[Talk-tr] HGK source
Paul Norman
penorman at mac.com
Mon Apr 29 09:00:04 UTC 2013
> From: H. Can Ünen [mailto:can.unen at gmail.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 1:27 AM
> To: 'Hakan Tandogan'; talk-tr at openstreetmap.org
> Subject: Re: [Talk-tr] HGK source
>
> Mr Ulgen is a member of United Nations Geographic Information Workgroup
> and right know is enquiring UNGEGN (UN Group of Experts on Geographic
> Names) about the status of the gazetteer. I think Paul contacted him at
> the beginning of this think regarding the use of HGK maps.
>
> Meanwhile Paul is deleting all the Turkish place names in OSM saying
> that HGK does not allow redistribution of its data. However the terms of
> HGK he found is regarding the purchased maps from HGK, not the gazetteer
> which Roman used to create the place names.
The terms on the gazetteer also do not grant the right to redistribute.
People have been looking for another data source. This is not what is
necessary. Even if we get permission for an alternative source of village
names, the HGK data still needs to be removed.
The only way to continue using the HGK data is to get permission from HGK.
Not the UNGEGN, not any organizations, only the HGK can grant permission to
redistribute their data.
There is a discussion about what can legally be saved over at legal-talk at .
No one has yet seen a way that the names from HGK can be preserved.. See
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2013-April/007534.html
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