[OSM-talk] good news: shapefile usage of ramsar sites for openstreetmap.org

Roman Neumüller r.neumuller at gmail.com
Tue Sep 22 09:50:12 BST 2009


Good news: we can use the shapefiles of wetland.org (1)!
:D

Roman

(1)
http://ramsar.wetlands.org/GISMaps/DownloadGISdatasets/tabid/769/language/en-US/Default.aspx

------- Forwarded message -------
From: "PECK Dwight" <peck at ramsar.org>
To: "Roman Neumüller" <email at katpatuka.org>
Cc: "Stephan.Flink at wetlands.org" <Stephan.Flink at wetlands.org>
Subject: RE: RE: shapefile usage of ramsar sites for openstreetmap.org
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:27:06 +0300

Greetings, many thanks for your message. As far as we are concerned, we
consider all of the Ramsar site data and products, including those that
Wetlands International prepares for us, to be in the public domain. We
only ask that the use of any data should be dated so that users can judge
the currency and accuracy.

Best regards, Dwight Peck.

**********
Dwight Peck
Communications Officer
Ramsar Convention on Wetlands
Gland, Switzerland
peck at ramsar.org, www.ramsar.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Roman Neumüller [mailto:email at katpatuka.org]
Sent: 22 September 2009 10:15
To: Ramsar Mailbox
Subject: Fwd: RE: shapefile usage of ramsar sites for openstreetmap.org

Hello,

I contacted Stephan Flink from wetlands.org to ask if openstreetmap.org
could make use of their shapefiles of Ramsar sites under Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. He adviced me to ask the Ramsar
Secretariat to confirm that there are no restriction to use this data (see
correspondence below).

Please let me know if there are any legal restrictions in using the data.

Greetings
Roman Neumüller

------- Forwarded message -------
From: "Flink, Stephan" <Stephan.Flink at wetlands.org>
To: "Roman Neumüller" <email at katpatuka.org>
Cc:
Subject: RE: shapefile usage for openstreetmap.org
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:52:33 +0300

Dear Roman,

I'm not aware of any legal restrictions to display the shapefiles in OSM
other than the following ToU
(http://ramsar.wetlands.org/Home/tabid/719/ctl/Terms/Default.aspx). As
Wetlands International is the caretaker of all Ramsar Site information and
the ownership of the data lies with the Ramsar Secretariat in Switzerland
(ramsar at ramsar.org<mailto:ramsar at ramsar.org>), I suggest contacting the
Secretariat to ensure that this is indeed the case.

Best wishes,

Stephan Flink

-----Original Message-----
From: Roman Neumüller [mailto:email at katpatuka.org]
Sent: vrijdag 18 september 2009 16:14
To: Flink, Stephan
Subject: RFI: shapefile usage for openstreetmap.org

Hello Stephan,

I see that I can download shapefiles of Ramsar sites from wetlands.org.
Are there any legal restrictions for conversion and usage of these
shapefiles under the wiki map project http://openstreetmap.org (OSM)?

OSM's content is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
2.0 license...

Greetings
Roman Neumüller
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