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To: legal-talk and import<br>
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Hi.<br>
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The National Land Survey of Iceland released a lot of data recently
under an adaptation of the Open Government Licence. There is a lot
of data under this licence and it will require many separate
imports. For example, the NLSI's coastline for Iceland has 260.280
nodes while there are, currently, 81.063 coastline nodes for Iceland
in OSM. There are many other datasets like this we can import under
this licence. The data is, I think, very valuable to us and very
detailed.<br>
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English version of the licence:
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href="http://www.lmi.is/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/License-for-use-of-free-NLSI-data-General-Terms.pdf">http://www.lmi.is/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/License-for-use-of-free-NLSI-data-General-Terms.pdf</a><br>
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I already asked on the #osm IRC channel and the main questions were
regarding the attribution and the appendix.<br>
* The attribution requirement, if I understand correctly, is
fulfilled if there's a link on the OSM wiki contributors page. This
interpretation is further supported by my e-mail exchange with the
CEO of the NLSI (in Icelandic).<br>
* The appendix is just a notice and serves as a warning that even if
the roads and trails are marked as open to public traffic in the
data, the traffic signs in meatspace take precedence. It does not
require us to forward this notice or do anything else. I think it
absolves them from any responsibility if the data does not conform
with the traffic signs and road markings at any given time.<br>
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Could you check the licence and see if it's OK in your opinion? If
there are no blockers in the licence, we can start preparing imports
and link to this thread to avoid repeats in the licence discussions.<br>
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With regards,<br>
Svavar Kjarrval<br>
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