OK, thanks for those responses. It did sound a bit too good to be true. Cheers.
Tony. On 12 Mar 2011 20:54, <[email protected]> wrote: Does anybody know if it's permissible to use map data downloaded from the National Parks and Wildlife Service site in OSM? The data relates to boundaries of national parks, nature reserves, etc., and can be downloaded in various file formats from http://www.designatednatureareas.ie/mapviewer/ . Their data-use policy page at http://www.npws.ie/en/DataPolicy/ says that it's "freely available", but IANAL, so hopefully somebody here can provide clarification. From: Karl Grant <[email protected]> AFAIK its still copyrighted even though its free , so I don't think you can use it on something that effectively makes it public domain . but some one more knowledgable should be along shortly :) From: Bartosz Fabianowski <[email protected]> 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 OSI data, all is lost of course... From: Richard Cantwell <[email protected]> Unfortunately the data is derived from OSi sources. I had a brief chat with the OPW about this dataset in 2009. The OPW is aware of OSM but their data license, as currently formulated, is very limiting and does not allow us to import their data _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
