Several specific data sets though come directly from the governments and are not necessarily (depending on the country) scraped together from propriatory data sets. If a special license permission would be required from that, it would be good to know that ahead - but I would personally not invest any effort in that, given the lack of interest from OSM side.
Also, database rights do not automatically exist, like copyright of course - and I strongly doubt if in this specific case there would even be applicable database rights to the government collections, since the data were not collected to create value. (but that would require probably a more in depth discussion - again no interest to spend a lot of time on that given the lack of interest)
Best,
Lodewijk
No dia 29 de Janeiro de 2012 00:31, aude
<aude.wiki@gmail.com> escreveu:
On Jan 28, 2012, at 6:17 PM, Tomasz Ganicz <
polimerek@gmail.com> wrote:
2012/1/29 Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com>:
Tomasz Ganicz, 27/01/2012 23:43:
We wanted to make such a cooperation with OSM Poland - but it failed -
mainly due to lack of commitment from Polish OSM community. I guess -
we should rather use OSM data and make our own map service, by adding
our slice of data. OSM people generaly like to edit OSM maps and it is
hard to persuade them to do something extra :-)
Doesn't this produce any useful data for their maps?
Yes, of course - I might imagine that they will incorporate our data
to the OSM - they are using bots to mass-upload data if it is only
possible from legal POV, just as we are doing this for Wikipedia :-) -
but to find OSM people ready to join another project is as hard as
persuade wikipedians to edit other non-Wikimedia projects :-)
Wikipedia systematically often gets coordinates from google maps and earth, and is considered a data collection, and not clean in terms of db rights.
Wikipedia operates under US law and no database rights. Geocoordinates are facts and not copyright so we regard it okay to take coordinates from google
Katie