My thoughts exactly. The people paid for the streets, why shouldn't they be able to know where they are exactly ? I will try to find the source of the data... probably it's agiv, maybe I can try to mail them. Has anybody got any experience with their opinion on free geodata ?<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/2/8 sintsixtus <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sintsixtus@gmail.com">sintsixtus@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Ben Laenen schreef:<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">> On Saturday 07 February 2009, Renaud MICHEL wrote:<br>
><br>
>> Hello Mathias<br>
>><br>
>> Le samedi 07 février 2009 à 09:43, Mathias Versichele a écrit :<br>
>><br>
>>> one thing that has currently been bugging me is the lack of<br>
>>> municipality borders in Belgium. I have a shapefile with all the<br>
>>> municipality borders of the flemish region, but I don't know the<br>
>>> source. I got it from a source at the university a few years ago<br>
>>> for a small GIS project, but the file was never associated with any<br>
>>> metadata indicating the source... It's kind of annoying to have the<br>
>>> file there, but not be able to use it, or should I just take the<br>
>>> risk ?<br>
>>><br>
>> I would say you should not risk having someone coming some time<br>
>> later, when the data has been integrated and enhanced, and force you<br>
>> to remove all because they don't want their intellectual property<br>
>> being used.<br>
>><br>
>> So if you don't know where the data come from you should not used it.<br>
>><br>
>> Maybe you could get in touch with the people who provided the data<br>
>> and ask them where it comes from.<br>
>><br>
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><br>
> Indeed, don't use it unless you know the source.<br>
><br>
><br>
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</div>If the source is "the taxpayer", you are "OBLIGED" to use it. I mean,<br>
if the source is the Flemish Governement, you should reason that if you<br>
may not use it, you can run naked on the streat and fetch your pension.<br>
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Look here:<br>
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/mar/09/education.epublic" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/mar/09/education.epublic</a><br>
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<br>
Article I found reading here somewhere:<br>
<a href="http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/openstreemaps_free_softwares_answer_google_and_commercially_restricted_geo_data" target="_blank">http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/openstreemaps_free_softwares_answer_google_and_commercially_restricted_geo_data</a><br>
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<a href="http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/large_hadron_collider_switches_if_its_end_world_it_will_be_powered_gnu_linux" target="_blank">http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/large_hadron_collider_switches_if_its_end_world_it_will_be_powered_gnu_linux</a><br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Mathias Versichele<br>Oudburgstraat 16<br>9240 Zele<br>0485/16.07.08<br>