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

[Victor Chwieros]

Would this imply we can use AlbertaParks' said data set or do we need to 
obtain an explicit permission?

http://data.alberta.ca/blog/alberta-open-information-and-open-data-policy

This is a new policy and I do not understand what implementation of the 
policy entails.

Victor

On 14-05-15 10:49 AM, Andrew Lester wrote:
> 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>"
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> "<useconst>No constraints within TPR. Data provided to external clients are for their internal use only. Data are not to be redistributed.</useconst>"
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> 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.
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> Andrew
> alester
> Victoria, BC, Canada
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> Are we allowed to use the Alberta Park's Protected Areas (Shapefile) in OSM?
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> Data source is the last entry on this list:
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> http://www.albertaparks.ca/albertaparksca/library/downloadable-data-sets.aspx
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> Reason I ask is that a number of the provincial parks have not been mapped. One example is:
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> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinbrook_Island_Provincial_Park
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> http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/50.4407/-111.9076
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> 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.
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> Victor
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