[Talk-il] Using free gov data in OSM

[Tzafrir Cohen]

On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:17:34AM +0200, Moshe Sayag wrote:
> Little by little, some governmental and municipal data in Israel is
> released for use under open licenses.
> 
> Some of this data has geographic value that can be embed in OSM.
> 
> Is there any active effort in that direction?
> Does anyone see any reason why not to do it?
> 
> sources:
> http://data.gov.il
> http://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/OnlineServices/DataTLV/Pages/Data%20Tel-Aviv.aspx

That specific data set coms with a license:
http://www.tel-aviv.gov.il/OnlineServices/DataTLV/Documents/%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9F%20%D7%9C%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%A9%20%D7%91%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%93%D7%A2%20-%20%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%99%D7%AA%20%D7%AA%D7%9C-%D7%90%D7%91%D7%99%D7%91-%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%95.pdf
IANAL, but from what I undrstand, the licnse dos not grant you th right
to change the information, which may man that drivative work is not
allowed. If that is the case, it is surely incompatible with OSM's
license. It also has a clause which is somewhat close to requiring that
you do no evil.

Maybe they'll relicense it if asked nicely.

data.gov.il has some othere interesting datasets:
http://data.gov.il/dataset/434 - th public transport data.
I'm not exactly sure what its license is.

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