<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Actually, I just realized that the data that is distributed by GADM.org for Nepal contains VDC boundaries (as admin level 4), and is licensed with the following note (its in the readme.pdf if you download the data; a copy is <a href="https://github.com/prabhasp/NepalMaps/raw/gh-pages/baselayers/NPL_adm/read_me.pdf">here</a>):</div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><span style="font-size:11pt"><font face="Calibri,Bold">"Sources Used": </font></span><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:11pt">FortiusOne Inc. (via WorldBank; <a href="http://maps.worldbank.org/overlays/3238">http://maps.worldbank.org/overlays/3238</a>)
(Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.)</span><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><p><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Is this license permissive enough to be used in OSM? Since only attribution is required, can we do the attribution via an OSM comment, or perhaps even by creating a specific account that is used just to upload this information....?</font></p>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 10:39 PM, Prabhas Pokharel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:prabhas.pokharel@gmail.com" target="_blank">prabhas.pokharel@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"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">(OSM-Nepal list.. see the conversation below about putting VDCs of Nepal into OSM).</div>
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<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I'll try to see if I can find contacts at UN/OCHA who may have access to the digital files here.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">
In the meantime, if anybody wants, most of the files seem to have been uploaded by <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sadalmelik" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sadalmelik</a>; maybe we can contact him / her?</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 11:50 AM, amrit karmacharya <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:amrit.im@gmail.com" target="_blank">amrit.im@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">IT says <span style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(247,248,255);font-family:sans-serif">This work is excerpted from an official document of the United Nations. The policy of this organisation is to keep most of its documents in the </span><b style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(247,248,255);font-family:sans-serif"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/public_domain" title="w:public domain" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(102,51,102);background-image:none" target="_blank">public domain</a></b><span style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(247,248,255);font-family:sans-serif"> in order to disseminate "as widely as possible the ideas (contained) in the United Nations Publications".</span><div>
<span style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(247,248,255);font-family:sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:19.1875px;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(247,248,255);font-family:sans-serif">SO maybe we can contact UN for digital format. In its current state i.e. png format, it is not much helpful. I tried using it as background in JOSM but i could not idenify the boundaries.</span></div>
</div><div><div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 9:28 AM, Nama Budhathoki <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:namabudhathoki@gmail.com" target="_blank">namabudhathoki@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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We will explore this. Thanks for the link. <br>
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Nama<br></div><div style="font-family:'trebuchet ms',sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 12:41 AM, Prabhas Pokharel <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:prabhas.pokharel@gmail.com" target="_blank">prabhas.pokharel@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Can we use these? <a href="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:District_VDC_maps_of_Nepal" target="_blank">http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:District_VDC_maps_of_Nepal</a></font><br clear="all">
</div><div><span style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Might be worth seeing if one of these (maybe walking papers style) can be converted to actual boundaries, and going from there....</span><br></div>
<div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Just noticed that google maps already has village markers for each VDC and Municipality; I think they take centerpoints (or maybe the whole area, I'm not sure).</font></div>
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