[OSM-talk-ie] Average speed camera zones

[Donie Kelly]

Does this data not fall under fair use they being a public body? How can they copyright it?  I'm not an expert on copyright law btw :)

Can this information be obtained under the freedom of information act and used for whatever?

Donie


On 1 Oct 2013, at 17:28, Daniel Cussen <dan at post.com> wrote:

> There is copyright info here:
> 
> http://www.garda.ie/Controller.aspx?Page=1442&Lang=1
> 
> You might need to ask for permission. Anyone want to ring the Gardai
> press office!
> 
> On 01/10/2013, Daniel Cussen <dan at post.com> wrote:
>> The data is hosted on the Gardai website. I am not sure on copyright
>> information
>> 
>> The zones can be viewed here:
>> http://www.garda.ie/gosafe.htm
>> 
>> More info on the actual database, and how to extract it etc is here:
>> https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056903045
>> 
>> along with the fixed camera positions.
>> 
>> Dan
>> 
>> On 01/10/2013, Rory McCann <rory at technomancy.org> wrote:
>>> On 30/09/13 21:01, Daniel Cussen wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I did some work in the past moving the Gardai mobile speed camera
>>>> database over to a format for Garmin. Could someone look at possibly
>>>> importing the garda data into openstreetmap? I don't know if it would
>>>> be possible.
>>>> 
>>>> The database does not include the speed limits, just a start and end
>>>> location. I don't know what tags should be used and how useful the
>>>> results would be on an off the shelf sat Nav.
>>>> 
>>>> There is also a seperate file with fixed speed camera locations (there
>>>> are very few) which could be a related project.
>>>> 
>>>> Ideas/thoughts?
>>> 
>>> Hiya Dan.
>>> 
>>> Good idea. Where did you get the data? One of the biggest problems with
>>> importing data into OSM is that a lot of map data is copyrighted in a
>>> way that doesn't allow import into OSM.
>>> 
>>> Rory
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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