/1239094637488410625</a></span></span><br></p></div></blockquote><div>Can you try getting waiver to make their data ODBL compatible? As it stands,<br></div><div>"alteration of data is not allowed" and "meaning is not distorted" makes necessary<br></div><div>to remove it.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Note: while distorting data in OSM is not allowed ("change a pharmacy to a supermarket")<br></div><div>you can take OSM data and use it in your own project where it will be distorted<br></div><div>as you like.<br></div><div><br></div><div>For example in making map of a fictional city or something<br></div><div>(this is not theoretical - see Minecraft Earth <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Minecraft">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Minecraft</a> ).<br></div> </body>
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