<div dir="ltr">For reference, here's the full email and response I got, in case it helps others with similar requests:<div><br></div><div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote">Hi,<br><span style="font-size:12.8px">I tried sending this through the feedback form on the Open </span><span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il" style="font-size:12.8px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Data</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> site, but it was too long for the form and my shorter inquiry was never responded to. Given the upcoming HackOurCity and InnovationWeek, I'm hoping that this can be passed along to the appropriate people.</span><br style="font-size:12.8px">Dear <span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">New</span> <span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">West</span> Open <span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">Data</span>,<br>Thank you for making open <span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">data</span> available to the public.<br>I am a resident of <span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">New</span> <span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">Westminster</span>, but also a contributor to the OpenStreetMap project [1], a collaborative open project to create a global geodata set freely usable by anyone [2].<br>We respect the IP rights of others and I write to ask if we can use your <span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">data</span>. OpenStreetMap (OSM) uses the ODbL license [3]. The OGL-City of <span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">New</span> <span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">Westminster</span> is based upon the OGL-BC, which in turn is based upon the OGL-CA. As I understand, the OGL-CA has been deemed compatible with the ODbL, but the OGL-BC has slightly modified wording introducing an exemption for the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (B.C.). Given the goals of most municipal Open <span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">Data</span> projects, I imagine you would happy for the <span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">data</span> to be used by OSM, but we would ask for a statement clearing the use.<br>At the most simple, I would seek a statement like this:<br>"<span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">Data</span> available in the Orthophotography, Landuse, Address, Building Footprints, and Park Benches datasets location of the City of <span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">New</span> <span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">Westminster</span>'s Open <span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">Data</span> site under the following location: <a href="http://opendata.newwestcity.ca/datasets" target="_blank">http://opendata.<wbr>newwestcity.ca/datasets</a> is released in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act of British Columbia."<br>Such a statement was provided by the City of Vancouver for their own datasets for inclusion in OSM.<br>An alternative statement that would work in a more general sense is the following:<br>"The City of <span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">New</span> <span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">Westminster</span> has no objections to geodata derived in part from the Orthophotography, Landuse, Address, Building Footprints, and Park Benches datasets being incorporated into the OpenStreetMap project geodata database and released under a free and open license".<br>Alternatively, releasing the datasets under a Public Domain, CC0, PDDL, or ODbL license would satisfy our license requirements.<br>I also ask that whatever statement you are prepared to make can be made public for information purposes.<br>Below is a fact sheet. If you would like any more information, I will do my best to help or can ask our project's License Working Group to get in touch with you. I've also included a couple links to discussion on license compatibility in Nanaimo and Vancouver.<br>Regards, Alan Richards (alarobric)<br>Fact Sheet<br>[1] The OpenStreetMap project currently has over 750,000 registered contributors worldwide. Our main website is <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/" target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.<wbr>org<br></a>[2] We are mandated to make our geodata available in perpetuity under a free and open licence. We are not allowed to use a commercial license, but commercial organisations are allowed to use our <span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">data</span> under similar terms.<br>[3] Our <span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">data</span> is currently published under the Open Database License 1.0, <a href="http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/" target="_blank">http://www.<wbr>opendatacommons.org/licenses/<wbr>odbl/<br></a>[4] Most of our geodata is contributed by individuals. However, we are very grateful when able to incorporate or derive from other geo-<span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">data</span> datasets where license terms are compatible.<br>[5] We formally attribute all such sources at <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.<wbr>org/wiki/Attribution</a>, using any specific wording if you request. We also try to provide a link to this page with any extract of <span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">data</span> from our database. However, for reasons of practicality, we do not require end-users to repeat such attribution since it runs into hundreds.<br>[6] We also keep a public track of third party <span class="gmail-m_-989306489667844250gmail-il">data</span> use at <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.<wbr>org/wiki/Import/Catalogue</a> and usually have a project page for each dataset, describing how we use it and whether there are any license restrictions to be aware of.<br>[7] If you have any specific legal questions, the OpenStreetMap Foundation's License Working Group can be reached at <a href="mailto:legal@osmfoundation.org" target="_blank">legal@osmfoundation.org</a> and will be glad to help.<br>[8] Nanaimo licensing discussion: <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2013-December/005974.html" target="_blank">https://lists.<wbr>openstreetmap.org/pipermail/<wbr>talk-ca/2013-December/005974.<wbr>html<br></a>[9] Vancouver discussion: <a href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2014-February/006037.html" target="_blank">https://lists.<wbr>openstreetmap.org/pipermail/<wbr>talk-ca/2014-February/006037.<wbr>html</a></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"> <span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">Dear Mr. Richards,<br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Thank you for your very clear email. We really want to facilitate your and other open <span class="gmail-il">data</span> users work. We have therefore added a statement above our license that all <span class="gmail-il">data</span> sets in the City’s open <span class="gmail-il">data</span> collection are released in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act of BC. A link to the page is below.<br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="http://opendata.newwestcity.ca/licence" target="_blank">http://opendata.newwestcity.<wbr>ca/licence<br></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Please let me know if you have further concerns or requests for <span class="gmail-il">data</span> sets.<br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Yours,<br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <br></span><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Jacque Killawee</span></b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> | Records and Information Administrator<br></span><b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">T</span></b><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <a href="tel:(604)%20515-3764" value="+16045153764" target="_blank">604.515.3764</a> | <b>E</b> <a href="mailto:jkillawee@newwestcity.ca" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">jkillawee@newwestcity.ca<br></span></a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> <br></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><img border="0" width="10" height="11" id="gmail-m_1673133557121877641Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D28D12.1DF8FB70" alt="cid:image001.png@01CB03C9.D6E8C540" class="gmail-CToWUd"> </span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">City of <span class="gmail-il">New</span> <span class="gmail-il">Westminster</span> | Legislative Services<br></span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">511 Royal Avenue, <span class="gmail-il">New</span> <span class="gmail-il">Westminster</span>, BC V3L 1H9<br></span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><a href="http://www.newwestcity.ca/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue">www.newwestcity.ca<br></span></a></span><span style="font-size:9pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></blockquote></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 7, 2017 at 11:14 AM, Alan Richards <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alarobric@gmail.com" target="_blank">alarobric@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">From what I've seen so far, the opinion seems to be that the OGL-BC devived licenses like this one require a statement about the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act. This was done for the City of Vancouver license, and I've just recently recieved an update from the City of New Westminster along the same lines. They were very happy to adjust it after I contacted them though.<div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">"<span class="m_-6492522867445428450gmail-m_-5614494639667227376gmail-il">Data</span> available in the blah blah blah datasets location of the City of <span class="m_-6492522867445428450gmail-m_-5614494639667227376gmail-il">New</span> <span class="m_-6492522867445428450gmail-m_-5614494639667227376gmail-il">Westminster</span>'s Open <span class="m_-6492522867445428450gmail-m_-5614494639667227376gmail-il">Data</span> site under the following location: <a href="http://opendata.newwestcity.ca/datasets" target="_blank">http://opendata.neww<wbr>estcity.ca/datasets</a> is released in accordance with the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act of British Columbia."<br></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 5, 2017 at 8:16 PM, Stewart C. Russell <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scruss@gmail.com" target="_blank">scruss@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span>On 2017-03-05 09:44 PM, Brent Fraser wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> I've had a request to improve the stream and trail data around Gibsons<br>
> BC using data from the Sunshine Coast Regional District (SCRD<br>
> <a href="http://www.scrd.ca/data-download" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.scrd.ca/data-downlo<wbr>ad</a>). Their license<br>
> (<a href="http://www.scrd.ca/scrd_disclaimer" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.scrd.ca/scrd_discl<wbr>aimer</a>) permits this<br>
<br>
</span>In addition to James's link, you'd need to have the SCRD licence<br>
approved by the Licensing Working Group. Takes a couple of months. I see<br>
a glaring error in the text: they copypasta'd North Van's licence, but<br>
didn't find and replace properly, leaving the attribution as “Contains<br>
information licensed under the Open Government Licence - North Vancouver.”<br>
<span class="m_-6492522867445428450HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Stewart<br>
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