"Catastro" is the official land register for Spain. I holds information about every single plot and building, street, street numbers, and lots of statistical information about them. However, it has traditionally been quite restrictive or unclear about its usage policy, and that is why it was not used as a source for the project.
Well, the good news is that yesterday it made and official statement in which it changes the license to some of its services: [1] In short, it allows (as far as I understand): * Massive downloads from its web page (unless done badly, as a DOS, etc.) * Downloading of shapefiles (vectorial data) and alphanumeric info of every single Spanish municipality * They do not allow redistribution of exact copies of their data, but if the data is transformed or adapted in any way, *the resulting work is fully copyright of the author of the transformation* * They explicitly allow commercial usage of the derivative works, but request authorship * The only data they are not freeing now is WMS usage and private data like property owner names I think it is an announcement with the same impact as the one from the French Cadastre or Ordinance Survey permissions, maybe even better, as we have directly permission to get and use the vectorial data, updated every 3 months. We are yet greatly shocked on the Spanish mailing list, but if anyone is interested we will start working on coordinating there and on the wiki. We have yet to review the exact conditions and how to conform with them, and also see how are we going to merge it with existing data. Also thanks to anybody involved in making official data like these more open; it seems like a license done exactly so it can be used in projects like OSM, and I think that is not a coincidence. -- Jynus [1]<http://www.catastro.meh.es/ayuda/legislacion/ovc/resoluciondgc20110323_tfs.pdf> [Sorry, PDF, Spanish only] [2]<http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-es/2011-April/007589.html> _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
