[Oer-community] Global Open Access Map - - resource for location coordinates

Wed Nov 21 01:47:54 MST 2012

Dear Wayne,

I have had a number of discussions on this with UN legal and it is my
understanding that their logic is that they want the UN to maintain the
copyright in order to ensure that: i)  no one changes the data (for example
someone changing a country name and then distributing the list as the
"official" codelist); ii)  no one sells it (all UN outputs paid for by the
regular budget are free of charge); and iii) no one uses it for activities
the the UN would not want to be associated with(for example, in the cases
of coordinates, warfare).

If you have any suggestions for alternate formulations that would address
all of these concerns, I would be happy to launch inquiries with our legal
service about changing the IPR statement.

The data is free for use and in practice, as I mentioned in my original
message, is widely used by many governments and companies (it is also
referenced in at least one international transport convention).

Best regards,

Virginia

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From:	Wayne Mackintosh <mackintosh.wayne at gmail.com>
To:	oer-community <oer-community at athabascau.ca>
Date:	21/11/2012 09:30
Subject:	Re: [Oer-community] Global Open Access Map - - resource for
            location coordinates
Sent by:	oer-community-bounces at athabascau.ca

Hi Virginia,

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Virginia Cram-Martos <
Virginia.Cram-Martos at unece.org> wrote:
  The website where you can find the codes (and their coordinates)
  organised by country and alphabetically within the country is:
  http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/service/location.html - so no need for
  most of you to figure out how to get your GPS to give you the coordinates
  of where you are - you can just go to the web.

That's an amazing resource and I hope that the OER community can aquire
permissions to use the data.

Quoting from the site:

    "Copyright (c) United Nations 2000-2008. All rights reserved. None of
    the materials provided on this web site may be used, reproduced or
    transmitted, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means,
    electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or the use
    of any information storage and retrieval system, except as provided for
    in the Terms and Conditions of Use of United Nations Web Sites, without
    permission in writing from the publisher."

How can we legally use the resources on this site for open education
purposes? Would the UN consider changing the copyright license on this web
site? Who do we need to contact requesting permission to change the license
so we can use these resource for the benefit of OER?

Cheers
Wayne

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