On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:15 PM, john whelan <jwhelan0...@gmail.com> wrote: > http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2010/05/12/ottawa-open-data.html > > It will probably take some time before we can digest it but it looks like it > should be available soon.
That's good news that Ottawa is open to Open. Thanks for bringing this link to us. You might recall my interest in seeing municipalities select the right license when they publish their data. I see that they include promising guidelines in the article but no mention of a specific license. "8. License-free Data is not subject to any copyright, patent, trademark or trade secret regulation. Reasonable privacy, security and privilege restrictions may be allowed.” I see that Thomas has already found the Ottawa license and drawn some of the same conclusions I did regarding the Edmonton, Toronto and Vancouver licenses. I don't see a date on Thomas' post so I don't know if he drew any inspiration from my article. Thomas recommends ODbL for municipal licenses where I recommend PDDL. http://www.dataott.org/app/need/show/6 http://weait.com/content/unintended-restrictions Too bad we can't use the Ottawa data under this license for OSM. Best regards, Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca
