Hi, On 21 June 2011 22:23, Frank Steggink <stegg...@steggink.org> wrote: > I just noticed this post about European urban landuse vector data: > http://blog.weogeo.com/2011/06/21/data-blog-european-urban-land-use-vectors/ > > It might be interesting for local communities within the EU who are seeking > to improve landuse data in OSM in their area. > This data can be downloaded here: > http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/urban-atlas > > The license seems to be compatible with CC-BY-SA or the ODbL, as long as the > source is attributed: > > Rights: > EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of > content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes > is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is > acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright > holder: Directorate-General Enterprise and Industry. >
The UA data is accompanied by reports from the teams that collected the data for each city. In many places they list Google Earth imagery as a reference. They also included roads "landuse" which is a buffer around the centrelines of roads and the source of the centrelines is only listed as "off-the-shelf navigation data". I would love to know what this data is as it's quite complete although apparently positional errors of 10-20m were added. But I think it's okay to use it in OSM if EEA thinks it's okay, and I think someone has asked EEA already (there have been imports in some countries already and some small-scale uses elsewhere. In Slovakia IIRC, they decided to manually remove and patch the "roads" landuse which cut through other landuse polygons). Cheers _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list Imports@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
