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> From: Jack Challen
> To: Pieren
> Sent: Monday, 23 March, 2009 23:06:24
> Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] (French/Legal) Legal clarification of using the
> French Cadastral plans
>
> Pieren wrote:
> > No, if you trace streets and take names from the cadastre, you also
> > have to write attribution.
>
> Ok, I shall. The areas I'm working on are completely blank, save for my prior
> work; I shall therefore add the "source=..." tag on all the new stuff I do
> via
> the plugin.
>
> > The page you refere needs some cleanup. If
> > the street is already there and you take only the name, you should add
> > something like "source:name" tag.
>
> I'll add the plain "source=..." -- although some initial location data is
> GPS-derived, I'll probably take a lot of information (i.e. I'll take more
> than
> just the name) from the cadastre.
> Would it be of use if I were to create an English version of that page? I'm
> not
> sure, as I'm not that likely to keep it updated, and perhaps wrong
> information
> does more harm than no information.
>
>
> > It's maybe easier to just enable the
> > auto-trace from the menu.
>
> My particular version (version 13785 (14003)) doesn't appear to have
> auto-trace.
> I might look into it.
>
> > Sometimes the cadastre toponymy is outdated
> > or different from what is on the streets (hopefully it's rare). It's
> > not eastern eggs and the land registry do not care very much if you
> > just copy the names without attribution but it will help other
> > contributors who are going on the ground to understand why they might
> > see a different name or a different syntax from the street signs.
>
> Fair enough.
> On two slightly-related notes:
>
> 1) Is the cadastre _correct_, or is what's on the ground _correct_? (This
> point
> doesn't particularly matter to me: if I were to do the right thing I'd inform
> the local land registry that e.g. signage disagrees with the cadastre.
>
> 2) What do I do if I believe some of the cadastral data is out of date? The
> scans for Glanges look... wrong, at least compared to what I've got.
>
>
> Anyway, thanks for your help, Sylvain and Pieren.
>
> cheers
> jack
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