[Talk-ca] BC2020 OD_tables wiki and project status

[James]

CC Attribution is compatible with explicit permission, so Gatineau and
Montreal may remain on the list.....

On Jan 28, 2018 5:20 PM, "OSM Volunteer stevea" <steveaOSM at softworkers.com>
wrote:

> On Jan 28, 2018, at 1:27 PM, Matthew Darwin <matthew at mdarwin.ca> wrote:
> > Steve A,
> > I suspect nobody fully knows the current status of licences... So I
> would agree with the action that you wrote:
> > every city except for Ottawa rightfully should be removed to end the
> confusion, updating both wikis.
>
> OK, now done.
>
> In Contributors, following the existing example of Toronto, I have used
> strikeout type.  To be clear, I ONLY did this for eight of the ten
> "Canadian Municipalities" listed there, leaving Ottawa in plain type
> indicating "Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence
> – City of Ottawa." and its embedded link.  (I left Yellowknife yellow, it
> is 100% done, that may or may not be the correct color, it might be red).
> I did NOT change Canadian Provinces (of which British Columbia is the only
> one listed) nor Natural Resources Canada.  Whew.
>
> PLEASE, I ask others to double- or triple- or multiple-check me here!  Do
> these (local licenses in Canada) reflect the current state of reality?  We
> (here in talk-ca) believe they do, we (OSM) welcome any updates directly to
> the Contributors wiki.  Thank you.
>
> In the BC2020 OD wiki, they are all red except for Ottawa, which remains
> green and Yellowknife which remains yellow as it is 100% done, though it
> may be conflation for me to be thinking that way and perhaps it goes red,
> meaning, license not approved.  Hm, Yellowknife to red but left as done,
> both true apparently.  Uh....
>
> This does lead to (at least me asking) "hm, how did 80% done get into
> Edmonton and Yellowknife 100%, I'll leave that alone for now.  (I'm
> guessing "via Bing or other visual layer, and JOSM and maybe a plug-in and
> a toolchain and so on...).  Two separate issues:  local licenses and "how
> much is done anyway."  I'm putting pieces together, disassembling
> stovepipes, as it were.  A wider (than Canada) OSM community does better
> understand some status via our wiki.
>
> It is likely that we simply need a total run-through of what is
> everybody's understanding up and down our wiki, toolchains, processes,
> lines of communication, etc.  A sort of thing that is done on a talk page
> and via wikis.  It appears to be a national conversation.
>
> Steady ahead.
>
> SteveA
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