If it would be useful, I'd be happy to try to get in touch with the GADM
people. Sending emails like that is a substantial part of my workday :-) I
would just need clarity around what, specifically, we'd like to ask for
this time.
Simone, the factual nature of geodata and its effect on copyright
Thanks for your answer, Paul.
Some further comments below.
GADM is still under a non-commercial license. I don't know who said they
were going to investigate, so you'd have to ask them, but I doubt
anything came of it. Independently of that, we got permission for some
datasets from GADM after
On 8/25/2015 3:55 AM, Simon Poole wrote:
- in dire circumstances and with a very large effort, as Paul has
pointed out, three and a half years ago I managed to get hold of the
responsible person with GADM and get explicit permission for a handful
of datasets that had been imported in violation
Simone, you are flogging a really dead horse (which has been discussed
many many many times before).
- the licence of the GADM dataset is incompatible with OSM
- in dire circumstances and with a very large effort, as Paul has
pointed out, three and a half years ago I managed to get hold of the
Am 25.08.2015 um 20:14 schrieb Tom Lee:
The main point is however that while we can pontificate as much as we
want that something might be legal in country X, Y or Z, it doesn't
really matter: for OSM to be useful in a country (and our goal is to be
useful in as many countries as possible,
On 8/21/2015 7:41 AM, Simone Aliprandi wrote:
Do you know if any news have come in these six years? Do you know if
OSM received a sort of direct permission to include those data in
the OSM database?
GADM is still under a non-commercial license. I don't know who said they
were going to
