[OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for data sources

[Paul Norman]

I’m going to just be using the 2008 orthographs, but that is for technical reasons as I don’t feel confident I could handle the shp -> osm conversion. The import itself for some of the items would likely be easy – I doubt anyone has gone and tagged the streetlights or some of the other more obscure features.

 

I’ll also be trying to get their 10cm orthophotos. The form they have them up in is rather useless, but that is once again a technical issue. 

 

I feel like there is definitely an issue with how acceptable licenses are communicated. The PDDL is a license that is likely to be found multiple places, but I was unable to find anything that said it was okay to use data from those sources. 

 

From: legal-talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:legal-talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Michael Barabanov
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2010 8:02 PM
To: Licensing and other legal discussions.
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Licenses for data sources

 

Hi Paul,

re Vancouver, please see
http://weait.com/content/tragedy-edmontorcouver-open-data
http://weait.com/content/unintended-restrictions

re PDDL:
http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/summary/
No restrictions are listed.   Since they have vector data available, importing that (as opposed to tracing) should be the way to go.

Michael.

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 6:10 PM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:

Is there a consolidated list of licenses that are acceptable on data sources for use for importing or tracing into OSM? I ask this question because wiki information has been contradicted by email discussion on the subject of City of Vancouver open data.

 

Additionally, is it acceptable to trace from PDDL orthography into OSM? The City of Surrey has some orthography of a very high quality and they have released it and all of their GIS data under PDDL. I would expect PDDL to be compatible, but having received contradictory information once, I’m checking.

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