Hi Frederik, I updated the source tag in the Wiki for CLC import in Romania http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue. I am not sure if this is enough or will EEA require a complete change in the database?
Thanks, Ciprian On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:27 PM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > at a conference today I met someone who works for EEA in Copenhagen and > we had a chat about EEA data in OSM. A very friendly chat, I must add, he > wasn't actually complaining about anything, but he did mention a few > oddities he found when studying how OSM was using CORINE (and Urban Atlas) > data. > > I'm listing them here in the hope that maybe some of them can be rectified, > or avoided in future CORINE imports (hello Dermot!) > > a) Corine Land Cover > > Generally, you can obtain CORINE data from national bodies or from the EEA > directly. The data sets may be minimally different, and may be licensed > differently. > > The French import states as their source: "Union européenne - SOeS, CORINE > Land Cover, 2006.", where SoeS stands for "le service de l'Observation et > des Statistiques (SOeS) du Commissariat général au développement durable > (CGDD)". This is a French national organisation. > > The Romanian import took their data directly from the EEA (as documented on > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/CLC_RO_Permission), but in their source > tags they credit SOeS like the French did which is not correct. It would be > great if this could be fixed, or at least rectified on the wiki page. > > There's also a Spanish, Estonian, and Hungarian CORINE import of which I > haven't fully investigated the tags. For Hungary, > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalog mentions both the > national office and the EEA as their source which is porbably not correct > either. > > b) Urban Atlas > > There's a lot of Urban Atlas-sourced material in OSM was well, most of it > in Poland or Slovakia. Some of it is tagged only with "source=urban atlas" > but there's no mention of the EEA. Much like ourselves, the EEA would prefer > to be credited properly if their data is used. > > As I said, it's not that EEA are complaining (and they don't have any > set-in-stone attribution rules anyway, only that you have to attribute) but > we should certainly aim to do it right! > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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