[OSM-talk-be] Getting information from organisations [Was: Bus, tram and metro lines]

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 11:03:48PM +0200, Nicolas Pettiaux wrote:
> 2008/6/28 Dennis Bollyn <dennis at gyrbo.be>:
> > I tried contacting several of these (De Lijn, NGI, ...), but never
> > received a reply. I'm guessing that without some personal contacts or
> > other leverage, you won't get through.
> >
> > If you do manage to get something from them, there are plenty of people
> > willing to help in the conversion to an OSM compatible format.
> 
> just for your information, I did never got an answer to any email I
> sent first. Then I called, explained the case 2 or 3 times until I
> reached the best person who listened to me, but to whom I had to
> explain in detail the case again, and to whom I sent an email
> afterwards, confirming and reexplaining what I just did explain
> orally. In such a way, I got the personnal contact.
> 
> But I keep sending first a letter just to say "I did first try to sent
> you a letter".
> 
> This takes time indeed and much energy, but can be rewarding for our project.
> 
> I hesitate to post a precise description of what I did, because I
> first considered that I would have to let the names appear on a wiki
> page or so and that my contacts would not appreciate this, but I now
> think that I'll set up a page on the OSM wiki to let you know what I
> did so that we can all be better coordinated.

I actually got a reply from AGIV last week, but didn't have time
to reply to it yet.  Did you set up this page yet?

Anyway, the response that I got so far says that they can only give
licenses for non-commericial usage.  And the license we're using does
allow commercial usage.  It's also unclear now what that license would
be and if it would be compatible with ours.

I've asked about things like the ortho photo's which, as far as I
understand things, we could claim copyright on if we use that to trace
things.  But then the license on the photo would still need to allow to
do that.  I think I want to atleast go that way for now.

Opinions?


Kurt