Probably one of the most complex topics that we as a community have to deal with is licenses, in the past, it was mainly watching out for people using proprietary sources. That had a simple yes or no outcome.
Now that the Irish government is opening data under the ODbL, with different clauses, that becomes harder because some allow reuse and others don't, although the trend is towards reuse. Available at https://data.gov.ie/ An interesting question came from the community is how do we know when open data from the government has been used. The only answer is if the mapper cited their source, which of course we can check for, but it would really be useful to know the communities experience at a personal level, with using the data to get a better idea its impact in day to day mapping, or not. So are you aware of the site, have you used it to fill in missing information on OSM? Did you cite an Irish gov source? Would you be interested in knowing more about this data? it's hard to do a poll by email, so I'll set up one up on Facebook and Twitter. But reply here if you have a long form reply or prefer not to use social media. As I said this is a complex topic, which I think will have evolving solutions as our knowledge and understanding improves. To be honest I presume this will be a learning process for most of us. It certainly will be for me. However, by tackling this topic it will be easier to advocate government departments to open more data by showing what can be done with what is available now. Allowing us to create better maps. Tadeusz Cantwell _______________________________________________ Talk-ie mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ie
