Thanks for your help John,
Is this the license we should be looking at adopting:
https://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada?
Rob
From: john whelan [mailto:jwhelan0...@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2018 9:22 PM
To: Rob Halko <rob.ha...@durham.ca>
Cc: impo...@openstreetmap.org; talk-ca@openstreetmap.org; Jonathan Brown
<jonab...@gmail.com>; Alasia, Alessandro (STATCAN) <alessandro.ala...@canada.ca>
Subject: Re: [Talk-ca] Building Footprint Upload to OSM
I was involved in getting the Ottawa Open Data building outlines into OSM
working with Stats Canada. Based on that experience you need to go through
some steps..
Step one concerns the license. Regional Municipality of Durham open data
license almost certainly has not been approved by the LWG. The choices are
formally adopt the Treasury Board license for Open Data as Ottawa has done or
ask Alessandro nicely about whether Stats Can can make it available through the
TB open data portal. The third choice would be submit it to the LWG. The
backlog is substantial and I'd expect at least at year, possibly two before
gaining approval if they thought it was perfect.
The data can also be formally given to OpenStreetMap, ie supplied but not under
your Open data license. I understand Vancouver followed this route.
One the license is sorted out then there is a further process to follow and
that would be tight for March 29th.
I suggest sorting out the license first.
Cheerio John
On 6 March 2018 at 11:05, Rob Halko
<rob.ha...@durham.ca<mailto:rob.ha...@durham.ca>> wrote:
Good morning,
The Region of Durham has recently purchased Building Footprints data for the
entire Region, and it is available as Open Data:
http://opendata.durham.ca/datasets/building-footprints
We would like to import these to Open Street Map to engage the community and
help improve the overall map. We are supporters of OSM and wish to regularly
partner in improving the data.
In particular, we are hosting a mapathon on March 29, which asks for student
input to add attributes to the buildings based on OSM guidelines for the
Building Canada 2020 project:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020#The_data_that_could_be_mapped
We have read your Import guidelines and are here to express our interest in
contributing our building data. The intention is not to overwrite those
buildings that the community has built, but bridge the gap to include the rest
of the 200,000+ buildings in Durham (largely residential), which are missing
from OSM.
Please let us know how we can contribute this valuable data on behalf of the
community.
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