[OSM-talk-be] Municipality borders

[Ben Laenen]

On Saturday 07 February 2009, Renaud MICHEL wrote:
> Hello Mathias
>
> Le samedi 07 février 2009 à 09:43, Mathias Versichele a écrit :
> > one thing that has currently been bugging me is the lack of
> > municipality borders in Belgium. I have a shapefile with all the
> > municipality borders of the flemish region, but I don't know the
> > source. I got it from a source at the university a few years ago
> > for a small GIS project, but the file was never associated with any
> > metadata indicating the source... It's kind of annoying to have the
> > file there, but not be able to use it, or should I just take the
> > risk ?
>
> I would say you should not risk having someone coming  some time
> later, when the data has been integrated and enhanced, and force you
> to remove all because they don't want their intellectual property
> being used.
>
> So if you don't know where the data come from you should not used it.
>
> Maybe you could get in touch with the people who provided the data
> and ask them where it comes from.


Indeed, don't use it unless you know the source.

But please try to trace back where it comes from. Databases are usually 
very hard to get so the person who received it first should remember 
it :-)

Ben