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Hello,<br><br>confused by all the stuff that is written about the use of the ODbl License, I have to ask for your opinion. <br><br>I'm working on a research paper regarding semantic OSM Information for the use in urban structure analyses. We want to extract usage information from OSM (POI/ polygon e.g. amenity=bar and building=house) to specify if a building is only used for living or is mixed with shops etc. <br>Therefore we have to compare and intersect proprietary data (german geobasis data: atkis, alk) with the OSM points and polygons. The easiest way, to store both datasets is in a database. Finally, to present the analysis results about the usage of buildings for living or others, we maybe want to present them in a web based application. It is not possible to publish the proprietary geobasis data under the ODbl license.<br><br>The question is, if the OSM data under ODbl allows this kind of analysis, where osm data and proprietary data are mixed. <br>I hope I have explained it well and you got an idea of the project. And I hope you can help me with the question of licensing the data in this project.<br><br>Thanks a lot and greetings from Dresden, Germany<br>Carola K.<br><br> </div></body>
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