[Talk-il] Using free gov data in OSM

[Moshe Sayag]

Continued here:
http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=293538


On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:58 AM, yrtimiD <yrtimid at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can I propose to move this discussion to the forum, as, IMHO, more people
> monitor it and they will be very interested in such news.
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Moshe Sayag <msayag at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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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