[OSM-talk-be] Road numbers

[Mark Van den Borre]

2008/9/21 Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> I've found a very nice document containing *all* data about numbered
> roads in Belgium on our government's site:
> http://www.mobilit.fgov.be/data/mobil/Tel_ARNP.xls
>
> Now, for the logical question, can we use that table to extract those
> road numbers to add them in OSM? It does have a copyright on the legend
> tabs "(c) FODMV - SPFMT - since 1999 - by G. L. (updated begin 2005)" so
> I wouldn't use it for more than just getting road numbers, but can we
> even do just that?
As far as I understand it after consulting with a lawyer who
specialises in this, three legal issues are relevant here:
* reuse of government information (not sure about this one)
* database rights (15 year period, not over yet)
* authoring rights, requires creativity (most probably not applicable here)

So right now, the answer, as I understand it, is no. You would need to
ask for permission to use this list.

Mark
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