I am worried there might be some copyright issues The sites within the UK will probably have been mapped using the British Ordnance Survey, and therefore should have copyright restrictions.
A quick internet search shows that data is available to download in the UK, but with some conditions(?). http://www.jncc.gov.uk/ProtectedSites/SACselection/gis_data/terms_conditions.asp I think the status of the data needs to be very carefully checked. Jason user:jamicu 2009/9/22 Roman Neumüller <[email protected]> > Good news: we can use the shapefiles of wetland.org (1)! > :D > > Roman > > (1) > > http://ramsar.wetlands.org/GISMaps/DownloadGISdatasets/tabid/769/language/en-US/Default.aspx > > ------- Forwarded message ------- > From: "PECK Dwight" <[email protected]> > To: "Roman Neumüller" <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: RE: shapefile usage of ramsar sites for openstreetmap.org > Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 11:27:06 +0300 > > Greetings, many thanks for your message. As far as we are concerned, we > consider all of the Ramsar site data and products, including those that > Wetlands International prepares for us, to be in the public domain. We > only ask that the use of any data should be dated so that users can judge > the currency and accuracy. > > Best regards, Dwight Peck. > > ********** > Dwight Peck > Communications Officer > Ramsar Convention on Wetlands > Gland, Switzerland > [email protected], www.ramsar.org > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Roman Neumüller [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 22 September 2009 10:15 > To: Ramsar Mailbox > Subject: Fwd: RE: shapefile usage of ramsar sites for openstreetmap.org > > Hello, > > I contacted Stephan Flink from wetlands.org to ask if openstreetmap.org > could make use of their shapefiles of Ramsar sites under Creative Commons > Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license. He adviced me to ask the Ramsar > Secretariat to confirm that there are no restriction to use this data (see > correspondence below). > > Please let me know if there are any legal restrictions in using the data. > > Greetings > Roman Neumüller > > ------- Forwarded message ------- > From: "Flink, Stephan" <[email protected]> > To: "Roman Neumüller" <[email protected]> > Cc: > Subject: RE: shapefile usage for openstreetmap.org > Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 10:52:33 +0300 > > Dear Roman, > > I'm not aware of any legal restrictions to display the shapefiles in OSM > other than the following ToU > (http://ramsar.wetlands.org/Home/tabid/719/ctl/Terms/Default.aspx). As > Wetlands International is the caretaker of all Ramsar Site information and > the ownership of the data lies with the Ramsar Secretariat in Switzerland > ([email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>), I suggest contacting the > Secretariat to ensure that this is indeed the case. > > Best wishes, > > Stephan Flink > > -----Original Message----- > From: Roman Neumüller [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: vrijdag 18 september 2009 16:14 > To: Flink, Stephan > Subject: RFI: shapefile usage for openstreetmap.org > > Hello Stephan, > > I see that I can download shapefiles of Ramsar sites from wetlands.org. > Are there any legal restrictions for conversion and usage of these > shapefiles under the wiki map project http://openstreetmap.org (OSM)? > > OSM's content is available under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike > 2.0 license... > > Greetings > Roman Neumüller > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk > >
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