[HOT] Open Data and OSM

[Denis Carriere]

Good day Arun,

The first item in the Wiki anwsers this:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Trees#Licence

The data is licensed under the Open Data License Version 2.0 (Ottawa ODL
2.0) which has been approved by the DWG:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KyTLbQWSmo1rdoppqlFGTB3by-qVAzjLo_LPml3Ri9Y/edit

The original data is under the City of Ottawa open Data portal:
http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/tree-inventory-street-trees/resource/ca318149-ba23-44dd-9355-a1ee62fe157a

Does this answer your questions Arun?

*~~~~~~*
*Denis Carriere*
*GIS Software & Systems Specialist*

On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Arun Ganesh <arun.planemad at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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