[Talk-ca] Edmonton GIS Open Data

[Sam Vekemans]

Cool,
Please expand & help update the wiki. :)
I think that you were importing a test data area for TCT bus stops?
(on the assumption that the licence was OK)
Would be great if you could expand further. As my intrepretation differs.
The Land Information Ontario data - has the "unrestricted end user licence"
it would be great to clear up the inconsistances on the Canada Import
page, so were all on the same page.

I noticed a higher emphasis on the 'edmonton residences' and less on
'general public'.

I'll need to read it over in detail &the other cities TOS & compare.

Thanks for pointing it out.
Sam


On 2/22/10, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 8:48 PM, Sam Vekemans
> <acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>> For those folks in Edmonton,
>> The city is in the Review phase of how to share the data.
>>
>> http://data.edmonton.ca/
>>
>> It looks like the license is great,
>
> No it doesn't.
>
> http://www.edmonton.ca/city_government/open_data/open-data-terms-of-use.aspx
>
> The section "Liability for Not Complying with Terms of Use" requires
> the user to hold the city of Edmonton harmless and take responsibility
> for legal fees etc.   This that same license used in Vancouver and
> Toronto and other.  There are other problems with it as well.  Awful.
> Not acceptable for OSM in my opinion.
>


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