Re: [OSM-talk-be] licence-agreement for using 3th party received information ???

2009-09-22 Thread Ben Laenen
Kristoff Bonne wrote: > Ben, > > > The ESRI-files I received as been converted to points and ways and have > been uploaded directly to the OSM-server in that form. About which municipality are we actually speaking btw? From which town did you get the data? > But, concidering storing the origi

Re: [OSM-talk-be] licence-agreement for using 3th party received information ???

2009-09-22 Thread Kristoff Bonne
Ben, The ESRI-files I received as been converted to points and ways and have been uploaded directly to the OSM-server in that form. But, concidering storing the original files in some central place, the issue is that I have a spoken agreement with the person who provided these files "for uploadi

Re: [OSM-talk-be] licence-agreement for using 3th party received information ???

2009-09-22 Thread Kristoff Bonne
Hi Dennis and all others. I just checked at it looks like you are right. To bad the license-system does not allow (e.g.) the user to select between a "commercial use barred" or "commercial use allowed" license per data-element they enter. After all, on everything that is upload is some metadata

[OSM-talk-be] 2e Antwerps OSM cafe

2009-09-22 Thread Luc Van den Troost
Dag allen, 3 maanden geleden hadden we ons eerste Antwerpse OSM-cafe. Een informele vergadering met - vooral in Antwerpen aktieve - mappers. Een van de conclusies van de bijeenkomst was toen dat we dat eens regelmatig moesten doen. Vandaar dat ik zou voorstellen op 25 oktober, vanaf 13 uur, op

Re: [OSM-talk-be] licence-agreement for using 3th party received information ???

2009-09-22 Thread Luc Van den Troost
If it is data that can be transformed in a GPX file it should be the most easy to upload it as a 'track' that is public? For other data that should be public available, isn't there some existing - osm - server that could host it? I have plenty of place on a server where only bandwidth can be a

Re: [OSM-talk-be] licence-agreement for using 3th party received information ???

2009-09-22 Thread Ben Laenen
Kristoff Bonne wrote: > Hi All, > > > After I managed to receive the official streetmap data from my > town-administration, I'm now quering the neighbouring towns for the same > thing. A little question: would it be possible to setup some server to host the files we get this way, so everyone i

Re: [OSM-talk-be] licence-agreement for using 3th party received information ???

2009-09-22 Thread Ben Laenen
Dennis Bollyn wrote: > Kristoff, > I don't think a license that forbids commercial use of the data is > compatible with openstreetmap. Doing so would in my opinion be counter to > the spirit. Best regards, Indeed, OSM data is CC-BY-SA, which allows distribution for any purpose, including commer

Re: [OSM-talk-be] licence-agreement for using 3th party received information ???

2009-09-22 Thread Dennis Bollyn
Kristoff, I don't think a license that forbids commercial use of the data is compatible with openstreetmap. Doing so would in my opinion be counter to the spirit. Best regards, Gyrbo - Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van : Kristoff Bonne [mailto:kristoff.bo...@skypro.be] Verzonden : dinsdag , s

[OSM-talk-be] licence-agreement for using 3th party received information ???

2009-09-22 Thread Kristoff Bonne
Hi All, After I managed to receive the official streetmap data from my town-administration, I'm now quering the neighbouring towns for the same thing. Now, IMHO, what would help to persuade the administrations is a bit more legal security on the use of this information. After all, this informat