[Talk-ca] Aerial imagery for Nanaimo, BC

[Paul Norman]

License issues seem to expand to fill my available time.

 

Nanaimo’s license is different than the OGL (a UK license) in a few ways. I
don’t think anyone has analyzed it for ODbL compatibility. One minor mistake
that was made was defining an Information Provider solely as The City of
Nanaimo, unlike the original OGL which defined it as the person or
organization. That’s the biggest issue I’m aware of with it, but I believe
when publishing open data under a self-developed license the onus should be
on the on the publisher to consider compatibility with other licenses. After
all – what good is open data if you can’t combine it with existing data
sets. 

 

There are one or two datasets I would love to use immediately and a few more
I would like to use when I get the time to sit down and do some work, but
both are on hold because I’m not certain if their license is ODbL
compatible.

 

It would be helpful if the publisher of the data or the license (The City of
Nanaimo) made a statement on the compatibility of their license with the
OGL. It’d also be useful to know about CC BY/CC BY-SA compatibility, but
that isn’t necessary for use with OSM.

 

From: Tim Whitehead [mailto:spero.shiropetto at gmail.com] 
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2013 4:55 PM
To: 'David E. Nelson'
Cc: 'Paul Norman'; talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
Subject: RE: [Talk-ca] Aerial imagery for Nanaimo, BC

 

I am no legal person by any means, and Nanaimo has adopted v2 of the OGL
since I last looked at it. Paul Norman mentioned he was going to look into
it when there was a moment to do so.

The way I read v2 of the license is that it is available to use so long as
you acknowledge the source with the defined attribution statement of the
region.

 

“Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Nanaimo.”

 

If multiple sources were used or multiple attributions are not practical,
one would use

 

“Contains information licensed under the Open Government License – British
Columbia.”

 

http://www.nanaimo.ca/EN/main/departments/106/DataCatalogue/Licence.html

http://www.data.gov.bc.ca/local/dbc/docs/license/OGL-vbc2.0.pdf

 

Though it looks like they missed updating the last paragraph under
Versioning.

 

 

To answer your actual question though, nope I am not aware of another WMS
source J

 

Cheers,

Tim 

 

From: David E. Nelson [mailto:denelson83 at yahoo.ca] 
Sent: October 20, 2013 4:12 PM
To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
Subject: [Talk-ca] Aerial imagery for Nanaimo, BC

 

Does anyone know of an OSM-compatible free WMS source we can use for aerial
imagery for all of Nanaimo?  Bing does not have street-level imagery for
Nanaimo north of 49.14°N and east of 123.94°W

 

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