<div dir="ltr">Good day Arun,<div><br></div><div>The first item in the Wiki anwsers this:</div><div><a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Trees#Licence">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Trees#Licence</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The data is licensed under the Open Data License Version 2.0 (Ottawa ODL 2.0) which has been approved by the DWG:</div><div><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KyTLbQWSmo1rdoppqlFGTB3by-qVAzjLo_LPml3Ri9Y/edit">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KyTLbQWSmo1rdoppqlFGTB3by-qVAzjLo_LPml3Ri9Y/edit</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>The original data is under the City of Ottawa open Data portal:</div><div><a href="http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/tree-inventory-street-trees/resource/ca318149-ba23-44dd-9355-a1ee62fe157a">http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/tree-inventory-street-trees/resource/ca318149-ba23-44dd-9355-a1ee62fe157a</a></div><div><br></div><div>Does this answer your questions Arun?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><div><i>~~~~~~</i></div><div><i><b>Denis Carriere</b></i></div><div><div><i>GIS Software & Systems Specialist</i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Arun Ganesh <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:arun.planemad@gmail.com" target="_blank">arun.planemad@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Answering a few questions should help:<div>- Who funded the data collection?</div><div>- Who organised/coordinated the data collection?</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>Arun</div></font></span><div><div class="h5"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 11:35 PM, john whelan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" target="_blank">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">So what are the hoops they have to go through?<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I've also come across people who say that this data was given to them so obviously it should meet the license requirements.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">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.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks John<br></div></div><div class="m_6554290708251789643m_-482654990297122992HOEnZb"><div class="m_6554290708251789643m_-482654990297122992h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 6 July 2017 at 13:54, Donal Hunt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:donal.hunt@gmail.com" target="_blank">donal.hunt@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Here are a couple of links:<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/License/Use_Cases" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/<wbr>wiki/License/Use_Cases</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Contributor_Terms" target="_blank">http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/<wbr>wiki/Licence/Contributor_Terms</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><a href="https://opendatacommons.org/" target="_blank">https://opendatacommons.org/</a><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Donal</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_6554290708251789643m_-482654990297122992m_1908170857149518257h5">On 6 Jul 2017 17:07, "john whelan" <<a href="mailto:jwhelan0112@gmail.com" target="_blank">jwhelan0112@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_6554290708251789643m_-482654990297122992m_1908170857149518257h5"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm seeing some interest in different levels of government in Africa and others in enriching OSM with their data.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Is there somewhere that discusses things like Open Data licenses etc.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Thanks John<br></div></div>
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