[HOT] Open Data and OSM

[john whelan]

I'm trying to approach this is a generalised manner.  I'm seeing a number
of older imports that were not the highest quality.

So is there somewhere that documents the steps involved?

What triggered this one was I was cleaning up in Ghana and noticed about a
hundred streets had been added with no highway tag. I queried someone and
got this reply.

"This was a project we did mapping out streets in Sunyani Municipal

We have alot of such data sitting on hard drives. I wanted to know if there
are ways i could easily upload all the data on roads we have for other
districts in Ghana. I will be glad if you could teach me how to do that so
i can train our town and country planners to be able to do so."

So one issue is just how to tag but there are many other issues as well
here.  Ghana could definitely do with the data.  If we can get the process
and rules set up then we can add the data.  Both NGOs and municipal
governments can make use of OSM and not just in Africa but it needs a
process.  It needs a list to say have you thought about the following. Is
your data licence modelled on <The data is licensed under the Open Data
License Version 2.0 (Ottawa ODL 2.0) which has been approved by the DWG:>
etc.  I'm seeing this sort of thing in Zambia, in Ghana etc. Denis's post
actually covers much of this in documenting what was done for a particular
import.


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.

Cheerio John

On 6 July 2017 at 15:29, 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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