[talk-ph] Phil. Barangay Shapefile (Free) Download in Diva GIS site

[maning sambale]

On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Noli Sicad <nsicad at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maning,
>
> Probably, OSM Phil can write to GADM.org if it can be used for OSM
> project. As I understood, OSM project is "not-commercial project" nor
> "commercial product".

You can use OSM data both for commercial and non-commercial
enterprise.  Provided you adopt the same license when distributing
your "product".  The commercial clause is  important for wider
adoption of the data for businesses.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/

Which brings me to one question, anybody here using OSM Philippine
data for commercial purpose?  We would love to hear your thoughts.

> Thanks in pointing this out.
>
> Noli
>
>
> On 1/1/10, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Noli,
>>
>> Thanks for the link.  This is very useful.  Unfortunately, it does not
>> fit wih OSM's license:
>> "This dataset is freely available for academic and other
>> non-commercial use. Redistribution, or commercial use, is not allowed
>> without prior permission.
>>
>> http://www.gadm.org/"
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Noli Sicad <nsicad at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Happy New Year!
>>>
>>> I just subscribe.
>>>
>>> I have been searching for barangay level shapefile for the Philippines
>>> for a while now. I am really getting frustrate that we don't have a
>>> municipal and barangay level shapefiles available for free download. I
>>> googled "OSM Philippines barangay shapefile", no entry as well in
>>> talk-ph archive.
>>>
>>> Yesterday, I was searching for New Zealand shapefile as well, same
>>> situation.  You can't  find one using google. I went to cloudmate and
>>> download the shapefile for a start, coastline only.
>>>
>>> I thought of going to some open source GIS and see if there are some
>>> data for shapefile for New Zealand. I know that there is free
>>> shapefile for New Zealand. I finally find the New Zealand in Diva GIS
>>> site and interesting enough, Philippines is included. I thought for a
>>> while it must be a provincial level. I was suprised that the zip file
>>> includes, provincial, municipal and barangay level site file.
>>>
>>> Anyway, you can download in
>>>
>>> http://www.diva-gis.org/Data
>>>
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>> Country level
>>>
>>> Download "country level data" <-----------Click here.
>>>
>>> Download data by country
>>>
>>> Select and download free geographic (GIS) data for any country in the
>>> world
>>>
>>> Country
>>> Philippines
>>>
>>> Subject
>>> Adminstrative Areas.
>>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~`
>>>
>>> Maning, probably you can use this one for the your GARMIN GPS map, etc.
>>>
>>> Thanks, Noli
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> cheers,
>> maning
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