[OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: [ gpsdrive ] shoreline Info

[Joerg Ostertag (OSM Munich/Germany)]

Can we update to the new Version of the gshhs Data, or it the GPL licence a 
problem if we combine it in the pdf-atlas output?


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> also in  scripts/osm/osm-pdf-atlas/create.sh  it tries to fetch
> wget ..
> http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/data/gshhs/version1.2/$gshhs.b.gz
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> that link is dead, the new one is
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> http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/data/gshhs/oldversions/gshhs_h.b.gz
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> there is a newer coastline available:
>  http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/data/gshhs/version1.5/
> but versions 1.3 and newer are GPL, which OSM may not like.

Good you saw this. Since it's probably a derived work it's better only
 someone who knows about the license would do this change.
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Jörg (Germany, Munich)

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