[OSM-talk] Spanish GeoData for OSM?

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

<quote who="Patrick Weber">
> Just read the following blog post:
> http://spanring.eu/blog/2008/04/13/difusion-publica-de-la-informacion-geografica/
>
> Basically, following on from the INSPIRE initiative

, and pressure from OSM, and pressure from osgeo, and pressure from gvsig,
and pressure from private companies...

> , the Spanish Ministry of Public Works (Ministerio de Fomento) issued a
> statement regarding the Spanish geodata policy. Specifically, they state
> according to the document that:
[...]
> As far as my Spanish goes, this means free access to geodata given that
> it is for non commercial use and has attribution.
> If this gives access to a great deal of Spanish geodata, how would those
> conditions pan out with the OSM license?

The non-commercial clauses are a bit of a headache, so direct import of
the data into OSM is out of the way, by now.

However, there are no details on derivative works. So a lawyer will be
visiting them this wednesday, to sort that out. I'm quite positive about
using their WMS services to build OSM on top of them.

(BTW: I announced just this on talk-legal a few days ago)


Cheers,
-- 
Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>

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