[Talk-ca] Open Data for Airdrie AB

[Joshua Kenney]

If I can obtain explicit permission from the city, would I still need to 
wait for the LWG approval?

--Joshua

On 2019-04-22 16:03, Jarek Piórkowski wrote:
> Hi Joshua,
>
> Welcome to OSM, and thank you for your contributions!
>
> To answer your first question: the non-building data sets (parks,
> address points, bus stops, etc) are not currently importable without
> further effort: we would have to get that exact licence (with text
> including "City of Airdrie") approved by the OSM Licensing Working
> Group. I don't know if the LWG would object to the attribution
> requirements, possibly not, but the approval itself might take quite a
> while anyway, as lawyer things don't move fast.
>
> --Jarek
>
> On Mon, 22 Apr 2019 at 15:42, Joshua Kenney <kenney_45 at hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Hello everybody!
>> Relatively new mapper here.  I've been working on mapping my home town, and a couple of other places I've been, for the past 3 or 4 months.
>>
>> I have found that my city of Airdrie, AB has a number of datasets available under an Open Data Licence:
>>
>> http://data-airdrie.opendata.arcgis.com/pages/our-open-licence
>> The licence terms look straight forward enough, are there any additional steps I need to take to confirm compatibility with OSM?
>>
>> One of the datasets includes building footprints.  Would importing that get in the way of the import of the national data? Where can I access the national data to compare the quality?
>>
>> --Joshua
>>
>>
>>
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