[open-government] Terms of Use - Windsor, Ontario, Canada

Mon Nov 15 03:11:34 UTC 2010

Mita;

You can read about consultation on the TOU here (
http://traceyplauriault.ca/2010/07/21/changecamp-ottawa-2010-open-data-terms-of-use-session/
)

A report from CIPPIC (http://www.cippic.ca/) on the topic will imminently
appear on their website - stay tuned.

It is currently a restrictive MOU the report will clarify the issues and
provides some recommendations.  The G4 cities are working on this.

I recommend you bring the conversation into the civiaccess.ca (
http://lists.pwd.ca/mailman/listinfo/civicaccess-discuss) where there has
been much active discussion on this topic in the Canadian context.  You can
also look at the archive for tips and read this blog post (
http://zzzoot.blogspot.com/2010/07/its-not-open-data-so-stop-calling-it.html
).

You may want to suggest that the Windsor folks contact one of the G4 Open
Data cities and ask them the status of this report.  "McCaffrey, Sean" <
Sean.McCaffrey at ottawa.ca>, is the lead on this file.  The faster they move
on this file the better it will be for all new cities coming on board as
they will have I think a better ToU tool to work with if they adopt the
recommendations of the report.

Also, why load the data to the GeoCommons instead of just pointing to it?
Just curious?

Cheers
tracet

From: Mita Williams <mita.williams at gmail.com>
Subject: [open-government] Windsor Ontario has an open data catalogue.
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In a wonderful bit of timing, the City of Windsor released released an
Open Data Catalogue: http://www.citywindsor.ca/003713.asp

Its a small set of largely spatial data : points and shape files but
its a start. Myself, Paul Synott and others are working on hosting an
Open Data Hackfest to celebrate and work on this data:
http://www.citizfaction.ca/index.php/latest/137-open-data-comes-to-windsor

At the moment, I'm working on possible ideas for projects for the day
and in doing so, I was looking for some guidance about the whole
matter of terms of use.  According to Richard Weait, an active
contributor to OpenStreetMap, the current language used in conjunction
Canadian Municipal data sets is too restrictive to allow for uploading
these points into OSM.
http://weait.com/content/unintended-restrictions

Is this considered a very strict reading of the current terms of use
agreements?

Actually, the real question behind the question is this: is ok for
someone like myself to upload the data catalogue of the City of
Windsor into such sites as http://geocommons.com/ or elsewhere?

Mita Williams
http://www.aedileworks.com/

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Tracey P. Lauriault
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