[OSM-talk] Spanish official land register (Catastro) changes its license

[jynus]

2011/4/7 Steve Doerr <doerr.stephen at gmail.com>:
> On 07/04/2011 15:21, jynus wrote:
> Is the vector data available in Potlatch? Does it show street-names?

I suppose not. Also, currently this is very WIP. According to official
documents only Spanish citizens will be able to download or
redistribute the original shapefiles, one by one, for each of the >
3000 municipalities. Once converted, altered or translated in order to
create a derivative work, it may be used freely with a wold-wide
license almost without restrictions. I think they feared their website
collapsed or something.

Yes,  it includes street names among many other things. I do not know
how are the files they are releasing, but Catastro is the most
accurate source in the country (I suppose centimeter-accurate, as all
architectural works are projected using it as a base, and it showed
even the inner structure of the buildings). It will not mean the end
of mapping in Spain, as some info (road information, natural
resources, locality names, business info) is handled by different
national or local agencies.

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Jynus