Ugh, okay, we had it from the horse's mouth so to speak that the license on the new CKAN catalogue would be OGL. I will sanity check this today.
To their credit they are very sensitive to issues surrounding OS derived works. It is quietly wonderful to hear a local authority rep talking of QGIS and GeoJSON in a perfectly natural manner. neiljp went a lot further digging around with Overpass looking for matching names as well as tagged amenities, and there's a decent quantity of way rather than node data there already, so any import will be manual not semi-automated The feedback is apprec, Dan S On Sat, Feb 7, 2015, at 09:31 PM, Dan S wrote: > Hi Jo, > > How do you know it's OGL licensed? I went to try and find the licence > and I found this page: > http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/open_data/education_learning.asp > where the licence is stated to be CC-BY-SA-3, which cannot be imported > into OSM (because the SA constraint means it can't be relicensed as > ODBL). I can't be certain that I found the "same" schools data (...in > fact it has 72 vs 70 items in it...), but I guess at some point the > imports-list would demand proper proof that it's available under a > compatible licence. They'd also ask how the lat/lon were found (did it > involve OS? google?), since that's been an issue with some imports. > > From my point of view, this is a simple and small dataset and I > personally would not object to an import as long as duplicates were > avoided etc. Others probably feel different. It's mainly the licence > question for me. Oh and I don't live anywhere near Aberdeen ;) > > Best > Dan > > 2015-02-07 17:24 GMT+00:00 Jo Walsh <metaz...@fastmail.net>: > > I'm here at http://codethecity.org and neiljp has just arrived, too, and > > we are egging one another on to import some Aberdeen city council open > > data into OSM. > > > > Specifically looking at this dataset of schools with point locations: > > > > http://open311.xoverto.com/dev/v1/facilities/schools.json > > > > An overpass query reveals a mix of node and way data for schools > > existing, with nothing like the same coverage. > > > > Would people be broadly okay with this / should we be following a > > process through the list? > > > > The data is OGL licensed. > > > > > > zx > > > > -- > > Jo Walsh > > metaz...@fastmail.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Talk-GB mailing list > > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-GB mailing list > Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
