[Imports] Geo data from De Lijn

[Nic Roets]

2010/9/16 Sander Deryckere <sanderd17 at gmail.com>:
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> Sindce I don't seem to get a reply, I'll ask my question again:
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> Op 30 augustus 2010 20:24 schreef Sander Deryckere <sanderd17 at gmail.com> het
> volgende:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> De Lijn, the Flemish public bus transport organization wants to donate
>> their data to OSM. But before they decide to do so, they want some
>> guarantees. They ask how fast the map will be actualized. Is it good they do
>> one big upload and keep the actualization of the map to volunteers? In that
>> case, are there statistics I can show to convince them the map will be
>> actual?

With "actualization", do you mean "dissemination / distribution" ? In
which case the answer will be anything between a few minutes for the
tiles, up to a month for data in some less used downstream format.

Or do you mean maintained ? In which case you will know better than
us, because you live there.

>> As a second thing, they ask who would be responsible for incorrect data. I
>> believe that the OSM licenses (both CC-BY-SA and ODBL) have some text that
>> says they give no warranty for correctness, am I correct on this? Or who
>> gives warranty for correctness?

The license only covers the OSM community w.r.t. to downstream users.
I highly doubt that De Lijn will make downstream use of our data, so
the license will not really be important here.

You, personally, can make an agreement with them that you will update
the data. But there is always a chance that a user may destroy or
corrupt the data beyond your control. So the agreement will need some
escape clauses.

Or you can provide them with a service where you deliver to them a
Flaanders extract (snapshot) that meets their requirements. Then you
can do some offline quality control and editing and they can e.g.
render maps from that.