Hi Julien, You mention we have permission to trace from Bing. In the mean time we have better imagery (higher resolution, more recent) in Flanders and Brussels provided by AGIV, which we are also allowed to trace. We also have permission to, if I understood correctly, to use their WMS (or is that CRAB) to trace/verify street names and house numbers.
Maybe the Region Wallonne can do one better by allowing us to trace/reuse building outlines :-) like in Brussels Region. Open data and Open source are two orthogonal subjects, one can proces opendata with closed source software or closed data with open source software. We have a preference for software under free licenses, but everybody should be able/allowed to use whatever software they please and can afford as long as they comply with the licenses. Jo 2014-03-15 11:53 GMT+01:00 Ben Abelshausen <ben.abelshau...@gmail.com>: > First of all Julien: thanks for all your hard work and enthusiasm in > taking on this task! :-) > > I think it is pretty obvious that we would want to promote usage of > open-source as well but I think this is something that is not the task of > our community. > > We can recommend using open-source tools but the argument against opening > data cannot ever be 'open-data is not possible because then we would have > to use open-source software'. I think we should be very very clear that > these two are different. An excel document with nice juicy open-data is > still a good thing. > > But we can still recommend using open-source tools, we just have to be > careful about how this is done in this document. > > Also: We should be careful about positioning the OSM project in Belgium as > a project that wants to collect/incorporate open-data sets. We are about > collecting data in the form of mapping the world, not about collecting > open-geo-data sets. That was an argument for me to join everything with > OKFN into one document. > > Met vriendelijke groeten, > Best regards, > > Ben Abelshausen > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-be mailing list > Talk-be@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-be > >
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