On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 5:02 AM, Jean-Guilhem Cailton <j...@arkemie.com> wrote: > Le 21/05/2010 05:10, Eric Christensen a écrit : [ ... ] >> Has anyone contacted them about possible inclusion of their data into >> OSM? If not, I could try to work with them so we could include their >> data. It would be a great asset to have. [ ... ] > Quote from their "Data download agreement" > (http://www.appalachiantrail.org/GISagreement) > > "To access and use this data, we ask that you agree to the following > liability disclaimer and that you use proper citation (see metadata for > details) on any materials (digital or printed) in which this information > appears, and that you use the data appropriately." > > If you want to contact them, it might be good to check whether > source=... is a proper citation for them (along with attribution in the > wiki, maybe).
[I don't intend to direct my comments following at the previous posters in this thread. I just want to get a few things off my chest, and on to the list. ;-) ] Please no, not the source tag as attribution. That approach was first used with TIGER import, iirc. I've even recommended it for other imports, but I now consider that a mistake. Requiring attribution in the db adds unnecessary duplication to the db and risks removal by future editors. When in discussion with data publishers, I recommend, in order of preference: - asking them to relicense under PDDL to make their data available to the broadest range of projects, not just OSM. - asking them to contribute their data explicitly to OSM under the current ccbysa and future ODbL with no additional strings. - asking them to contribute their data explicitly to OSM under the current ccbysa and future ODbL and explicitly accept mention on the wiki as suitable attribution, for example: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution or http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue Please note that this single page does not scale and will have to eventually be split into sub-pages. When considering imports, please consider the background and experience or previous OSM imports and importers. There are OSM contributors who believe that imports are bad for OSM. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Import/Guidelines#Are_imports_bad.3F Do read, understand and follow the import guidelines. Consider joining the imports mailing list and finding somebody with previous successful import experience to help if you are new to OSM imports. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us