On Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:26:36 +0200, Pieren wrote > On Sun, Sep 13, 2009 at 7:56 PM, Ben Laenen <benlae...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'd say, just upload whatever you have in Belgium. We don't have access to > > the > > CLC, and I don't think we'll ever have it, as our National Geographic > > Institution is selling them at [WINDOWS-1252?]2500 http://www.ngi.be/NL/NL1-5-4.shtm (site > > currently down) -- and I don't think we'd be able to use it for OSM even if > > we'd buy it. > > Ok, thanks for the reply. Our contact at the french ministry said > that opening the licence for Corine (for free and commercial reuse) > is also discussed at the european level. But so far, only two countries > changed their licence. > > > Will there be a way to also get the polygons which weren't uploaded because > > they would overlap already existing polygons? Since CLC is likely more > > accurate than the polygons there are now near the French border. > > Yes, at the moment, we prepare one big osm file for the import of non > overlapping polygones. The others are also in several .osm files > sorted by categories (forest, water, landuse, etc) but we still don't > know exactly how we will make them available for manual consolidations > (ideally a wms server). >
Hello, It would be very interesting to see our European geographic data, which were collected with public money, freed for public usage ! Juste retour des choses... Regards, Alain > regards > Pieren > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be --- Dr Alain EMPAIN, Bioinformatics, Bryology National Botanic Garden of Belgium alain.emp...@br.fgov.be University of Liège, GIGA +1, Alma-in-silico alain.emp...@ulg.ac.be Rue des Martyrs, 11 B-4550 Nandrin Mobile: +32 497 701764 HOME:+32 85 512341 ULG: +32 4 3664157 _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
