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Hello,<br>
<br>
I would like to get your oppinion regarding the ODbL for the use
case described below. I have asked several attendants at SOT-M in
Vienna and was encouraged to put my question on this email list.<br>
<br>
The background is as follows: For marketing purposes, like finding a
site for a new facility, companies can buy statistical data that is
related to road objects of either Navteq or Teleatlas. The data can
be presented on a map with different colours or other styles for the
roads. The question is, whether the ODbL allows such companies to
use OSM rather than Navteq or Teleatlas, if they transfer the
statistical data via a matching table to the OSM road objects.<br>
<br>
Here is the use case<span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US"> " Transfer of data from other road networks":</span>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">One <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>can
license data associated with proprietary road networks. An
example would be a table (T0) with Navteq identifiers as keys,
numbers of households, dominant type of buildings, buying power,
traffic frequencies.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Given
another table that maps Navteq identifiers to matching OSM
identifiers one could translate the licensed data to OSM. On a
thematic OSM map one could use different styles (colour,
breadth, …) for the roads in order to visualize the transferred
data.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt
320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt
687.0pt 732.8pt"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
New";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">T0 may look like this:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:
normal;tab-stops:45.8pt 91.6pt 137.4pt 183.2pt 229.0pt 274.8pt
320.6pt 366.4pt 412.2pt 458.0pt 503.8pt 549.6pt 595.4pt 641.2pt
687.0pt 732.8pt"><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier
New";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New
Roman";mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:DE"
lang="EN-US">Navteq-ID | Number of households | Buying power |
...</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">There are two ways to generate the map. Either
create a data table (T1) with OSM road identifiers and the
transferred data.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Or
create a mapping table (T2) with OSM road identifiers and the
matching Navteq identifiers. For the OSM road objects to be
displayed in the map, dynamically merge data from (T2) and (T0)
for the objects currently on the map.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span></span></p>
<pre><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">T1 may look like this:</span></pre>
<pre><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">OSM-ID | Associated Navteq-ID | Number of households | Buying power | ...
</span></pre>
<pre><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US" lang="EN-US">T2 may look like this:</span></pre>
<pre>OSM-ID | Associated Navteq-ID</pre>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ansi-language:EN-US"
lang="EN-US">According to the ODbL, the OSM map - or an
application with this map - would be a produced work. Either the
OSM data table (T1) or the mapping table (T2) would be a
derivative database and would have to be provided under ODbL. In
either case, the licensed data table (T0) would not fall under
the ODbL, either because it is not used for the map or because
it is an independent part in a collective database, which it
forms together with (T2).</span></p>
Thank you very much in advance for your comments. They are important
because at Fraunhofer, we would like to use OSM data in applied
research projects.<br>
<br>
angi voss
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Dr. Angi Voss
Fraunhofer IAIS
Knowledge Discovery
Schloss Birlinghoven
D-53754 Sankt Augustin
phone: 02241 / 142726
Fax: 02241 / 42726
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de">http://www.iais.fraunhofer.de</a>
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