[OHM] The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries

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The data are CC-BY-NC-SA.

It's not something we have talked about in any detail, but in general I
would assume we want to work OHM on license terms similar or equivalent to
OSM (i.e., ODbL, which allow commercial usage). The academic world tends to
release things CC-BY-NC-SA, but recent German case law interprets that as
'for private use only', e.g., publication in a journal published by a
for-profit company, even if the author receives no payment, would (quite
rightly IMO) be deemed commercial.

This does raise a problem because many in the digital humanities are fine
with CC-BY-NC-SA, there is no consensus to accept eliminating the
non-commercial restriction. It also means that certain fine digital
humanities data collections are not directly usable in OHM.

This is an issue which we need to discuss.

Regards,

Jerry

PS. I have looked at time to time at historical boundaries in England &
Wales: even quite recent boundary changes would be useful, just to
interpret some current Open Data releases.

On 25 March 2015 at 17:39, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com <
todd.d.robbins at gmail.com> wrote:

> Anyone want to work with me to get these boundary changes into OHM?
>
> http://publications.newberry.org/ahcbp/
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