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

[brendan barrett]

I found their agreement here:
http://citymaps.durban.gov.za/license_agreement.htm

Perhaps that helps others here with their advice.

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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