[HOT] Open Data and OSM

[Denis Carriere]

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*Denis Carriere*
*GIS Software & Systems Specialist*

On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Denis Carriere <carriere.denis at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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?
>
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> *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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