[Imports] Data license checking

[Clifford Snow]

One city in Washington State offered open data but restricted its use to
non-commercial.

A while back Esri provided an easy way for agencies to open their data up
to OSM, including making it available in RapID and Map-with-ai. Their blog
post has instructions for how to make the data available for use in OSM.
I've reached out to a couple to help me understand how difficult it is to
implement. Once I get some feedback I plan to write a diary entry to with
suggestions on how to get your local agencies to open their data up to OSM.
Mike - I'd contact the open data owner and ask if they could implement the
suggestions in the blog, specifically for Open Data Portals.

[1]
https://www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/products/arcgis-living-atlas/mapping/arcgis-data-support-in-osm-editors/

Best,
Clifford


On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 11:57 AM Mike Thompson <miketho16 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mike,
>
> My understanding is just because data is "open", does not mean that it's
> license is compatible with OSM.
>
> In the example you cited, the roads dataset says "no license specified."
> Try to get the data owner to given you explicit permission to use in OSM,
> or at least cite a license so that we may evaluate its suitability.
>
> Mike
>
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 11:45 AM Mike N <niceman at att.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> If a county runs an open data portal, is this suitable for usage in
>> Openstreetmap?
>>
>>
>>
>> https://pcgis-pickenscosc.opendata.arcgis.com/search?groupIds=28849116eea848b7a883e9aa8c109ca6
>>
>>    Thanks,
>>
>>    Mike
>>
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