Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 121, Issue 12

2018-03-03 Thread keith hartley
Thanks for the advice, this might be something well worth pursuing, I can get building footprints reasonably easily but those extra attributes from a government are well worth their weight. There's a few governments here that are interested (sadly the City of Winnipeg won't release their building

Re: [Talk-ca] Brandon licensing

2018-03-03 Thread john whelan
> It didn't seem to stop every single municipal and provincial government wanting to tweak the wording a bit, which makes it a different licence every time. The TB licence is fairly new. As far as I am aware only Ottawa has adopted it so far. Cheerio John On 3 Mar 2018 2:16 pm, "Stewart C.

Re: [Talk-ca] Talk-ca Digest, Vol 121, Issue 6

2018-03-03 Thread Stewart C. Russell
On 2018-03-02 11:53 PM, keith hartley wrote: > > Scruff - thanks for the insight on the license, would explicit > permission from them for this project work? or does the license null > it? It's supposed to be based off the national open data license but > is highly modified. oh autocorrect and

Re: [Talk-ca] Brandon licensing

2018-03-03 Thread Stewart C. Russell
On 2018-03-03 11:59 AM, john whelan wrote: > > I assume you're not Canadian. Umm, Steve is one of the longest-standing Canadian OSM contributors. I think he's the admin of talk-ca too … > All data released through > their Open Data portal is under their licence which has been approved by > the

Re: [Talk-ca] Brandon licensing

2018-03-03 Thread john whelan
> Whenever I've spoken[1] to government representative about choosing an OSM compatible license I tell them to choose between PDDL and CC0. Use one of these two licenses as written, don't make any changes to them. These are the two licenses listed as fully compatible with both the CT and ODBL

Re: [Talk-ca] Brandon licensing

2018-03-03 Thread Steve Singer
On Sat, 3 Mar 2018, john whelan wrote: > This brings me to the conclusion after all these discussions something similar to what SteveA-2009 mentioned. Instead of having OSM conform to these licenses, would be be able to get the governing bodies to conform to OSM? In many cases, I'm working

Re: [Talk-ca] BC2020i, Brandon Open Data and Treasury Board Open Data License

2018-03-03 Thread Jonathan Brown
s://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Canada/Build >> ing_Canada_2020 >> >> But what it doesn't do is give examples of how to enrich the building >> outlines. >> >> When I spoke to Stats Canada it was the enrichment that was the most >> valuabl

[Talk-ca] Brandon licensing

2018-03-03 Thread john whelan
> This brings me to the conclusion after all these discussions something similar to what SteveA-2009 mentioned. Instead of having OSM conform to these licenses, would be be able to get the governing bodies to conform to OSM? In many cases, I'm working with my colleges in the GIS community to