[Talk-ca] Municipal data source attribution
What is the current procedure for meeting the attribution requirement of a municipal data-source released under the 'Open Government Licence ? Do I just need to add the source to the list at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors ? I would like to take some of the data for Oakville released http://oakville.ca/data/catalogue.html , licensed under http://oakville.ca/data/open_data_licence.html. My understanding is that this is the Canadian OGL only v2.0 changed to list 'Town of Oakville' as the copyright holder instead of the crown. I am NOT planning an import, at this time, or any automated conversion of the shapefiles to OSM files. I am planning on using the data files as a source to pick up some missing names of things (parks , some trails etc). Steve ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Municipal data source attribution
On 11/9/2014 8:48 AM, Steve Singer wrote: What is the current procedure for meeting the attribution requirement of a municipal data-source released under the 'Open Government Licence ? Unfortunately each Open Government License is different, and when I've asked about license compatibility I've received different answers from different licensors, so you'll have to ask the municipality about ODbL compatibility. I suggest asking about CC BY compatibility at the same time. I have gotten affirmative answers from the Federal government and BC. I have gotten a negative answer from the City of Vancouver. I've got queries out with some other BC cities, but nothing final from them. ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
Re: [Talk-ca] Municipal data source attribution
On Sun, Nov 9, 2014 at 11:48 AM, Steve Singer st...@ssinger.info wrote: What is the current procedure for meeting the attribution requirement of a municipal data-source released under the 'Open Government Licence ? I've taken the cautious approach, in past, and asked for explicit permission from the publishers. There are a couple of reasons for this. - most publishers are new to Open Data - OGL is new and only just barely worse than the garbage that preceded it. - The attribution mechanism used in OpenStreetMap (entry on imports wiki pages) might surprise some publishers - the CT requirement to clear future rights for future license changes makes explicit informed permission really valuable. best regards, Richard ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
