Hi All,
After I managed to receive the official streetmap data from my town-administration, I'm now quering the neighbouring towns for the same thing. Now, IMHO, what would help to persuade the administrations is a bit more legal security on the use of this information. After all, this information does also have a commercial value (when they are also licenced to the commercial streetmap companies) so it might be usefull to provide the same kind of thing. So, I don't know how the discussion on the "vzw" is going, but perhaps one of the things that I would concider it to be for it, would be to draw up a formal licence-agreement (perhaps you can ask legal support from one of the other "open-source" related organisation on this) and to be the party which who (say) a city council or a town's administration can sign this agreement. IMHO, the license would need to contain something like this: (this is just a rough idea, I tried to balance the rights of both parties as much as possible). - the city-council is copyright-owner of the information and remains it to be; including in furher copies of this information - the city-council permit the information to be entered into the openstreetmap-server, under the open-documentation licence - no commercial use of this information is allowed (this would stop the commercial companies from copying the streetmap-information from the openstreetmap-server instead of asking (read: pay for) it from the city-councils. It would then be usefull if the vzw would enter this kind of information into the openstreetmap-server. The situation now is that -as I am the person who received the informaton from my city-council and who uploaded it- if any legal problems would arrize this would all trace-back to me! So, if information received from thirth-parties would be uploaded by an account which is owned by the vzw; this would also safeguard the volonteers who do the work from being legally draged into a court-case if problems would arrize (e.g. with the commercial streetmap-companies). I think, if you have an organisation that works with volonteers, it's always your responsability to make sure these volonteers are as much "protected" as possible. (this is a bit in the same line as the message I posted earlier on assurence for volonteers who take part in a streetmapping-event). Any comments or questions welcome! Cheerio! Kr. Bonne. -- jabber/gtalk: krist...@krbonne.net
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