[OSM-legal-talk] OpenStreetMap Geocoded Replication Data and Licensing

[Rudloff, Peter J]

Thank you for the reply.  I followed the "Updated geocoding community guideline proposal" thread from July/August, and just wanted to be sure I was using, attributing, and potentially distributing the replication data properly in our research.

Peter Rudloff
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From: Alex Barth [alex at mapbox.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 12:47 PM
To: Licensing and other legal discussions.
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OpenStreetMap Geocoded Replication Data and Licensing

Peter -

>  Do we have the ability to assign our own license to this replication data, or will we have to release the replication data under the ODC Open Database License?

My read is yes, you have the ability to assign your own license to the dataset you're creating. Note you'll have to attribute OpenStreetMap.

Background of this interpretation is here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Geocoding_-_Guideline

(Note this document is a draft but not an officially sanctioned guideline, in recent discussions there were diverging opinions).


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Rudloff, Peter J <peter.rudloff at okstate.edu<mailto:peter.rudloff at okstate.edu>> wrote:
I have a question regarding a research project I and my colleague are working on at Oklahoma State University.  We are working with a dataset of terrorist events that contains location data such as "city name, administrative/state name, country name".  We are planning on geocoding the dataset with the MapQuest Open Geocoding API Web Service, which uses the OpenStreetMap data.  The Global Terrorism Database (http://www.start.umd.edu/gtd/) we are using contains approximately 70,000 events (although many are duplicates in terms of location) that will be geocoded (i.e. associated with latitude, longitude, etc. from the OpenStreetMap data).  My question pertains to the license we are allowed to use when distributing our replication data, which would contain within it some data drawn from the OpenStreetMap data (i.e. latitude and longitude).  As this is an academic project we hope to publish, we want to make our data available to others for easy analysis and replication, etc.  Do we have the ability to assign our own license to this replication data, or will we have to release the replication data under the ODC Open Database License?

Also, is there anything else that you would like researchers to do when publishing work using the OpenStreetMap data, such as using a particular citation, notifying the OpenStreetMap Foundation when a work is published that used OpenStreetMap data, etc.?

Peter Rudloff

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