There are nasties in the terms such as:
"provide NPWS, upon request, with copies of any reports or publications
resulting from the use of these data."
You cannot possibly know where OSM data will end up being used. So you
could never meet that one. Also, the next one is impossible to guarantee:
"not use the information to the detriment of individual species or
habitats, biodiversity or the environment in general."
That said, it seems that the National Parks and Wildlife Service are
being good guys and are trying to share their data openly with the
world. If you e-mail them and explain what you want to do (highlighting
how OSM is a community project and how we are interested in building a
better map of Ireland) and that you are only interested in boundaries
(so that they do not have to worry about you using their data to the
detriment of the environment somehow), you may be able to get the data
you want under terms compatible with OSM. We have approached other
official sources before and gotten very favorable replies.
Now, if they happen to have derived their boundaries from OSM data, all
is lost of course...
- Bartosz
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