[Talk-ca] Bus maps for Ottawa

Pierre Béland infosbelas-gps at yahoo.fr
Thu Nov 15 23:40:59 GMT 2012


Richard,

Do we have a page somewhere that indicate the status of various municipalities and governements licences in Canada ?

 
Pierre 



>________________________________
> De : Richard Weait <richard at weait.com>
>À : Pierre Béland <infosbelas-gps at yahoo.fr> 
>Cc : Tom Taylor <tom.taylor.stds at gmail.com>; "talk-ca at openstreetmap.org" <talk-ca at openstreetmap.org> 
>Envoyé le : Jeudi 15 novembre 2012 17h38
>Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] Bus maps for Ottawa
> 
>On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 1:03 PM, Pierre Béland <infosbelas-gps at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>> Tom
>>
>> this Ottawa license seems compatible with ODbl. Then, I think that the data
>> can be imported.
>
>No.  Absolutely not.  The Ottawa license is derived from the broken
>and dangerous Vancouver license.  Do not touch this data, even with a
>stick.  Until the damage done by the stupid Vancouver license, we can
>not use Ottawa data.
>
>Vancouver has held back Canadian open data initiatives for more than
>three years.
>
>Also.  For data set, the full import guidelines must be followed
>without short cuts.  Ottawa data is inappropriate by way of their
>damaging license, so we can stop considering it, right here.
>
>
>
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