[OSM-legal-talk] Series of maps for Angola

[Marcus Love]

Hi Christoph,

  Thanks for the response. I reviewed the substantial guidelines, and I feel that it would be substantial as if I used it for one admin line, I'd want to use it for the entire country. 

   And as you say below, that if I use my own source of admin boundaries to form language polygons overlaid on the OSM boundaries, they will have mismatches. I compared what we currently have with Angola, and there are many places where our boundaries and OSM boundaries already coincide, but there are quite a few places where they differ. I'll keep looking into how I might be able to turn off/only download background without OSM admin boundaries to see if it is possible.

Thanks,
Marcus 

-----Original Message-----
From: Christoph Hormann [mailto:chris_hormann at gmx.de] 
Sent: Friday, January 20, 2017 10:13 AM
To: Licensing and other legal discussions.
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Series of maps for Angola

On Friday 20 January 2017, Marcus Love wrote:
> I was
> thinking, that if I use OSM as a background, that I could edit the 
> language polygons that we have to follow along OSM admin boundaries 
> where they coincide. However, if I do that, would it then make those 
> polygons that I've edited a 'derivative database'?

Probably yes, this depends on the extent to which you make use of OSM data in your proprietary data set.  See also:

http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Community_Guidelines/Substantial_-_Guideline

If you'd just adjust your polygons at a handful of places to fix major mismatches that would normally be considered insubstantial.

>   If that isn't possible to adapt our language polygons to OSM admin 
> boundaries without it becoming a derivative database, then we would 
> use another source for the admin boundaries. Is it possible to use an 
> OSM background and turn off/toggle the admin boundaries for the 
> basemap? Otherwise, we will have language boundaries which will be 
> slightly off the OSM admin boundaries, and wouldn't look that great 
> and might be confusing on the map.

If you render an OSM based map without OSM based admin boundaries and add admin boundaries from a different source you have no derivative database, see:

http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Community_Guidelines/Horizontal_Map_Layers_-_Guideline

Note however in such a map you would then simply have other mismatches, i.e. between the admin boundaries and OSM based basemap features instead of between the admin boundaries and your special thematic layer.

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Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/

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