[OSM-talk] Attribution of CORINE and Urban Atlas imports

Ciprian Talaba cipriantalaba at gmail.com
Wed Apr 6 22:07:17 BST 2011


Hi Frederik,

I updated the source tag in the Wiki for CLC import in Romania
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue. I am not sure if this
is enough or will EEA require a complete change in the database?

Thanks,
Ciprian

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   at a conference today I met someone who works for EEA in Copenhagen and
> we had a chat about EEA data in OSM. A very friendly chat, I must add, he
> wasn't actually complaining about anything, but he did mention a few
> oddities he found when studying how OSM was using CORINE (and Urban Atlas)
> data.
>
> I'm listing them here in the hope that maybe some of them can be rectified,
> or avoided in future CORINE imports (hello Dermot!)
>
> a) Corine Land Cover
>
> Generally, you can obtain CORINE data from national bodies or from the EEA
> directly. The data sets may be minimally different, and may be licensed
> differently.
>
> The French import states as their source: "Union européenne - SOeS, CORINE
> Land Cover, 2006.", where SoeS stands for "le service de l'Observation et
> des Statistiques (SOeS) du Commissariat général au développement durable
> (CGDD)". This is a French national organisation.
>
> The Romanian import took their data directly from the EEA (as documented on
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CLC_RO_Permission), but in their source
> tags they credit SOeS like the French did which is not correct. It would be
> great if this could be fixed, or at least rectified on the wiki page.
>
> There's also a Spanish, Estonian, and Hungarian CORINE import of which I
> haven't fully investigated the tags. For Hungary,
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalog mentions both the
> national office and the EEA as their source which is porbably not correct
> either.
>
> b) Urban Atlas
>
> There's a lot of Urban Atlas-sourced material in OSM was well, most of it
> in Poland or Slovakia. Some of it is tagged only with "source=urban atlas"
> but there's no mention of the EEA. Much like ourselves, the EEA would prefer
> to be credited properly if their data is used.
>
> As I said, it's not that EEA are complaining (and they don't have any
> set-in-stone attribution rules anyway, only that you have to attribute) but
> we should certainly aim to do it right!
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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