[Imports] Attribution of CORINE and Urban Atlas imports

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Wed Apr 6 20:27:54 UTC 2011


Hi,

    at a conference today I met someone who works for EEA in Copenhagen 
and we had a chat about EEA data in OSM. A very friendly chat, I must 
add, he wasn't actually complaining about anything, but he did mention a 
few oddities he found when studying how OSM was using CORINE (and Urban 
Atlas) data.

I'm listing them here in the hope that maybe some of them can be 
rectified, or avoided in future CORINE imports (hello Dermot!)

a) Corine Land Cover

Generally, you can obtain CORINE data from national bodies or from the 
EEA directly. The data sets may be minimally different, and may be 
licensed differently.

The French import states as their source: "Union européenne - SOeS, 
CORINE Land Cover, 2006.", where SoeS stands for "le service de 
l'Observation et des Statistiques (SOeS) du Commissariat général au 
développement durable (CGDD)". This is a French national organisation.

The Romanian import took their data directly from the EEA (as documented 
on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CLC_RO_Permission), but in their 
source tags they credit SOeS like the French did which is not correct. 
It would be great if this could be fixed, or at least rectified on the 
wiki page.

There's also a Spanish, Estonian, and Hungarian CORINE import of which I 
haven't fully investigated the tags. For Hungary, 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalog mentions both the 
national office and the EEA as their source which is porbably not 
correct either.

b) Urban Atlas

There's a lot of Urban Atlas-sourced material in OSM was well, most of 
it in Poland or Slovakia. Some of it is tagged only with "source=urban 
atlas" but there's no mention of the EEA. Much like ourselves, the EEA 
would prefer to be credited properly if their data is used.

As I said, it's not that EEA are complaining (and they don't have any 
set-in-stone attribution rules anyway, only that you have to attribute) 
but we should certainly aim to do it right!

Bye
Frederik

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