[Talk-ca] Bus stops in Ottawa

James james2432 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 1 23:52:22 UTC 2016


I may not be a lawyer....but I agree with Tristan and John
On Mar 1, 2016 6:47 PM, "John Marshall" <rps333 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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