But recently I noted that the CANVEC tags are being removed. Two people in the talk-ca list mentioned recently they had done so.
Cheerio John On 19 December 2011 15:38, Frank Steggink <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19-12-2011 20:38, john whelan wrote: > >> Yes because it is the individual contributor who has to accept the OSM's >> new licensing terms, the data was not imported directly from CANVEC into >> OSM. >> >> As a Canadian tax payer I'm not quite certain I like the idea of OSM >> having the power to re-license Government data but that is a separate issue. >> >> John, > > Whether you like it or not, NRCan explicitly allows it, as long as they > are attributed as the source: > > /All distributed data should be accessed and used relatively to the > GeoGratis Unrestricted Use Licence Agreement <http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/ > **geogratis/en/licence.jsp<http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/licence.jsp>>. > With this licence, users are granted a non-exclusive, fully paid, > royalty-free right and licence to exercise all intellectual property rights > in the data. This includes the right to use, incorporate, sublicense (with > further right of sublicensing), modify, improve, further develop, and > distribute the data; and to manufacture and/or distribute Derivative > Products. The Licensee shall identify the source of the Data, in the > following manner, where any of the Data are redistributed, or contained > within Derivative Products: "© Department of Natural Resources Canada. All > rights reserved." > / > See: > http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/**geogratis/en/index.html<http://geogratis.cgdi.gc.ca/geogratis/en/index.html> > > Furthermore, NRCan is even spending your tax dollars to facilitate > incorporating their data into OSM. > > Personally, as a former Canadian tax payer I can say that what NRCan does > is one of the best ways of my tax dollars being spent :) It's too bad that > the national mapping agency which is currently being funded by my tax euros > takes a way less proactive stance towards open data. At least by decree of > our Ministry of Economy, Agriculture and Innovation, a lot of geospatial > and other data will be open in a few weeks :) > > Every time when your government is doing something you don't like, are you > going to share that with the world as well? > > Frank > > ______________________________**_________________ > Talk-ca mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.**org/listinfo/talk-ca<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca> >
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