[Live-demo] License on data

Scott Penrose scottp at dd.com.au
Wed Dec 12 03:48:43 PST 2012


On 12/12/2012, at 10:36 PM, Cameron Shorter <cameron.shorter at gmail.com> wrote:

> Scott,
> Based on this response, I'd be inclined to encourage you to avoid using the SRTM data due to the licence.

No problem. Terrain data and Satellite image licenses have hit me in a few projects. Bit of a pain we don't have a good CC source.

> Re datasets on OSGeo-Live, look at:
> http://live.osgeo.org/en/overview/overview.html
> Data
> 
> Natural Earth - Geographic Data Sets
> OSGeo North Carolina, USA Educational dataset
> OpenStreetMap - Sample extract from OpenStreetMap
> 
> In particular, would the North Carolina dataset suffice?

Should be, I note on their own web site they are using SRTM data as their terrain raster data. But maybe they have licensed the data in a way that relicense it.
I will see if I can recompile a map using that data instead.

Ta

Scott

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