Re: [Talk-ca] Building Footprint Upload to OSM

2018-03-08 Thread john whelan
>> In the past the local variants of the OGL Canada have varied widely >> and have in some cases included additional terms that have made them >> incompatible with the ODbL and in some instances non-open. For this >> reason we are not making a blanket statement on other such localised >> versions

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Footprint Upload to OSM

2018-03-07 Thread Matthew Darwin
Rob, One other thing to think about while others are discussing the licensing topic:  What is the quality of the buildings?  Has that been reviewed? * Are they in the right place? * Are they the right size? * Are they squared off (rectangles) * Are they aligned to each other and the road

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Footprint Upload to OSM

2018-03-07 Thread Stewart C. Russell
On 2018-03-07 09:08 PM, Steve Singer wrote: > > It is my understanding that the act of substitution is enough of a > change to require the LWG to need to look at it. That's correct, Steve. I clarified the Ottawa import page a little: > The OSMF Licensing Working Group determined in their

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Footprint Upload to OSM

2018-03-07 Thread Steve Singer
penstreetmap.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

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Footprint Upload to OSM

2018-03-07 Thread john whelan
nab...@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 experienc

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Footprint Upload to OSM

2018-03-07 Thread Rob Halko
: 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 St

Re: [Talk-ca] Building Footprint Upload to OSM

2018-03-06 Thread john whelan
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.

[Talk-ca] Building Footprint Upload to OSM

2018-03-06 Thread Rob Halko
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