[Talk-ca] can I submit road data?

[Jarek Piórkowski]

The limitation is generally licensing.

Openstreetmap can accept an import of data that is freely licensed, but the
criteria for "freely" are fairly strict - most Canadian cities' "open data"
don't meet it. If you're familiar with Creative Commons, the license will
likely have to be as free or more free as cc-by-sa. In particular, a lot of
Canadian open data licenses have indemnification clauses which rule them
out as sources.

Otherwise, if you're familiar with the area you can try editing the roads
manually - there is a number of satellite imagery sources which has been
approved for tracing in OSM, and you can use personal knowledge as source
for things like road surfaces or widths.

--Jarek

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 13:55 Jason Carlson, <jason at starlandcounty.com> wrote:

> I noticed a number of roads in our county are incorrect in our area (as
> are most rural areas with next to no population). I recently rebuilt all
> our GIS road data and submitted it to an organization that then
> redistributes it to emergency dispatch services and about 25
> organizations/companies. I did not see OpenStreetMap as one of the ones
> they send data too so I was wondering if I could submit that data myself to
> them?
>
> Jason
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