Hi, FYI, at the Hack Democracy Open Data conference, it was said that it is not necessary to have access to the restricted "P&B" database (which contains the full cadastre) to get access to the building shapes. The other URBIS databases seem to be good enough for that. In other words, you probably shouldn't request access to the "cadastre" (which records many things on terrain owners and has privacy issues), but really to the building shapes. The two are mostly unrelated. Of course you can always try to push both ways and see what happens.
I don't remember the specifics, but they also recommended to invoke two EU directives saying that the public should have access to this data when making such a request. On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 11:51, Nicolas Pettiaux <nico...@pettiaux.be> wrote: > Thanks for the info > > I am considering to recontact CIRB, who manages not to say own the > URBIS database of Brussels GIS info, including cadastre, ... (see > http://www.cirb.irisnet.be/departements/services/urbis for details) to > be allowed to use these data to help OSM. > > I know that we can have freely (aka gratis) URBIS, but the licence is > apparently not compatible with OSM. For any use of URBIS data, a > reference to URBIS and CIRB must be made. (see > http://www.cirb.irisnet.be/departements/services/urbis/acces-aux-donnees). > I want to discuss this and other points > > Mention obligatoire > > L'Utilisateur s'engage à indiquer le message suivant sur toute > information, programmes d'application ou produit divers qu'il est > autorisé à transmettre à un tiers, indépendamment de la forme du > support employée pour transmettre les données : > > « Réalisé avec Brussels UrbIS®© - Distribution & Copyright CIRB » > ou > « Verwezenlijkt door middel van Brussels UrbIS®© - Verdeling & > Copyright CIBG » > ou > « Realized by means of Brussels UrbIS®© - Distribution & Copyright CIRB » > > > Urbis could be used to > 1/ check that OSM includes all the streets of URBIS (and conversely to > help Urbis a little and show we are nice people ;-) If they have not > yet done the job themselves. > 2/ add to OSM some info from Urbis (eg: cadastre ... > > Suggestions welcom. > > Best regards, > > Nicolas > > -- > Nicolas Pettiaux, dr. sc > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
