[Talk-il] Using free gov data in OSM

[Moshe Sayag]

The license of Tel-Aviv state specifically that you are free to process the
data:
‫הנך חופשי לבצע‬

   - ‫להעתיק, לפרסם, להפיץ ולשדר את המידע.‬
   - ‫להכשיר ולעבד את המידע.‬
   - ‫לנצל את המידע לכל מטרה חוקית בהתאם לדין.‬

The FAQ in the gov site answers that no special permission is required:
 אני רוצה לפרסם מידע שמצאתי באתר, האם צריך אישור מיוחד?
המידע פתוח לשימוש חופשי ולא נדרש כל אישור מיוחד.
 כיצד ניתן להשתמש במידע שמופיע באתר?
המידע הינו חופשי וניתן להשתמש בו בכל דרך, בכפוף לתנאי השימוש.
 http://data.gov.il/faq

The only issue I see, with both sources, is the requirement to give credit,
which is reasonable, but I don't know how it can be done in OSM

Moshe


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir at cohens.org.il>wrote:

> 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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