Re: [Talk-ca] source http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/

2016-05-26 Thread john whelan
So if I remember correctly I as a member of OSMF am legally liable according to the terms of the license if someone sues for whatever reason connected with this data in OSM not the person who added the data and that was the conern of the legal bit of OSM. The concern is I'm attached to my house

Re: [Talk-ca] source http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/

2016-05-25 Thread James
We do have permission from the city to import: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Permission but the OSM lawyers have said that the license is incompatible as the city can pass on a lawsuit if someone sues the city for pointing them to the wrong address with osm

[Talk-ca] source http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/

2016-05-25 Thread john whelan
I was looking in downtown Ottawa when I noticed two sets of addresses in the map. One appears to be labelled source=http://data.ottawa.ca/dataset/ which is city of Ottawa Open data portal which to my understanding isn't licensed for our use. I'm not certain how many other things have been