[OHM] The Atlas of Historical County Boundaries

[todd.d.robbins at gmail.com]

Eric,

That's great to know! On a related note: we need to update this
documentation ASAP: http://www.openhistoricalmap.org/copyright

Is this something I could patch? Or do we want to draft it collaboratively?




On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:12 PM, todd.d.robbins at gmail.com <
todd.d.robbins at gmail.com> wrote:

> Very important points Jerry. Thank you! I guess I'll start tracing these
> by hand in JOSM/geojson.io then. ;-)
>
> A more direct route could be to discuss a change in licensing directly
> with The Newberry. Sounds like the idea is off the table for now though.
>
>
> –Tod
>
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 1:08 PM, SK53 <sk53.osm at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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