[Talk-ca] Vancouver Open Data New Layer

[Richard Weait]

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Sam Vekemans
<acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> cc:
> "OSGeo Local Chapter, British Columbia, Canada" <osgeo-bc at lists.osgeo.org>,
> "Talk-CA OpenStreetMap" <talk-ca at openstreetmap.org>,
>
> Its great to see this new parks data available!  The Team of OpenStreetMap
> in the Vancouver area is happy to see it it available for use.

Dear Sam,

This data, and all of the Vancouver data, is not available for use in
OpenStreetMap.  Their license is not currently compatible with
OpenStreetMap, or in fact any other data as far as I can tell.

Details and license review here:
http://weait.com/content/unintended-restrictions

and Related articles

http://weait.com/content/tragedy-edmontorcouver-open-data
http://weait.com/content/better-approach-municipal-open-data
http://weait.com/content/another-approach-open-municipal-data