Hi Sam, Yes, I'm sorry that the licence on our website isn't entirely clear. The copyright and legal disclaimer are generic for the website and not intended to apply to the GIS Digital Data Downloads, which can be used freely as long as the person who downloads the data from our website accepts the disclaimer here:
http://www.nanaimo.ca/EN/main/departments/Engineering-Public-Works/4489/Disclaimer.html We would love to see our data used as a base, or merged with user edits where appropriate, in OSM. I was intending to look into it myself at some point, and am glad that Jamie took the initiative. I should mention that although I was involved in the work that brought Nanaimo to prominence in Google Earth, our Engineering GIS department (specifically Tim Taylor and Dan Stevens) are the folks responsible for publishing the GIS data for download, with a little help from the webmaster. Although the IT department here (I work as Sr. Applications Analyst) is interested in open source and open data, it's really our rubber-hits-road departments that deserve the credit for collecting and maintaining the information that we help to publish. Once the roads are merged in, you may want to look at what other data could be useful. Other layers from our current downloads that may be useful include things like lakes/streams from the storm sewer data, sidewalks from the roads data, etc. We may also be able to look into providing things like non-residential building footprints, parks, etc for a one time load. We are looking at rationalizing our licensing (it's pretty muddled, some non-commercial, some other, all non-standard) but until recently there were no real options for database licensing. CC0 and PDDL (with attribution community norms) and ODbL all look interesting, but it sure would be nice if there was something similar to CC-BY available that didn't rely on copyright. Jason ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sam Vekemans Date: Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 6:51 AM Subject: OpenStreetMap using Nanaimo Roads Hi there, (please forward to Jason Birch) Im in touch with Jamie Popkin who is importing the SHP files which are available on the website, and says that Jason Birch is interested in OpenStreetMap, and interested in how to import the data. Unfortunatly, there was a miss-communication. The regular procedure for any bulk-import of data to openstreetmap requires 1st, as proper attribution and licencing is required before any importing. See this site. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Potential_Datasources Because OpenStreetMap.org is free from copyright, unlike other copyrighted maps, this data is collected from individuals on the ground, and from data thats 'public domain', or with direct concent from the origional source. The website link, does not say if this data is actually 'free to use as you like'. Because 'All rights reserved' means that data is in copyright. http://www.nanaimo.ca/EN/main/departments/Engineering-Public-Works/4489/DigitalData.html Although the City of Nanaimo tries to assure the accuracy of all information here, you should confirm all information. Copyright (c) 2008 City of Nanaimo. All rights reserved. Legal Disclaimer<http://www.nanaimo.ca/EN/main/want/view/legal-disclaimer.html>, Privacy Policy<http://www.nanaimo.ca/EN/main/want/view/privacy-policy.html> The easiest way around that is for someone from the City of Nanaimo to right back and say that it's OK to use this data for import into www.openstreetmap.org<http://www.openstreetmap.org> I attached the discussion below. Thanks In advance, Sam Vekemans Across Canada Trails (an OpenStreetMap contributor) Twitter: @Acrosscanada Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sam.vekemans
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