> From: H. Can Ünen [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 5:39 AM > Subject: RE: [Talk-tr] HGK source > > Paul, > > We couldn't find the terms of the gazetteer on the website. The terms > were about the printed maps that you "buy" from HGK. > > If you find the terms elsewhere, please share it with us. This is why we > are trying to get an answer from the UN about the use of the gazetteer. > And the gazetteer is for public use, as far as know, to achieve > standardization on place names.
http://www.hgk.msb.gov.tr/urunler/diger/gazetteer.html includes a link to a metadata file. This includes the statement that > User acknowledges that the Data and Related Materials contain > proprietary and confidential property of GCM. The Data and Related Materials > are owned by GCM and are protected by Turkish copyright laws and applicable > international copyright treaties and/or conventions It does not give permission to redistribute. > HGK is not a valid source, we know. But there has been an error on the > source. Source of the data is not HGK maps, but the gazetteer that is > provided by HGK. So we should change the source field of the data to > national gazetteer instead of deleting them. If it is a HGK map or a HGK gazetteer does not change the fact that permission from HGK or a license HGK is required, and we have neither. _______________________________________________ Talk-tr mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-tr
