[Talk-ca] Bus stops in Ottawa

John Marshall rps333 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 1 23:46:33 UTC 2016


I agree Tristan

John

John Marshall
On Mar 1, 2016 18:43, "Tristan Anderson" <andersontristan at hotmail.com>
wrote:

> Let's not be too hasty in removing large amounts of data, imported years
> ago and subsequently edited by several users in various ways, simply
> because it may or may not be compatible with a future OSM license.  If you
> guys are 100% sure this import contravened ODbL, or if the City of Ottawa's
> lawyers contact OSM with concerns, then by all means redact it.  But to me,
> and I admittedly don't know much when it comes to licensing, we should
> leave this alone for the time being.
>
> This isn't something that needs to be re-imported every year.  Minor
> changes to the bus network that occur from time to time can be updated by
> hand by local users.  I see some updates have already taken place since the
> import was made.  As for duplicate bus stops resulting from a node
> predating the import: I've come across this at least once in the past in a
> neigbourhood I was editing after a recent visit to Ottawa.  I merged the
> tags and deleted the more recent stop.
>
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> To: talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
> From: penorman at mac.com
> Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2016 08:40:45 +0100
> Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Bus stops in Ottawa
>
> On 2016-02-29 2:46 AM, john whelan 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.
>
> Data needs to be compatible with our license, which is the ODbL.[1]
>
> Is anyone going to take the responsibility on for removing the data?
>
> Copyright incompatible data needs to be redacted, not just deleted. I'd
> normally be the one doing this, but I'm traveling today.
>
>
> http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License#Can_third-party_ODbL-licensed_data_be_imported.3F
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