[Talk-ca] Community consultation re Windsor Hackforge OSMF Local Chapter Application

[john whelan]

I would have serious concerns on the Open Data side.

As far as I am aware only the City of Ottawa's Open Data licence in Ontario
meets the requirements of OpenStreetMap.  The federal government's licence
also meets the OpenStreetMap's requirements but no other municipal Open
Data licence in Ontario meets the requirements and has been vetted by the
LWG.

The problem for OSM is if they start to add in Open Data it looks as if
they have some authority to do it given if they become a chapter.

I really would like to see some discussion with them on this mailing list.

Cheerio John

On Mon, May 23, 2022, 12:18 Steve Singer <steve at ssinger.info> wrote:

> On Mon, 23 May 2022, Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone!
> >
> > I'm Eugene, one of the members of the Board of the OSM Foundation. I
> would just like to ask mappers and the local community from Ontario,
> > especially those based in the City of Windsor and Essex County. The OSMF
> received an application from Windsor Hackforge
> > (https://hackf.org/) to become an OSMF Local Chapter. Please see the
> application documents here:
> >
> https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Local_Chapters/Applications/Windsor-Essex_Ontario_Canada
> >
> > My question is, would the local community feel comfortable with Windsor
> Hackforge becoming a Local Chapter for the Windsor-Essex area? As
> > stated in the OSMF website, "Local Chapters are country-level or
> region-level not-for-profit legal entities representing the area's OSM
> > mappers and OSM data when dealing with local government, business, and
> media." Does Windsor Hackforge fit the bill?
>
> I don't see much OSM specific activity under https://hackf.org. They have
> sub-groups for a variety of technologies but not OSM.  I also don't
> remember
> them running any/many OSM themed events (mapping parties etc).
>
> The opendatawindsor group
> (http://hackf.org/initiatives/opendatawindsoressex/) doesn't even mention
> openstreetmap and it looks like it was using municipal data not OSM data.
>
> Steve
>
>
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > Eugene Alvin Villar
> > OSM Foundation Board
> >
> >
>
>
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