[OSM-talk-be] Cell Phones Antennas

[Lennard]

On 21-4-2011 22:14, Pol wrote:

> Someone forwarded me the mail from Lennard talking about the revert or
> not of my commit.
> I wasn't aware of the existence of that mailing list until now.
>
> Let me explain to all of you how it all began...

[cut a whole story of how you found a hole in a government site and how 
in the end, after they fixed it, you extracted all antennas you could find]

> With the new system, it's even easier to get their datas.
> I decided to save in a file all the data I could get from their map in a
> file and submit it to OpenStreetMap.
>
> That's the end of the story.

I don't think it is. You've not addressed any of my concerns except the 
question of where the data originated. Now that we've established it 
came from BIPT/IBPT, I think it's safe to say the data needs to be 
removed from OSM. Unless of course you have explicit approval from them 
that you can import their data into OSM. In that case I would ask you to 
document that approval in the Import Catalogue.

In general, we cannot use any government data in Belgium without 
explicit permission. Either to any user or to OSM specifically.

Also noteworthy is that the map on ibpt.be says "Door deze site te 
gebruiken zijn de gebruikers gebonden door de gebruiksvoorwaarden van 
Google." / "En utilisant ce site, les utilisateurs sont tenus par les 
conditions d'utilisation de Google."

-- 
Lennard