[OSM-talk-be] atlas der buurtwegen/des chemins vicinaux - legal aspects

[Ben Laenen]

On Tuesday 26 August 2008, Mark Van den Borre wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> >> The good news. We are most likely to get this use granted, but we
> >> do have to send in a request before we can do so.
> >
> > Perhaps we need to convince our minister of administrative
> > simplification Van Quickenborne that the government has to make
> > everything available in public domain like in the US :-)
>
> You seem to be joking. For some outdated information, something like
> that shouldn't be too difficult to accomplish.

That's the problem right? It's outdated, municipality borders have 
changed in many cases. If we use these old maps to trace them we can't 
be sure that they're still correct.

It seems so awkward that it's so difficult to get up to date information 
about something as important as administrative boundaries.

I've just asked the person who made the maps in wikipedia like 
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afbeelding:MapWaregem.svg how he made 
them. Let's see if he found some good source (he "should" have since he 
licensed it GFDL and CC-BY-SA, but let's be sure first before just 
using it :-) )

Ben