[Talk-ca] Alberta Park's Data on Protected Areas – Legal or not

[Andrew Lester]

I couldn't see a license anywhere on that site other than the copyright notice at the bottom of the page (which very unequivocally states we can't use anything on the website), so I downloaded the dataset to see if there was anything in there. Inside the XML file in the dataset are the following:
"<purpose>Data provided for internal use within Alberta Tourism, Parks and Recreation (TPR). Within TPR, data for sites designated by Order-in-Council, and data pertaining to Crown Reservations, are managed in the same dataset. For external clients, data are provided as separate shapefiles. (Designated Parks & Protected Areas, vs. Crown Reservations).</purpose>"

and

"<useconst>No constraints within TPR. Data provided to external clients are for their internal use only. Data are not to be redistributed.</useconst>"

Now, IANAL, but those would seem to indicate that we can't use this data in OSM. We could still ask them for explicit permission, though, to see if they'll override the above.

Andrew
alester
Victoria, BC, Canada

----- Original Message -----
From: "Victor Chwieros" <wchwieros at yahoo.com>
To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 8:15:13 PM
Subject: [Talk-ca] Alberta Park's Data on Protected Areas – Legal or not




Are we allowed to use the Alberta Park's Protected Areas (Shapefile) in OSM? 

Data source is the last entry on this list: 

http://www.albertaparks.ca/albertaparksca/library/downloadable-data-sets.aspx 

Reason I ask is that a number of the provincial parks have not been mapped. One example is: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinbrook_Island_Provincial_Park 

http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/50.4407/-111.9076 


I checked the NRCan data and it is not part of the “Atlas of Canada 1,000,000 National Frameworks Data, Protected Areas-Protected Areas” - so we can't get the park boundary from there. 


Victor 




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