Good day Arun, The first item in the Wiki anwsers this: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Trees#Licence
The data is licensed under the Open Data License Version 2.0 (Ottawa ODL 2.0) which has been approved by the DWG: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KyTLbQWSmo1rdoppqlFGTB3by-qVAzjLo_LPml3Ri9Y/edit The original data is under the City of Ottawa open Data portal: http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/tree-inventory-street-trees/resource/ca318149-ba23-44dd-9355-a1ee62fe157a Does this answer your questions Arun? *~~~~~~* *Denis Carriere* *GIS Software & Systems Specialist* On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 3:29 PM, Arun Ganesh <[email protected]> wrote: > Answering a few questions should help: > - Who funded the data collection? > - Who organised/coordinated the data collection? > > One of them would be the best person to know the current license of the > data and it would be easy to decide if it can be imported. > > Its quite possible nobody thought of it and it is unlicensed, in which > case document in as much detail how the data was sourced and a public > statement of an OSM compatible license. If there is nobody to challenge > this claim among the data creators, it should be safe to use the data. > > Arun > > > > On Thu, Jul 6, 2017 at 11:35 PM, john whelan <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Not quite what I'm after. The City of Ottawa amended its Open Data >> license to be in line with the Canadian Treasury Board license and both >> licenses have been reviewed by the OSM legal working group and deemed >> acceptable. I think there is a UK Open Data license which is also >> acceptable. So we have accepted some municipal data in the past. >> >> Many Open Data licenses are not acceptable. Whilst I accept only the >> legal working group can deem what is acceptable what I'm seeing in Africa >> specifically in Ghana at the moment are people who working in teams have >> collected data for other uses wanting to add this to OSM. >> >> So what are the hoops they have to go through? >> >> I've also come across people who say that this data was given to them so >> obviously it should meet the license requirements. >> >> What I'm after is somewhere that clarifies to them the steps to take. >> Who is an acceptable / authoritative person to say this data was given? >> etc. >> >> Thanks John >> >> On 6 July 2017 at 13:54, Donal Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Here are a couple of links: >>> >>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/License/Use_Cases >>> http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Contributor_Terms >>> https://opendatacommons.org/ >>> >>> Donal >>> >>> On 6 Jul 2017 17:07, "john whelan" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> I'm seeing some interest in different levels of government in Africa >>>> and others in enriching OSM with their data. >>>> >>>> Is there somewhere that discusses things like Open Data licenses etc. >>>> >>>> Thanks John >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> HOT mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >>>> >>>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> HOT mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > HOT mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > >
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