[OSM-legal-talk] Possible datasources: Corine Land Cover 2000dataset

Ciprian Talaba cipriantalaba at gmail.com
Sun Mar 15 21:32:59 GMT 2009


Hi Andy, Jukka,

I have created a new entry on the Potential Datasources wiki page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Potential_Datasources&action=submit#Corine_Land_Cover_2000_datasets.


I am also posting this to OSM-talk so more people can review the possibility
of using this dataset. Because Jukka pointed out that on another page
http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/dataservice/metadetails.asp?id=950 the
copyright notice is different:

Rights:
>    EEA grants free access to all its data/applications provided that the
> user agrees:
>    · to acknowledge the source as follows: Copyright EEA, Copenhagen, 2007
>    · to display a link to the EEA web site http://www.eea.europa.eu
>    · not to use the data/applications for commercial purposes unless the
> Agency has expressly granted the right to do so
>

I will try to contact the Agency and obtain an official answer about the
usage. In the meantime feel free to give any feedback on the matter.

Thanks,
Ciprian


On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:21 PM, Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) <
ajrlists at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Ciprian Talaba:
> >Sent: 12 March 2009 9:28 AM
> >To: legal-talk at openstreetmap.org
> >Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Possible datasources: Corine Land Cover
> >2000dataset
> >
> >Hi all,
> >
> >I know the discussion lately have been towards agreeing about an OSM
> >license, and probably this is not the best time to ask this question.
> >But I came across Corine Land Cover 2000 datasets and I want to make sure
> >that they can be use in OSM. The organization behind CLC 2000 is European
> >Environment Agency (EEA) and the website where the dataset is available
> >have some legal information like:
> >1. on the page http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright
> >"Unless otherwise indicated, the information available from this site is
> >within the public domain. Public domain information on the EEA web pages
> >may be downloaded free of charge, and reproduced provided the source is
> >acknowledged*.
> >.............................
> >* Citing this website"
> >
> >2. on the page http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/landuse/clc-download from
> >where you can download the datasets, in the tab "My details" where is the
> >following notice:
> >"The information available in this application is under copyright of EEA
> >and within the public domain. Public domain information in this
> application
> >may
> >be used free of charge, provided the source is acknowledged. The
> >acknowledgment should read (c) EEA, Copenhagen, 2007"
> >
> >So my opinion is that we can use data from CLC 2000 as long as we add the
> >source as a tag to each imported element. So you see any problems in using
> >this dataset?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Ciprian
>
> Ciprian,
>
> I would suggest you drop this information on a wiki page and ask for
> comments there as well. At face value on what you have put in your email it
> looks similar to other data sets that require attribution. We normally deal
> with that as you say by adding the correct source tag and also placing the
> attribution on the wiki page at
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors and or
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution (looks like those two pages
> should be combined or redirect to just one.)
>
> As a final confirmation its worth writing to the data provider explaining
> the intention and how attribution is dealt with. That at least shows a
> paper
> trail if anyone asks a question at a later date.
>
> Finally its worth doing any imports under a specifically set up username,
> that way its easy to identify the original upload of data.
>
> Hope these pointers help.
>
> Cheers
>
> Andy
>
>
>
>
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