[OSM-talk-be] Corine Land Cover France import overlapping in Belgium

[Pieren]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Ben Laenen <benlaenen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd say, just upload whatever you have in Belgium. We don't have access to the
> CLC, and I don't think we'll ever have it, as our National Geographic
> Institution is selling them at €2500 http://www.ngi.be/NL/NL1-5-4.shtm (site
> currently down) -- and I don't think we'd be able to use it for OSM even if
> we'd buy it.

Ok, thanks for the reply. Our contact at the french ministry said that
opening the licence for Corine (for free and commercial reuse) is also
discussed at the european level. But so far, only two countries
changed their licence.

> Will there be a way to also get the polygons which weren't uploaded because
> they would overlap already existing polygons? Since CLC is likely more
> accurate than the polygons there are now near the French border.

Yes, at the moment, we prepare one big osm file for the import of non
overlapping polygones. The others are also in several .osm files
sorted by categories (forest, water, landuse, etc) but we still don't
know exactly how we will make them available for manual consolidations
(ideally a wms server).

regards
Pieren