Hi, folks! I'm a new OSM contributor in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I'm doing some manual, on-the-ground, local knowledge mapping, but I'm also looking for importable sources of important data types we're currently missing locally.
There is a guy running a project at http://wherepost.ca/ to produce a crowdsourced database of post box locations in Canada. There's a feedback page at http://wherepost.ca/about/ where I've been interacting with him. I believe his intent is for this information to be free, but I don't think he has the necessary framework in place for this: Me: "Hi, Steve. I'm wondering if the dataset for this site is available in a processable form anywhere, and what the license on the data is. I'd love to look at the possibility of adding the information to OpenStreetMap. Thanks!" Him: "hah! I've never thought of a license for this. My take has been this is/should be entirely public data - Canada post is a crown corporation, and so anyone should be able to use this for any non-commercial purpose." I'm not a lawyer (that's why I'm mailing this list :>) but I believe his assumption that the data is already free by nature of its...nature is incorrect, as I explained in a follow-up comment. Would anyone be able/willing to help the admin make whatever changes are necessary to his project to make it properly free and hence reusable by OSM and, of course, other projects? I think he'd be happy to have the help. Thanks folks! -- adamw _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
