[Talk-ca] BC2020 OD_tables wiki and project status

[Matthew Darwin]

Jonathan,

Please do raise the licensing issue.... it is a major blocking point 
to have imports proceed.  We cannot have a variant of the same license 
for each city, just changing the city name because the OSM license 
working group thinks these are thus all different and then needing 
another round of review.   We need one (or very small number of) 
licenses every municipality/region/province can use.

One way to solve this is to have everymunicipality/region/province 
contribute to one master data set and then make that dataset available 
to OSM.  Eg add all the buildings into CanVec.  CanVec is already 
approved. :-)


Matthew Darwin
matthew at mdarwin.ca
http://www.mdarwin.ca

On 2018-01-28 02:42 PM, Jonathan Brown wrote:
>
> Okay, I know the Open Data folks and Open Government folks in 
> Ontario. It’s their job to connect to and support the data stewards 
> within government who are releasing data through the Open Data 
> Portal. The federal open government folks are holding a meeting in 
> Toronto this Monday where the provincial and city folks are likely 
> to be in attendance. I can raise this licensing issue and how this 
> is a barrier to crowdsourcing and citizen science, something that 
> they are keen on embracing. It would be good to show them a working 
> example. Has the BC2020i OSM data been integrated into the Ottawa 
> Open Data Portal?
>
> Jonathan
>
> *From: *john whelan <mailto:jwhelan0112 at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Sunday, January 28, 2018 2:29 PM
> *To: *Jonathan Brown <mailto:jonabrow at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *talk-ca at openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk-ca at openstreetmap.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020 OD_tables wiki and project status
>
> 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 
> <mailto: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?
>
>     Jonathan
>
>
>
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