[OSM-legal-talk] Council Permission Request Accepted - Followup Questions?

[brendan barrett]

I would ask what their license is on this data (if there is one), or
if it is in the public domain. Perhaps explain that the project would
allow others to use the data as well.

This sounds like a great idea. I might try this in Cape Town. Let me
know how this turns out.

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Grant Slater
<openstreetmap at firefishy.com> wrote:
> Legal,
>
> On behalf of OpenStreetMap I asked a large city council (Durban, South
> Africa) for permission use their online mapping website to find the
> official names for roads and features we are missing. I also asked for
> permission (expecting to be denied) to use the shapefiles on their
> public FTP site.
> http://citymaps.durban.gov.za/
>
> Their reply from the head of their corporate GIS department:
> "You may use any of our data for your project. Note that the online map
> is very up-to-date (seldom more than 1 to 2 weeks old), whereas the FTP
> site is only updated infrequently."
>
> AFAIK, they own all their own GIS data, unlike councils in the UK.
>
> Advice...
>
> Should I; thank them and go ahead and plan a full import of their data?
> (yay)
>
> Or
>
> Should I follow-up with a few question before proceeding? Licence,
> attribution, do-you-really-mean-what-you-just-said... etc etc. What
> questions?
>
> / Grant
>
>
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