[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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