[Talk-ca] User r_coastlines

[john whelan]

But recently I noted that the CANVEC tags are being removed.  Two people in
the talk-ca list mentioned recently they had done so.

Cheerio John

On 19 December 2011 15:38, Frank Steggink <steggink at steggink.org> wrote:

> On 19-12-2011 20:38, john whelan wrote:
>
>> Yes because it is the individual contributor who has to accept the OSM's
>> new licensing terms, the data was not imported directly from CANVEC into
>> OSM.
>>
>> As a Canadian tax payer I'm not quite certain I like the idea of OSM
>> having the power to re-license Government data but that is a separate issue.
>>
>>  John,
>
> Whether you like it or not, NRCan explicitly allows it, as long as they
> are attributed as the source:
>
> /All distributed data should be accessed and used relatively to the
> GeoGratis Unrestricted Use Licence Agreement <http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/
> **geogratis/en/licence.jsp<http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/licence.jsp>>.
> With this licence, users are granted a non-exclusive, fully paid,
> royalty-free right and licence to exercise all intellectual property rights
> in the data. This includes the right to use, incorporate, sublicense (with
> further right of sublicensing), modify, improve, further develop, and
> distribute the data; and to manufacture and/or distribute Derivative
> Products. The Licensee shall identify the source of the Data, in the
> following manner, where any of the Data are redistributed, or contained
> within Derivative Products: "© Department of Natural Resources Canada. All
> rights reserved."
> /
> See: http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/**geogratis/en/index.html<http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/index.html>
>
> Furthermore, NRCan is even spending your tax dollars to facilitate
> incorporating their data into OSM.
>
> Personally, as a former Canadian tax payer I can say that what NRCan does
> is one of the best ways of my tax dollars being spent :) It's too bad that
> the national mapping agency which is currently being funded by my tax euros
> takes a way less proactive stance towards open data. At least by decree of
> our Ministry of Economy, Agriculture and Innovation, a lot of geospatial
> and other data will be open in a few weeks :)
>
> Every time when your government is doing something you don't like, are you
> going to share that with the world as well?
>
> Frank
>
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