[Imports] Importing Tunisian administrative boundaries from http://www.diva-gis.org/data/adm/TUN_adm.zip

[Sam Vekemans]

Hi,
Just for the context Chedli messaged me on facebook, where i asked him to
email this list.
Having seen maplibrary before, but just not exactly sure what the verdict
was on that site.

(it's listed on the wiki, but i dont think it's that clear)... it just has
that line at the end.

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources#The_Map_Library

Map library looks to be just a cool collection of maps (a library) :) ..
with a mix of stuff. .. different copyrights in there.


... one way around that is to contact the Tunisian Government - data
department directly.  If you can get someone from the government to say
"yes, we looked at OSM, and you can use it to enhance the OSM Map" then it's
certainly OK to use :)


Cheers,
Sam

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Hi Sam,

I'm Chedli Ghedira, a Tunisian OpenStreetMapper.

Currently, maplibrary.org (
http://www.maplibrary.org/stacks/Africa/Tunisia/index.php) is the only
source for Tunisian administrative boundaries.

I'm trying to convert the shp file to an osm file and I found Shp-to-osm.jar
but I could'nt make a rules file because I did'nt understand how to make it.

Can you please help me (and all Tunisian OpenStreetMappers) ?

Sincerly,
Chedli

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On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Emilie Laffray <emilie.laffray at gmail.com>wrote:

> Andre Grueneberg wrote:
> > Chedli Ghedira wrote:
> >
> >> First question : Can these informations be imported into OpenStreetMap ?
> >>
> >
> > My first guess: No.
> > Quote from http://gadm.org:
> > "This dataset is freely available for academic and other non-commercial
> > use. Redistribution, or commercial use, is not allowed without prior
> > permission."
> >
> > I checked some other countries. They also have data, copied from
> > official websites. They are missing the original licence terms and even
> > the required attribution.
> >
> > So taking any data from their site seems to be out of question.
> >
> I had a quick evaluation of the gadm data some time ago, and I agree
> with your analysis in terms of use: it cannot be used for OSM. However,
> it seems that this clause is due to the Australian data being present
> when you look at their sources. Most of the data is coming from the UN,
> some free and libre some just free.
>
> Emilie Laffray
>
>
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