2009/10/7 Karl Grant <[email protected]> > I explained the openstreetmap principle to the engineer involved and she > saw > no problems with it, there's certainly no OSI licences involved. > > This might not be relevant, but is there any chance that the data was somehow 'derived' from OSi data. By that I mean might the county engineer have originally worked on OSi road centreline data to generate the road numbering scheme?
I haven't seen the issue of derived data come up here in Ireland before, but it is a VERY big issue over in the UK. OSGB has a stranglehold over huge swathes of Local Authority data all because it was digitised off or generated from OSGB mapping. I would imagine you would need to get the statement in writing from the engineer in question that the LA has full ownership and rights to the data (and furthermore is placing the data into the public domain / some other form that OSM can use) If OSi get wind of this they might start issuing strongly worded letters to data managers in LA's asserting ownership over all sorts of derived data, which would be unfortunate to say the least. In summary - I might be paranoid, but caution needed. Cheers, Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
