Hi Bruno, > OpenStreetMaps imports CANVEC data. > CANVEC OpenData are provided by Natural Resources Canada. > All Natural Resources Canada data are subject to the Open Government > Licence – Canada. > <http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada> > Open Government Licence - Canada includes a restrictive attribution > term which is not compatible with our ODBL licence.
The ‘© OpenStreetMap contributors <http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/43.66316/-79.41078>’ link on the map has the following in the /Our contributors/ section: *Canada*: Contains data from GeoBase®, GeoGratis (© Department of Natural Resources Canada), CanVec (© Department of Natural Resources Canada), and StatCan (Geography Division, Statistics Canada). This would be referring to the explicit permission that NRCan/StatCan gave OSM some years ago. This is a form of attribution. Many other national contributors <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors> use an OGL licence, such as in the UK <https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/>. These contain very similar attribution terms as the OGL-CA licence. I noticed our Canada section of the (now vast) contributors' page was missing language that the OGL-CA licence requires, so I added it: ‘/Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada <http://open.canada.ca/en/open-government-licence-canada>./’ I may have put it in the wrong place; discuss. cheers, Stewart (who is totally _not_ getting into the /Just because you can, doesn't mean you should/ bit of the CanVec imports argument; nope, nosirree …)
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