[OSM-talk-be] Authorization request for use of SPW data (PICC, orthophotos and others) and OSM representative

[Thomas Bertels]

Hi,

After different emails to
* helpdesk.carto AT spw.wallonie.be (no official answer)
* carlo.diantonio AT gov.wallonie.be
* rene.collin AT gov.wallonie.be
* jeanclaude.jasselette AT spw.wallonie.be

I've finally received an email from Vincent Bombaerts 
<https://twitter.com/vbombaerts> (vincent.bombaerts AT spw.wallonie.be), 
Attaché to the SECRÉTARIAT GÉNÉRAL of the DIRECTION DE L'INTEGRATION DES 
GEODONNEES.

Following that, I've been on the phone with him and he told me that, 
like many already know, we can use the data from the SPW for OSM.
I had been requesting authorization for PICC and orthophotos, but he 
told me that there are other potentially useful data like MNT 
<http://geoportail.wallonie.be/catalogue/f3cdf392-a569-423e-889e-186c5e647cd3.html> 
(relief) and others.

However, since I'd been asking for an explicit authorization (needed for 
integration into the iD editor), he told me that the authorization 
contract templates they've got require an organization. Probably because 
the data is free of the associations without lucrative purpose.
He suggested Open Knowledge Belgium 
<https://www.openknowledge.be/about-us/>, which is the parent of 
OpenStreetMap Belgium <http://www.osm.be>.
I told him that what matters is that all OSM contributors are allowed to 
use SPW data for OSM.

He would like to have someone to talk to on behalf of the Belgian (or at 
least Walloon) OSM community, to discuss further about the terms and 
potential future cooperation with OSM.
That person would be a link with the OSM community and would represent 
it when talking with him.
Like the SPW, Vincent Bombaerts is based in Namur, but can and does go 
to mapping and related initiatives like State Of The Map 2016 
<https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/State_Of_The_Map_2016> (in 
Brussels) and FOSDEM. So the meeting(s) don't need to take place in Namur.

Is anyone interested to be that person?

Hopefully, those licensing issues should be soon a thing of the past.

Thomas Bertels
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