Thanks Richard, Hugely important for wikimedia but I don't think we need to go as far as defining it for the UK OSM Group (others may disagree).
Hopefully it is clear that we are saying any content/information/data that wider OSM community considers to be suitable for use in OSM. This would include geospatial data under a suitable licence, but also aerial imagery, historic maps, geo referenced photos, etc... Regards, *Rob* On 17 February 2016 at 22:19, Richard Symonds < richard.symo...@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote: > WMUK uses the following definition: > https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/Open_knowledge > > "The definition of Open Content given in the Articles of Association says: > > "Content" means textual or numerical information, still or moving images, > sound or music or other data disseminated on printed, electronic and other > appropriate media and services. Content is subject to editorial policies > and safeguards designed to ensure its overall accuracy and quality. > > Content is "Open" when it is available for no charge and without > discrimination to the general public, with legal rights to view, copy, > share, adapt, improve and otherwise use and reuse that content and when > technical measures are in place to support such usage." > > Richard Symonds > Wikimedia UK > 0207 065 0992 > > Wikimedia UK is a Company Limited by Guarantee registered in England and > Wales, Registered No. 6741827. Registered Charity No.1144513. Registered > Office 4th Floor, Development House, 56-64 Leonard Street, London EC2A 4LT. > United Kingdom. Wikimedia UK is the UK chapter of a global Wikimedia > movement. The Wikimedia projects are run by the Wikimedia Foundation (who > operate Wikipedia, amongst other projects). > > *Wikimedia UK is an independent non-profit charity with no legal control > over Wikipedia nor responsibility for its contents.* > > On 17 February 2016 at 22:05, Rob Nickerson <rob.j.nicker...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> >Hi everyone >> > >> >3rd draft following this week's concall >> ><snip> >> > >> >@Rob - this really needs to go in the wiki but I'm not really proficient at >> >wiki editing >> > >> >Regards >> >Brian >> >> Hi Brian, >> >> Sorry for the delay. This is done now [1]. By the way the wiki is now a >> lot easier to edit as it has a new "WYSIWYG" type editor :-) >> >> My comments on the draft are: >> >> - To avoid confusion with OS OpenData we should change "OpenData" to >> either "open data" or, my preference, the more general "information". >> - As we cover UK and Islands then we shouldn't use just UK in the >> objectives. Suggest replacing "the UK" with "the Region" and defining this >> somewhere in our articles of association. >> >> We should push to adopt this at the next meeting. Do we have a date for >> that yet? >> >> Cheers, >> *Rob* >> [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_Group >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-GB mailing list >> Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb >> >> >
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