I just discovered that some municipalities in South Tyrol made their GIS data available in the internet. The list is available under [1] (the website is available in Italian and German).
At least one municipality (Eppan/Appiano) made all the data completely public domain (the enactment is available at [2]): DE "[...] wurde festgelegt, dass die im Eigentum der Gemeinde Eppan a.d.W. stehenden und im Internet veröffentlichten Daten frei und kostenlos genutzt und verteilt werden können." IT "[...] è stato deciso che i dati di proprietà del Comune di Appiano s.S.d.V. pubblicati in internet possono essere utilizzati e divulgati liberamente e gratuitamente." Eppan/Appiano also made all data downloadable as shapefiles ([3]). Now I'm not so sure what to do with all the data. I'm also confused a little bit, because of the fact that the provincial government is in possession of similar data which is not completely free to use, unfortunately (see discussion at [4])... It is also difficult the terms of usage for the data of the other municipalities. However, it seems to be a great chance to bring the mapping process in South Tyrol a big step forward. Does anyone know the procedure how to work such data into OSM? Best wishes, Martin [1] http://gis.gvcc.net/WebGis/02/catalog.jsp [2] http://data.gvcc.net/pdf/004_2006_a_0204.pdf [3-de] http://www.eppan.eu/system/web/zusatzseite.aspx?menuonr=218651503&detailonr=218623597#Grundkartografie [3-it] http://www.eppan.eu/system/web/zusatzseite.aspx?menuonr=218651503&detailonr=218623597&sprache=3 [4] http://www.mail-archive.com/talk-de@openstreetmap.org/msg38215.html PS: I posted this in the Italian as well as the German mailing-list, as the South-Tyroleans seem to be active in both of them. Feel free to answer in Italian or German in the respective lists. _______________________________________________ Talk-de mailing list Talk-de@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-de
