[Talk-ca] Crowdsourcing buildings with Statistics Canada

James james2432 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 02:12:23 UTC 2017


The city of Ottawa has the same license as the city of Vancouver:
http://vancouver.ca/your-government/open-data-catalogue.aspx#tab19099

Which seemed to have been deemed compatible, must we revert all vancouver
imports as well?

You have even stated that OGL-CA is compatible with ODBL in this mail
archive:
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2013-December/007685.html

On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 8:58 PM, James <james2432 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Paul your answer is not clear. what is it that the license(ODL i'm
> guessing?) would impose on top of ODBL?
>
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 8:52 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> So since it is the same license as the Feds which you have a letter of
>> interpretation saying its fine with the exception of the Ontario Privacy
>> laws does that mean the fed license is to be written off as well?
>>
>> Pity as I like my bus stops and CANVEC highways.
>>
>> Cheerio John
>>
>> On 24 January 2017 at 20:38, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 1/21/2017 3:11 PM, Paul Norman wrote:
>>>
>>> On 1/20/2017 5:33 PM, john whelan wrote:
>>>
>>> Did you include permission for the bus stops as well? They are from the
>>> same source and the same licence.  I think I might have included one pitch
>>> sport soccer.  The pitch was mapped but the sport soccer was I must confess
>>> taken from their open data source.
>>>
>>>
>>> I kept it generic, not specifying a particular dataset. That way we'll
>>> have a final answer one way or the other and won't have to go back to them
>>> all the time.
>>>
>>>
>>> The initial answer was that the license would impose obligations on top
>>> of the ODbL, our distribution license. This would make the data
>>> incompatible.
>>>
>>> I have gotten back to them with some additional questions which might
>>> offer a way forwards and clarify the problems. If I can't get anywhere
>>> we'll have to decide what to do, but it will probably mean we can write off
>>> the City of Ottawa as a potential data source.
>>>
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