[OSM-talk] Proposed aeroway=apron

[Jon Burgess]

On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 09:07 +0800, Mike Collinson wrote:
> At 05:08 AM 29/01/2007, Jon Burgess wrote:
> >On Sun, 2007-01-28 at 14:18 +0000, Bruce Cowan wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 20:05 +0100, Marcus Bauer wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 2007-01-26 at 22:00 +0000, Ray Booysen wrote:
> > > > > Sounds like a great idea.  I've been mapping some runways, but have
> > > > > always left the aprons alone.
> > > >
> > > > The information about runways is somewhere publicaly available,
> > > > flightgear (open source flight sim) has every airport and airstrip
> > > > worldwide.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe asking the terragear.org guys how to do this?
> > >
> > > It was based on DAFIF, which has now been taken out of the Public Domain
> > > thanks to "security", more like insecurity.
> > >
> > > Flightgear's data is the same stuff used in X-Plane, and it is under the
> > > GPL. (meaning we can't use it, due to licence incompatibilities.)  It is
> > > available at http://www.x-plane.org/home/robinp/
> >
> >I have a copy of some older DAFIF data. Has anyone declared whether we
> >can add OSM data based on this?
> >
> >I wrote a perl script which converts the airport locations into an OSM
> >file and it looks like the runway data could be converted too.
> >
> >         Jon
> 
> Does your data have any specific license information attached that 
> you could forward?  While DAFIF data may now be withdrawn from 
> circulation, the license conditions under which you originally 
> received your copy would still apply to your copy (unless there is 
> some specific enforceable revokation clause). It would be great if we 
> could use it!!
> 

The contents of the copyright / license file is attached. I've also sent
an email  to OSM legal-talk. Hopefully the data will be deemed usable by
OSM since there is information about 10,000+ airports around the globe.

	Jon

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