Legal, On behalf of OpenStreetMap I asked a large city council (Durban, South Africa) for permission use their online mapping website to find the official names for roads and features we are missing. I also asked for permission (expecting to be denied) to use the shapefiles on their public FTP site. http://citymaps.durban.gov.za/
Their reply from the head of their corporate GIS department: "You may use any of our data for your project. Note that the online map is very up-to-date (seldom more than 1 to 2 weeks old), whereas the FTP site is only updated infrequently." AFAIK, they own all their own GIS data, unlike councils in the UK. Advice... Should I; thank them and go ahead and plan a full import of their data? (yay) Or Should I follow-up with a few question before proceeding? Licence, attribution, do-you-really-mean-what-you-just-said... etc etc. What questions? / Grant _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
