[OSM-talk-be] Fetching maps from local gov/ city / region/proivince

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 09:30:39PM +0200, Marc Coevoet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In Nantes at http://rmll.info I heard somebody speak about maps they 
> could get from local govt.
> 
> Look here, the city of Brest & region (Communauté de Communes):
> 
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-January/033412.html
> 
> As I do not agree with the politics of hiding info that should be 
> public.  That's why I would support an upload of the flanders.esri or 
> belgium.esri file to  OSM.  About Copyrights: it will regulate 
> itself..   What if an upload is only 2% of the data a day??

I'm not really sure what you're trying to say.

The problem is not that it's copyrighted.  The problems is always
the license the copyright holder gives you.  In the future the
government will probably change the license, and that will allow
us to use their data and import it into osm.  But that doesn't mean
we can already import that data into osm.  You would be violating
copyright law because you don't have a license to do that.

Please never upload any material for which you're not sure it's
legal to do so.

I have no idea what can be considered "fair use".  But it seems to
me that 2% is already way over it.  And "2% per day" really
doesn't make sense, since you'll basicly end up copying
everything.

If you really want to know what is legal and what not, you need to
talk to a lawyer.  We already did this, and there probably was a
summary of that mailed to this list.


Kurt