[Talk-ca] Import City of Toronto Data

[Richard Weait]

On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Zameer Manji <zmanji at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a lot of data that can be found at
> http://www.toronto.ca/open/catalogue.htm . Perhaps we should consider
> importing some of this data to OSM? Even if we have all of the data, this
> can ensure we didn't miss anything.

Can't do it.  The City of Toronto license, like Edmonton, Vancouver,
and others is incompatible with CC-By-SA and with ODbL.  City of
Toronto is aware of this and may be looking at ways to revise their
license.

See:
http://weait.com/content/unintended-restrictions
and several other articles there.