-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 6:58 AM, Niklas Cholmkvist wrote: > Hello, > > I have a map which the technical service of my local authority gave me > when I visited their building and asked for a map, showing the > geographical boundaries of this authority. > > I now have a letter ready to be sent to them. Since it is in the Greek > language I've translated it to English, and made it a bit more general, > so it could point to any local > authority. I've searched in the wiki a bit in the past for a map use > request to a local authority, but just found such information scattered > around. Anyway, here is the letter: > > > Map of Municipality of Sykies > > To: Technical Service of the Municipality of Sykies – Department of city > planning & Cadastre > Address: Lechovou 4 > Postal Address: 566 26 > > Hello, > > I'm interested in using information that exists on the map and use it > (either as is or with changes) in a database of the organisation > openstreetmap. The geographical information that exist in this database > is licensed under Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported [1]. > > Openstreetmap is an organisation which tries to create a free map where > volunteers help out with geographical information, from many places of > the world. > If it's not possible, may I have your permission to use the information > of the map of the municipality of Sykies and add them to the database of > openstreetmap? > > I'm waiting for your reply > > My name > My address and postcode > My regular phone > My cell/mobile number > My email > Notes: > [1] : Brief information on the webpage > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.el >
While your link is correct, the name of the license is not. OSM uses the 2.0 BY-SA license, whose full name is "Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic". > If you have any suggestions on changes, or know of a place in the wiki > where something like a template for such a letter can be found I would > be happy. I have added the legal-talk list to this thread. This sort of thing is probably best discussed there instead of the newbies list. Denver http://ossguy.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: http://getfiregpg.org iD8DBQFI8mELq02IUA/pi34RAglEAJ9Ei/NTvHSvCJZlOkfbdX+6GL6g+gCggTNL PpmY30DWHebCEQMflZWWBXM= =WueD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
