Hello PopeyePopcord,

I’ve asked on talk-ca about the suitability for the licences that you are using for use in OSM - see the thread here. I’d suggest that you dicuss it in more detail with the Canadian community.

Thanks for the information provided so far on e.g. changeset/119761959 about the suitability of that source.

To answer the question on changeset/119755674 (“how is using open data not allowed”), the problem is that not all “open” data licences are compatible with each other (or with OSM). There have been examples of government datasets (e.g. in the UK) that were initially believed to be licence-compatible with OSM but later found to contain IP from a non-open source. It may be that other people have done much of the work of licence checking for you - but we need to be sure that the data that you are using really is available under a licence compatible with OSM.

Best Regards,

Andy

Canadian Open Government Licence has been approved as compatible with ODbL by the Licence Working Group (LWG).

many municipalities have Open Data datasets suitable for importing now

i looked and it said many municipalities have Open Data datasets suitable for importing now, which means Winnipeg should be no exception

if you have any doubts check the wiki and you will indeed find out that those sources were approved as compatible with ODbL by the Licence Working Group (LWG).

City of Winnipeg Open Data Portal - Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Winnipeg, actually means i got the winnipeg street names that i added from https://data.winnipeg.ca/, not google, if you keep reverting my edits and say they were from google you would be dead wrong

If the Information Provider does not provide a specific attribution statement, or if you are using Information from several information providers and multiple attributions are not practical for your product or application, you must use the following attribution statement: Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Winnipeg. which is why I added it to the source

‘This is version 1.0 of the Open Government Licence – Winnipeg. The Information Provider may make changes to the terms of this licence from time to time and issue a new version of the licence. Your use of the Information will be governed by the terms of the licence in force as of the date you accessed the information.’

if you have any doubts check the wiki and you will indeed find out that those sources were approved as compatible with ODbL by the Licence Working Group (LWG).

it says OGL Canada 2.0, compatible, and thats the one i used

under https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/OGL_Canada_and_local_variants

osm.wiki/Potential_Datasources/Local_data it says Winnipeg MB Winnipeg Open data website: data.winnipeg.ca; Open Government Licence – Winnipeg[8] Winnipeg Transit Open Data Web Service: api.winnipegtransit.com; Open Data Commons PDDL[9]; Terms of Use[10] See also Winnipeg#Open data

Hi there,

In case you didn’t know, we now have acess to GeoBase data!

Hi there,

In case you didn’t know, we now have acess to GeoBase data!