Hi James - > Yet it's the same as the Vancouver one that has been approved, and had > data imported....
Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to be the way that OSM needs to work. The licences aren't the same: you can't use Vancouver's agreement to bind the City of Ottawa, and the Federal agreement doesn't hold Ottawa to anything about its data. The Vancouver data was available to OSM because Paul Norman and Adam Williamson[1] got an agreement from the city's Director, Access to Information stating that the city's data sets were released in accordance with the provincial Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act[2]. (I'd also recommend Paul Norman's notes on licence compatibility[3] linked from the OSM Vancouver page[4]: they explain why all these licenses aren't equivalent, and why it's so much work for us to accept them.) What I think - and I say think, because I'm learning too - needs to happen is that we ask the City's Access to Information officials: Can you please confirm in writing that the data sets * (name of data set 1) (url of data set 1) * (name of data set 2) (url of data set 2) * ... are released in accordance with the Ontario Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act? With that confirmation in hand, and the LWG's confirmation (requested by me, yesterday) that the City's data licence 2.0 is compatible, then I think the matter should go away. Apologies if my approach has appeared to change: as I said, I'm learning as I go along. Best Wishes, Stewart References: [1]: “[Talk-ca] [Fwd: Compliance statement] - Vancouver address information cleared for OSM use” <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2014-February/006037.html> [2]: “Compliance statement” <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/attachments/20140203/c3441d6a/attachment.mht> [3]: “[Talk-ca] Nanaimo OGL license” <https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-ca/2013-December/005974.html> [4]: “Canada:British Columbia:Vancouver” <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:British_Columbia:Vancouver#GIS_sources_by_city> _______________________________________________ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca