[Talk-transit] Naptan import

[Christoph Böhme]

osm at edwardbetts.com schrieb:

> Christoph Böhme <christoph at b3e.net> wrote:
> > Many places have wikipedia entries (even villages). If we can manage
> > to automatically look the entries up and extract the relevant
> > information (population size) from the info box we could probably
> > classify a lot of places.
> 
> I'm afraid we can't use population data, it is under Crown Copyright.

I don't know much about the licencing but I find it slightly odd that
Wikipedia can distribute its contents under a CC-BY-SA licene when it
contains information that is under a more restrictive licence. How am I
supposed to know that population numbers are not covered by the
CC-BY-SA licence?

I don't want to start a huge discussion here about the legal issues of
using the population numbers. I'm just curious to learn why Crown
Copyrighted data can be in Wikipedia.

Christoph



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