[OSM-talk] Spanish GeoData for OSM?

Skywave rjtehpwn at gmail.com
Wed Apr 16 21:55:31 BST 2008


Any news?

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Iván Sánchez Ortega
<ivansanchez at escomposlinux.org> wrote:
> <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>
>
>  Un ordenador no es un televisor ni un microondas, es una herramienta
>  compleja.
>
>
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