I have a statement from the city that the ODBL and ODL are inline and pose no issues from the city's stand point.
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Canada:Ontario:Ottawa/Import/Plan#Explicit_permission On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Stewart C. Russell <scr...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > -- 外に遊びに行こう！
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