Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Ottawa, Canada import

2015-08-20 Thread Adam Martin
I would think it's the parts that give them the power to revoke the license to use the data at any time. For it to be used in OSM, it has to be essentially surrendered to the map. When I joined two years ago, one of the stipulations was to specifically accept the licensing agreement of OSM which

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Ottawa, Canada import

2015-08-20 Thread James
I got an email back from the guy handling the Licensing. Hi James, thank-you for the email. I’m not sure I understand the compatibility grid. Is there a particular issue you are concerned about? Note: we have plans to adapt the Open Government License Canada but have not been able to do

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Ottawa, Canada import

2015-08-19 Thread James
Email I got after I said I will be unable to use the data due to incompatible licensing: James, I’m going to forward this inquiry on to Robert Giggey. He is in charge of the Open Data program at the City. I must say, I am a little surprised that this interpretation is so restrictive. I

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Ottawa, Canada import

2015-08-19 Thread Stewart C. Russell
Hi James — What should I tell Stephen, to change the license for just OSM or in whole? For simplicity, they'd need to change the licence for everyone. A special carve-out for OSM alone would be fraught with problems. Ideally, they'd chose a licence that isunencumbered, like CC0 or PDDL. Any

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Ottawa, Canada import

2015-08-17 Thread Stewart C. Russell
Hi James, but I did receive approval from the city that we could import data from data.ottawa.ca/dataset http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset. Which I documented here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Permission I'm not a legal expert, but I think that OSM would have

Re: [Talk-ca] Fwd: Ottawa, Canada import

2015-08-17 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/17/2015 8:20 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote: Hi James, but I did receive approval from the city that we could import data from data.ottawa.ca/dataset http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset. Which I documented here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Permission I'm

[Talk-ca] Fwd: Ottawa, Canada import

2015-08-17 Thread James
Hello everyone, I was informed that before any kind of data import was to be approved by the community. Unfortunately I have imported a bit of data into openstreetmap and for this I am sorry. but I did receive approval from the city that we could import data from data.ottawa.ca/dataset. Which I