[HOT] Open Data and OSM

[Arun Ganesh]

Answering a few questions should help:
- Who funded the data collection?
- Who organised/coordinated the data collection?

One of them would be the best person to know the current license of the
data and it would be easy to decide if it can be imported.

Its quite possible nobody thought of it and it is unlicensed, in which case
document in as much detail how the data was sourced and a public statement
of an OSM compatible license. If there is nobody to challenge this claim
among the data creators, it should be safe to use the data.

Arun



On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 11:35 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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