Re: [Talk-ca] opendata datasets

2012-07-31 Thread john whelan
Normally the OSM .odbl license doesn't line up with the Open data license. Cheerio John On 30 July 2012 22:50, Bruno Remy bremy.qc...@gmail.com wrote: Hello There are so many Dataset available with Opendata JOSM plug-in. The only way to import other datasets is to develop a

Re: [Talk-ca] opendata datasets

2012-07-31 Thread Richard Weait
2012/7/31 Bruno Remy bremy.qc...@gmail.com: what!? do you mean openstreetmap denies opendata !!!? Come on! it's a joke? Dear Bruno, This is an old topic. I'll summarize for you. In short, yes, the OpenStreetMap community does reject a class of Open Data. We don't want data in OSM that we

Re: [Talk-ca] opendata datasets

2012-07-31 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:26 AM, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: 2012/7/31 Bruno Remy bremy.qc...@gmail.com: what!? do you mean openstreetmap denies opendata !!!? Come on! it's a joke? Dear Bruno, This is an old topic. I'll summarize for you. On the good side, we have Natural

Re: [Talk-ca] opendata datasets

2012-07-31 Thread Richard Weait
2012/7/31 Bruno Remy bremy.qc...@gmail.com: Thanks Richard for your considerations. While reading your comments, I'm carried to believe that : wheras Canadian municipalities produce scrap data versus europenan ones I don't believe this. Canadian citizen are less confident in theyr

Re: [Talk-ca] opendata datasets

2012-07-31 Thread Frank Steggink
Hi Bruno, Although there are many more European datasets listed in the catalogue, many of them are very small, covering only a city, province, etc. In North America there are a few, but very large datasets which have been imported or are in the process of being imported. Examples in the US

Re: [Talk-ca] opendata datasets

2012-07-31 Thread Bruno Remy
Hi folks, Thanks all for your comments. Here we go, just as Montreal city does, well think about it (mostly licence considerations) before taking actions: We've added an entry in Import catalog: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue#Ongoing_Imports.2C_Semi-Automated and started a

Re: [Talk-ca] opendata datasets

2012-07-31 Thread Frank Steggink
On 31-7-2012 15:09, Bruno Remy wrote: Does this Quebec city Opendata Licence compatible with OSM? (Y/N) And Why? http://donnees.ville.quebec.qc.ca/licence.aspx I'll give this a try with my understanding of French, so be aware... ;) I'll only pay attention to the clauses which might be an

Re: [Talk-ca] opendata datasets

2012-07-31 Thread Pierre Béland
 : Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org À : talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Cc : Envoyé le : Mardi 31 juillet 2012 14h44 Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] opendata datasets On 31-7-2012 15:09, Bruno Remy wrote: Does this Quebec city Opendata Licence compatible with OSM? (Y/N) And Why? http

Re: [Talk-ca] opendata datasets

2012-07-31 Thread Bruno Remy
original - De : Frank Steggink stegg...@steggink.org À : talk-ca@openstreetmap.org Cc : Envoyé le : Mardi 31 juillet 2012 14h44 Objet : Re: [Talk-ca] opendata datasets On 31-7-2012 15:09, Bruno Remy wrote: Does this Quebec city Opendata Licence compatible with OSM? (Y/N) And Why

[Talk-ca] opendata datasets

2012-07-30 Thread Bruno Remy
Hello There are so many Dataset available with Opendata JOSM plug-in. The only way to import other datasets is to develop a module,unfortunatly documentation on wiki is quite poor; http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/OpenData#Develop_a_module Does somebody have more details on howto