[Talk-ca] Bus stops in Ottawa

James james2432 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 29 18:02:13 UTC 2016


There's also the problem: how do you know that the bus stop was from an
import vs user created.
On Feb 28, 2016 8:48 PM, "john whelan" <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think with the clause in the uploading terms that OSM can change the
> license its very difficult to import anything as it is difficult to say to
> City of Ottawa etc we'd like your data but we don't know what license it
> may have in OSM in the future.
>
> Is anyone going to take the responsibility on for removing the data?
>
> Thanks
>
> Cheerio John
>
> On 28 February 2016 at 20:37, Stewart C. Russell <scruss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi John, and all —
>>
>> If this is the GTFS data for Ottawa:
>>
>>         http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/oc-transpo-schedules
>>
>> then it's published under the City of Ottawa Open Data - Terms of use:
>>
>>         http://ottawa.ca/en/mobile-apps-and-open-data/open-data-terms-use
>>
>> This licence is incompatible with the ODbL used by OSM:
>>
>>         http://clipol.org/licences/16?tab=licence_compatibility
>>
>> and therefore these data, and any others derived from Ottawa municipal
>> data sets, should be removed from the map.
>>
>> I know that there may be commuting apps that rely on these data points,
>> but it's Ottawa's silly fault for using a licence that's only compatible
>> with itself.
>>
>> cheers,
>>  Stewart
>>
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