not only that but sometimes they add things that make it more or less compatible(previously bc and their unique privacy or something else)
On Jan 28, 2018 2:14 PM, "OSM Volunteer stevea" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Jan 28, 2018, at 10:50 AM, Jonathan Brown <[email protected]> wrote: > > If we have a description of the scope of the work involved in updating > the BC2020 OD tables, I don’t mind trying to find some senior students who > could be trained to take on this task for locations in Ontario. It would be > a very small start, of course. Also, can someone explain to me the > licensing issue? How do datasets released under the open government license > not meet the legal requirements of the OSM license? > > Then, On Jan 28, 2018, at 10:57 AM, James <[email protected]> wrote: > > license is federal, cities must modify it to apply to municipal, thus > creating new license > > SO, please ladies and gentleman, "figure out" what your licensing status > is, and document it. First in https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/ > Contributors#Canadian_Municipalities where it is now said these entries > are incorrect (except for Ottawa). Second in https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/ > WikiProject_Canada/Building_Canada_2020/building_OD_tables, which now > refers back to that page in all the "green" cells. > > This is what OSM (partly) is: documenting in a wiki (for all to see and > share in the knowledge of) the status of licensing, a link to an Import > Plan, helpful steps to take when you get stuck and don't know what to do, a > place to propose streamlined or improved methodology, a way to capture the > status of a project (whether with or without Task Manager links) perhaps > using red/yellow/green color-coded cells, or cells that have "80% done" in > them, as appropriate, et cetera. > > The "scope of the work involved in updating the BC2020 OD tables" is not > hard, it is this: > > 1) View OD_tables wiki (the second link above) > 2) Click the Log In link (upper right) and enter your OSM wiki > credentials (different than your OSM credentials) > 3) Click the Edit Source link (ditto), I don't recommend the > usually-more-friendly-user-interface Edit link, as you are editing TABLES > here, and (in my opinion) our wiki's raw (lightweight, relatively easy) > markup language is the only sane choice here to edit table data entries > 4) Edit the table data for each cell which is now green (yes), but which > should be red (no) or perhaps something in the middle, yellow (partial). > There are 11 colored cells now, 7 are green, 4 are yellow. It seems 1 > should be green (Ottawa) and therefore left alone, but the other ten should > be changed to red or yellow. So, GO! > > OTHERS reading this list (not me!) must properly decide what these > colors/statuses are, as I'm merely some guy in the USA who wants to see the > project go forward, but the licenses, and importantly, their statuses as > communicated to the rest of OSM via the Contributors page and the > WikiProject BC2020 OD tables page are now confused/outdated/wrong and so > these must be updated so they are correct for 2018, now and going forward. > > > I offer to "change from green to red" wiki table status for all cities > (except Ottawa), although I'd also like to see Contributors be updated > (with only Ottawa) as I suggest. Teamwork, anybody? Simply to keep our > project-wide communication current? It's neither difficult nor > time-consuming and shares present status with "the rest of us." > > And my offer still stands, I just have no clue what is going on with these > licenses. Does anybody here? Please, let's not kick this into "well, it's > sorta lost in the LWG..." unless that is REALLY true. It seems this is a > Canadian initiative to move forward with these and I'm left with little to > do from here to push it forward any differently than I have been. > > Thank you, > SteveA > California
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