Good news: we can use the shapefiles of wetland.org (1)! :D
Roman (1) http://ramsar.wetlands.org/GISMaps/DownloadGISdatasets/tabid/769/language/en-US/Default.aspx ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "PECK Dwight" <p...@ramsar.org> To: "Roman Neumüller" <em...@katpatuka.org> Cc: "stephan.fl...@wetlands.org" <stephan.fl...@wetlands.org> Subject: RE: RE: shapefile usage of ramsar sites for openstreetmap.org Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:27:06 +0300 Greetings, many thanks for your message. As far as we are concerned, we consider all of the Ramsar site data and products, including those that Wetlands International prepares for us, to be in the public domain. We only ask that the use of any data should be dated so that users can judge the currency and accuracy. Best regards, Dwight Peck. ********** Dwight Peck Communications Officer Ramsar Convention on Wetlands Gland, Switzerland p...@ramsar.org, www.ramsar.org -----Original Message----- From: Roman Neumüller [mailto:em...@katpatuka.org] Sent: 22 September 2009 10:15 To: Ramsar Mailbox Subject: Fwd: RE: shapefile usage of ramsar sites for openstreetmap.org Hello, I contacted Stephan Flink from wetlands.org to ask if openstreetmap.org could make use of their shapefiles of Ramsar sites under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. He adviced me to ask the Ramsar Secretariat to confirm that there are no restriction to use this data (see correspondence below). Please let me know if there are any legal restrictions in using the data. Greetings Roman Neumüller ------- Forwarded message ------- From: "Flink, Stephan" <stephan.fl...@wetlands.org> To: "Roman Neumüller" <em...@katpatuka.org> Cc: Subject: RE: shapefile usage for openstreetmap.org Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:52:33 +0300 Dear Roman, I'm not aware of any legal restrictions to display the shapefiles in OSM other than the following ToU (http://ramsar.wetlands.org/Home/tabid/719/ctl/Terms/Default.aspx). As Wetlands International is the caretaker of all Ramsar Site information and the ownership of the data lies with the Ramsar Secretariat in Switzerland (ram...@ramsar.org<mailto:ram...@ramsar.org>), I suggest contacting the Secretariat to ensure that this is indeed the case. Best wishes, Stephan Flink -----Original Message----- From: Roman Neumüller [mailto:em...@katpatuka.org] Sent: vrijdag 18 september 2009 16:14 To: Flink, Stephan Subject: RFI: shapefile usage for openstreetmap.org Hello Stephan, I see that I can download shapefiles of Ramsar sites from wetlands.org. Are there any legal restrictions for conversion and usage of these shapefiles under the wiki map project http://openstreetmap.org (OSM)? OSM's content is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license... Greetings Roman Neumüller
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