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</head><body text="#000000">I remember the blood and sweat that went
into getting it approved and somewhere I have all the emails.<br>
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If it is released by the federal government under their open data
license 2.0 then it is OK to use it. <br>
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If you wish to use data direct from a municipality for example Kingston
which I think has address data available under an open license which
aligns with the Ontario Open Government license then that is not OK to
use.<br>
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If Stats has released address data for Kingston under the federal
government license 2.0 then it is OK to use it.<br>
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Really what we need is a documented process to bring in a city for a
mapper who hasn't done the address type import before.<br>
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Cheerio John<br>
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<span>James wrote on 5/23/2021 3:13 PM:</span><br>
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<div dir="auto">the legal approval happened sometime during 2017 and
was discussed with LWG, I really don't have the time right now to scroll
through mail archives.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun.,
May 23, 2021, 2:51 p.m. Jarek Piórkowski, <<a
href="mailto:jarek@piorkowski.ca" moz-do-not-send="true">jarek@piorkowski.ca</a>>
wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0
.8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The fact that even the
"main" OGL Canada license is listed as<br>
"compatible (reference missing)" on that OSM Foundation wiki page<br>
really doesn't inspire confidence...<br>
<br>
--Jarek<br>
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On Sun, 23 May 2021 at 14:38, Justin Tracey <<a
href="mailto:j3tracey@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"
moz-do-not-send="true">j3tracey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> The individual licenses for each municipality have to be approved<br>
> individually (they do sometimes make changes incompatible with the<br>
> ODbL), but this dataset is re-licensed under OGL Canada, which has
been<br>
> approved:<br>
><br>
> <a
href="https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/OGL_Canada_and_local_variants"
rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/OGL_Canada_and_local_variants</a><br>
><br>
> - Justin<br>
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