[Talk-ca] BC2020 OD_tables wiki and project status

[john whelan]

If you map from Bing imagery there is no issue.  If you do map from Bing
please use the building_tool plugin in JOSM.  We tend to find new mappers
using iD are not very accurate.

If the city has an Open Data file of the building outlines then it must be
available under a licence that OpenStreetMap can accept.  Part of the
problem is you can use OpenStreetMap for anything.

The Canadian Federal Government noticed there were problems with their Open
Data licence for OpenStreetMap amongst others they came up with version
2.0.  Ottawa was the first municipality to adopt the new license and it
took about five years to get it sorted out from start to finish.

I was involved in the original import and was under the impression that
since we were importing CANVEC data and that was available under the 2.0
license that the municipal equivalent license was acceptable. Some Stats
Canada addresses had been imported from the TB open data portal in Toronto
and they were under the same impression.

It became apparent that the CANVEC imports were not done under the 2.0
license in OSM's eyes.

The TB 2.0 and the Ottawa Open Data license was referred to the LWG for
their opinion.  Their opinion was they were acceptable.  However they
wished to view any other Open Data licenses in Canada before giving their
benediction.

Some Open Data licenses say and if we don't like what you are doing you
must remove our data.  This is an example on something that OSM would find
unacceptable.

Once the outlines are in place then other tags can be added.

Cheerio John

On 28 January 2018 at 13:50, Jonathan Brown <jonabrow at gmail.com> wrote:

> If we have a description of the scope of the work involved in updating the
> BC2020 OD tables, I don’t mind trying to find some senior students who
> could be trained to take on this task for locations in Ontario. It would be
> a very small start, of course. Also, can someone explain to me the
> licensing issue? How do datasets released under the open government license
> not meet the legal requirements of the OSM license?
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