[OSM-talk-be] Municipality borders

[Mathias Versichele]

My thoughts exactly. The people paid for the streets, why shouldn't they be
able to know where they are exactly ? I will try to find the source of the
data... probably it's agiv, maybe I can try to mail them. Has anybody got
any experience with their opinion on free geodata ?

2009/2/8 sintsixtus <sintsixtus at gmail.com>

> Ben Laenen schreef:
> > 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.
> >
> >
>
> If the source is "the taxpayer", you are "OBLIGED" to use it.  I mean,
> if the source is the Flemish Governement, you should reason that if you
> may not use it, you can run naked on the streat and fetch your pension.
>
> Look here:
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2006/mar/09/education.epublic
>
>
> Article I found reading here somewhere:
>
> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/openstreemaps_free_softwares_answer_google_and_commercially_restricted_geo_data
>
>
> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/large_hadron_collider_switches_if_its_end_world_it_will_be_powered_gnu_linux
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Mathias Versichele
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9240 Zele
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