[Talk-ca] Ottawa has changed its Open Data licence.

[john whelan]

I'm fairly certain that the city owns the bus stops and doesn't rent them
from a third party.

Do you have an example of what to look for for the GTFS data?

Thanks John

On 14 September 2016 at 22:18, Stewart C. Russell <scruss at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 2016-09-14 05:15 PM, john whelan wrote:
> > http://ottawa.ca/en/mobile-apps-and-open-data/open-data-
> licence-version-20
>
> This is very neat! I noticed it yesterday, but was too jetlagged from
> XOXO to say anything.
>
> > It should now be aligned with the Federal Government one so that should
> > mean we can import the GTFS bus stop file.
>
> In theory, yes, but please check with the city that they have all
> third-party rights cleared in any data set you propose to import. As was
> recently discussed on the Legal-talk list, OGL does not cover
> third-party rights:
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2016-
> September/008541.html
>
> (This is something that Bjenk and the Stat Can team will need to take
> seriously for any import data sets they wish to use)
>
> cheers,
>  Stewart
>
>
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