Nick Black wrote: > Hello, > > I've been involved in some ongoing dialogue with Natural Resources, > Government of Canada, who are keen for their National Road Network to > be used by OSM. There are a few particularities of the license that > need clarifying on OSM's party. Natural Resources are happy that OSM's > current cc-by-sa license is fully compatible with their own licensing. > I would appreciate input from the community here - do we agree with > Natural Resources' interpretation of the license? If not can we give > them some constructive feedback regarding their own license? If so, > I'll move ahead with getting the data imported. > > See email below: > > Cheers, > > > > > > -- > Nick Black > -------------------------------- > http://www.blacksworld.net > > > > Thanks for the update Nick. It's good to see some progress on this front, especially with 2 more provinces recently signing agreements that will place a much richer data set into Geobase later this year.
I'm not sure if you are aware or not but I had started on an initial tool to import the Geobase data last fall, its in the SVN at http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/import/geobase2osm/. I had started developing and testing against the NRN 2.0 data (which currently exists only for P.E.I.), but it should work with a few adjustments for the base NRN data that they are providing currently. If nobody has any qualms with the interpretation of the licenses it should be rather straight forward to move to the next step. We've recently started a talk-ca list for the Canadian users which would be a good place to start moving forward as there will be a number of places that the data that exists will be more thorough then geobase is, similar to what happened with TIGER in places. ----------------------------- Jason Reid Web Technical Administrator Faculty of Social Sciences University of Calgary Social Sciences 515 403-220-7903 ----------------------------- _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk
