[Talk-GB] Glasgow Geodata

Kyle Gordon kyle at lodge.glasgownet.com
Fri Nov 30 18:20:27 GMT 2007


Hi Marco,

Almost a year ago you were very helpful in providing some data about the 
Bridge to Nowhere, and I was wondering if you may be able to help again :-)

I am quite involved in a project called OpenStreetmap 
(www.openstreetmap.org) which, with many others, are engaged in an 
effort to map the United Kingdom and beyond, whilst making this 
available for others to freely re-use, please see 
http://www.openstreetmap.org for more information. Most of our data has 
come from surveying, and we have been avoiding deriving data from other 
sources unless we have specific permission, or they are 
out-of-copyright.   For example, our road classification information has 
largely come from our observations of roadsigns.

My question is if you have any data that the council could offer to the 
project? Glasgow is in quite an incomplete state, and anything would be 
useful. We can make use of data describing everything from amenity 
locations, building shapes to road networks, partial or incomplete. We 
are currently importing the TIGER dataset from the United States Census 
Bureau in order to map most of the US.

A similar task was recently completed for the city of Osnabrück, and an 
overview is available at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Frida. 
Our data is licensed under the Creative Commons Sharealike Attribution 
License, which makes the data freely available to all. Our source data 
has to be made available under a similar license, be in the public 
domain, or out of copyright. Such options are discussed at 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Legal_FAQ

Is there anything from Glasgow District Council that can be contributed 
towards the community, or do you know the right people to ask? Any help 
that you can provide would be greatly appreciated.

I look forward to hearing from you

Kyle






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