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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 14-11-29 10:37 AM, Piper, Stephanie
wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">I work for the Region of York and we want
to add our data to Open Street Map. All data that we are
adding is available under our Open Data portal and is licensed
through our Open Data license and is available for unlimited
use and reuse. I work in the Geographic Information Services
Branch at the Region and this data is highly authoritative and
we feel as though it adds value to the current Open Street Map
base.<br>
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Hi Stephanie, thanks for your note. It's always good to see
municipalities opening up their data, and better still to see what
citizens can do with it. There are a couple of potential issues that
are likely to hinder the integration of the Region of York's data
into OSM:<br>
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<li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;"><a
href="http://www.york.ca/wps/portal/yorkhome/yorkregion/yr/statisticsanddata/opendata/%21ut/p/a1/jY_NCsIwEISfpQ8g2Yb-5BoimqSWejPmIovVGtCk2ODBp7cWr1r3tAvf7MwQSwyxHh-uw-iCx-v7tsVB8bWSsgLdZEwAh4ZrWjJgVTkC-xGAL8NhTq__MKD3WtQdsT3Gy8L5cyBmiGPCIbrjgL5tMSIxoT_5adsROz2lNCtkKkCDbBioVbnNl0ymIPIZoKIf4Eet_maeGwlO8SR5AYDq2Kw%21/dl5/d5/L2dBISEvZ0FBIS9nQSEh/"
title="York Region's Open Data Licence">York Region’s Open
Data Licence</a> is its own <em>very slightly different</em>
variant of the UK Government’s Open Government Licence for
Public Sector Information. It’s not quite exactly like any
other licence on <a href="http://clipol.org/" title="CLIPol">CLIPol</a>,
and the main sticking point is the requirement to revoke
attribution should the Region deem it necessary. OSM is
volunteer run, and we don’t have the resources to have legal
experts review all these different licences. It’s often just
easier for the project not to use the data in cases like
these.<br>
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<li style="margin: 0.5em 0px;">While the Region’s data might be
of exceptional quality, OSM has a policy of not importing data
over where data already exists. Integrating imports without
overwriting volunteer mappers’ contributions is extremely time
consuming. OSM’s spatial accuracy may not be as good as a city
professional survey, but the project typically has new
features mapped by volunteers well ahead of any local
government maps.</li>
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I know the list's welcome may appear a little qualified, but thanks
for joining us!<br>
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Best Wishes,<br>
Stewart<br>
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