[OSM-newbies] Sending letter asking my local authority, my first time

[Niklas Cholmkvist]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 11:41 PM, Denver Gingerich <denver at ossguy.com>wrote:

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> On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Niklas Cholmkvist  wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have a map which the technical service of my local authority gave me
> > when I visited their building and asked for a map, showing the
> > geographical boundaries of this authority.
> >
> > I now have a letter ready to be sent to them. Since it is in the Greek
> > language I've translated it to English, and made it a bit more general,
> > so it could point to any local
> > authority. I've searched in the wiki a bit in the past for a map use
> > request to a local authority, but just found such information scattered
> > around. Anyway, here is the letter:
> >
> >
> > Map of Municipality of Sykies
> >
> > To: Technical Service of the Municipality of Sykies – Department of city
> > planning & Cadastre
> > Address: Lechovou 4
> > Postal Address: 566 26
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm interested in using information that exists on the map and use it
> > (either as is or with changes) in a database of the organisation
> > openstreetmap. The geographical information that exist in this database
> > is licensed under Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported [1].
> >
> > Openstreetmap is an organisation which tries to create a free map where
> > volunteers help out with geographical information, from many places of
> > the world.
> > If it's not possible, may I have your permission to use the information
> > of the map of the municipality of Sykies and add them to the database of
> > openstreetmap?
> >
> > I'm waiting for your reply
> >
> > My name
> > My address and postcode
> > My regular phone
> > My cell/mobile number
> > My email
> > Notes:
> > [1] : Brief information on the webpage
> > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.el
> >
>
> While your link is correct, the name of the license is not.  OSM uses
> the 2.0 BY-SA license, whose full name is "Attribution-Share Alike 2.0
> Generic".
>
> > If you have any suggestions on changes, or know of a place in the wiki
> > where something like a template for such a letter can be found I would
> > be happy.
>
> I have added the legal-talk list to this thread.  This sort of thing
> is probably best discussed there instead of the newbies list.
>
> Denver
> http://ossguy.com/
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The license will change, so maybe it's better not to mention a license at
all and just say "may I add the data to the openstreetmap database?"
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