I fail to see why there would be a problem, legally, to import CORINE if the license is compatible. IGN/NGI would not be a party in this, as the EEA licenses CORINE.
If it would be actually useful is another matter altogether. I think it would look nice on lower zoom levels, and could be useful as a starting point for individual mappers to improve upon, but more detailed data may already be available which would make a blanket import action undesirable. Martijn Martijn van Exel +++ m...@rtijn.org Laziness – Impatience – Hubris http://schaaltreinen.nl twitter: mvexel skype: mvexel flickr: rhodes On May 16, 2010, at 9:47 PM, Lennard wrote: > As some of you may know, last year the French have imported the CORINE > Land Cover 2006 (CLC 2006) dataset. This dataset aims to classify every > bit of surface of the participating countries. It is a project of the > European Environment Agency (EEA) in conjunction with national mapping > agencies. For Belgium, I believe this would be the NGI/IGN. > > While they did get approval to import their CLC 2006 dataset, getting > approval from the NGI/IGN in Belgium would probably be problematic, and > actually getting the data from them even worse. Although, if we don't > ask, we'll never know for sure. (Anyone up for contacting them?) > > However, the CLC 2000 dataset is fully available on the EEA website, and > has usage terms that seem to be very compatible with OSM. > > "Unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for > commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, > provided that the source is acknowledged." > > On IRC, someone wanted to contact the EEA explicitly to obtain > permission (for Belgium, but why not ask this for the entire dataset?). > I don't see a problem with that, although for me the terms on the EEA > site are clear. > > I have made an overlay which shows the CLC 2000 data on the OSM map: > > http://mijndev.openstreetmap.nl/~ldp/clc2000/ > > This is so you can already enjoy what we may be able to import, and > maybe use it as a backdrop in Potlatch/JOSM or other editors to use. I > don't recommend actually tracing the polygons, as a direct import is > much easier. > > The amount of changes between CLC 2000 and CLC 2006 is on the order of > 0.5% over the entire covered region. The overwhelming amount of polygons > would be unchanged. I think there's not much harm in working with CLC > 2000, even if it is 10+ years old. > > I have received the scripts used for the French CLC 2006 import, and can > adapt and use those for an import of CLC 2000 for any area. I'm going to > test them and prepare an import file for Belgium, which can be imported > later on, if no valid objections are lodged. > > > -- > Lennard > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be _______________________________________________ Talk-be mailing list Talk-be@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be
