[OSM-talk-be] AGIV CRAB not usable in OSM!

[Pieter Colpaert]

Hi Ben,

there is a clear deadline! The 14th of June they are doing the Flemish 
Open Data day on which they have to show their work. That day is going 
to advertise the Flemish open data licenses as well. We just need to 
convince AGIV to start using the right ones:

http://okfn.be/2013/05/04/flemish-open-data-licenses/

Kind regards,

Pieter

On 05/17/2013 11:00 AM, Ben Abelshausen wrote:
> Bad news!
>
> The AGIV licence of the adressing data (CRAB) is NOT ok for reuse for 
> OSM. I was in the process of requesting a licence.
>
> The story is: you can get the data but when a third person is reusing 
> this they also need to sign a licence. This means that we cannot reuse 
> this data in the OSM-database. At least not copying it, maybe mapping 
> based on it and not copying would be ok...
>
> In my opinion this is not really open data, just free data as in beer! 
> I did get a response that they are aware of this limitation and are 
> working on this but there is no clear deadline. One day we will get 
> this data, including reuse, but we are not really there yet. But maybe 
> by then all addresses will be mapped already and OSM will be the 
> reference! :-)
>
> I'm very sorry about getting everybody worked-up about finally being 
> able to use this data but there was some misunderstanding about what 
> usage in OSM meant. In our case mapping or copying the data instead of 
> just geocoding on the main OSM-website.
>
> Met vriendelijke groeten,
> Best regards,
>
> Ben Abelshausen
> ben.abelshausen at gmail.com <mailto:ben.abelshausen at gmail.com>
> http://twitter.com/xivk
>
>
>
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