> From: Paul Norman [mailto:penor...@mac.com] > Sent: Tuesday, April 16, 2013 3:08 PM > Subject: [Talk-tr] HGK source > > In early April I noticed a number of place=village created by Muthukumar > (e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/2250559178) with > source=HGK. > > At the time I wondered if they might be an import from a source that I > didn't recognize and contacted the user asking them what the source was, > but I haven't gotten a reply in the 10 days since I messaged them, so > I'm sending the question to a wider audience. Does anyone know what > source=HGK is?
Some checks revealed a potentially wider problem. source=HGK appears to refer to Harita Genel Komutanlığı which is the official Turkish mapping agency. They apparently have no forms of open data or other license which we could use the data. My best guess is the original source of the data is http://www.hgk.msb.gov.tr/urunler/diger/gazetteer.html. The metadata has terms and conditions which would prevent their use in OSM. I looked at their webpage and couldn't find anything that would allow the use of their data in OSM. http://www.hgk.msb.gov.tr/yan_menu/sorular.asp#2 may be relevant and based on the Bing translation it might be allowing personal use, but not reproductions. Given the above, it looks like we're not allowed to use their data in OSM and it must be redacted (removed). I propose to start doing so later this week, after contacting katpatuka, Muthukumar, and Muruganantham, the three users who have created the most source=HGK objects. There a total of 31k objects, of which 28k are version 1. Most are by katpatuka and most are place=* nodes. _______________________________________________ Talk-tr mailing list Talk-tr@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-tr
