[talk-ph] Typhoon Megi/Juan Humanitarian OSM Team activation request

[maning sambale]

Here's NAMRIA's response to my inquiry (I forgot to send to the list
ASAP because it was marked as spam):

Dear Sir,

Did you buy the maps from the NAMRIA Map Sales Office?

You can use the maps, but please acknowledge NAMRIA as the source and
mention the process you did on the maps (i.e scan,
georeference/georegister and trace)

For more info. please call us at 8105466.

Truly yours,

Alvin Laurio

My original message:
Hi, I would like to ask legal clarification on the use of the NAMRIA
1:50k topographic maps. If I manually scan the maps and distribute
them for free to colleagues on the internet and allow then to trace
features in the image, am I infringing NAMRIA's copyright over the
maps? Please provide clarification. The paper maps do not clearly
indicate restrictions of use of the map. Thank you very much.




On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are these maps kosher for tracing?
>
> The Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines (Republic Act No.
> 8293) has this to say:
>
> "Section 176.1. No copyright shall subsist in any work of the
> Government of the Philippines. However, prior approval of the
> government agency or office wherein the work is created shall be
> necessary for exploitation of such work for profit. [...]"
>
> The Wikipedia community has taken this to mean that government works
> are still copyrighted because of the non-commercial clause.
>
> But, additionally, copyright in the Philippines generally persist for
> the author's life + 50 years or 50 years after publication/making
> depending on the work. So maps published in the 1950s *might* be OK.
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:33 PM, maning sambale
> <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Bunny,
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 19, 2010 at 12:26 PM, Leonard Soriano
>> <banito_pinoy at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Maning rectified. However naka Transverse Mercator/Luzon Datum. I can re-project kung kinakailangan pero madami dami rin yun.
>>
>> If possible please re-project to lat/lon wgs84 (EPSG:4326).  Upload it
>> somewhere we can fetch the data.
>>
>>> CI produced a dataset ng rivers based on the Namria 125.000k. Pero They also produced a Philippine shoreline that includes main rivers (eg. Cagayan River) based on 1:50k topo maps.  Extracting the polylines of the rivers might is easy and can be used temporarily while the Landsat river system is on the way being digitized.
>> The CI dataset requires a whole lot of data request processing (data
>> holders are a combination of NGO, and national agencies, which
>> requires everyone's approval).
>>
>>> May specific province ba pagsisimulan ng focus ng mapping? or lahat basta na apektuhan ng bagyo?
>> I'm still collating information on the heavily affected areas.  Please
>> help in sorting the information.
>> NDCC has soem good reports on provincial site reports:
>> http://www.ndcc.gov.ph/
>>
>> Make sure to update the wiki:
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Philippines_Tropical_Storm_2010
>>
>>> --bunny
>>>
>>> --- On Mon, 18/10/10, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From: maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
>>>> Subject: [talk-ph] Typhoon Megi/Juan Humanitarian OSM Team activation request
>>>> To: "osm-ph" <talk-ph at openstreetmap.org>, "osm-talk" <talk at openstreetmap.org>
>>>> Received: Monday, 18 October, 2010, 10:55 AM
>>>> Dear everyone,
>>>>
>>>> I created an activation request for mapping affected areas
>>>> Typhoon
>>>> Megi/Juan in the Philippines.  At the moment, there
>>>> are no high-res
>>>> available in the area.  What we can for now is to map
>>>> large rivers
>>>> visible in Landsat which is likely to be flooded.
>>>>
>>>> As the event progresses, we will evaluate specific areas
>>>> needing
>>>> high-res imagery.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance for supporting the initiative.
>>>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Humanitarian_OSM_Team/philippines_juan
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> cheers,
>>>> maning
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>> maning
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