[HOT] Open Data and OSM

john whelan jwhelan0112 at gmail.com
Thu Jul 6 18:05:00 UTC 2017


Not quite what I'm after.  The City of Ottawa amended its Open Data license
to be in line with the Canadian Treasury Board license and both licenses
have been reviewed by the OSM legal working group and deemed acceptable.  I
think there is a UK Open Data license which is also acceptable.  So we have
accepted some municipal data in the past.

Many Open Data licenses are not acceptable.  Whilst I accept only the legal
working group can deem what is acceptable what I'm seeing in Africa
specifically in Ghana at the moment are people who working in teams have
collected data for other uses wanting to add this to OSM.

So what are the hoops they have to go through?

I've also come across people who say that this data was given to them so
obviously it should meet the license requirements.

What I'm after is somewhere that clarifies to them the steps to take.  Who
is an acceptable / authoritative person to say this data was given?   etc.

Thanks John

On 6 July 2017 at 13:54, Donal Hunt <donal.hunt at gmail.com> wrote:

> Here are a couple of links:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/License/Use_Cases
> http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Contributor_Terms
> https://opendatacommons.org/
>
> Donal
>
> On 6 Jul 2017 17:07, "john whelan" <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm seeing some interest in different levels of government in Africa and
>> others in enriching OSM with their data.
>>
>> Is there somewhere that discusses things like Open Data licenses etc.
>>
>> Thanks John
>>
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