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

[Caine, Abel]

Thanks Davide.

To the OER Community, note that the completely FOSS-based OpenStreetMap has the equivalent list of lat/long coordinates as the list from the UN.

Regards,
Abel

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On 22 nov. 2012, at 00:07, "Storti, Davide" <d.storti at unesco.org<mailto:d.storti at unesco.org>> wrote:

Dear Abel,

1. The list exists and ... It's OSM itself which is also openly licensed. As a database, you can query it for all these coordinates and even for metadata information or relations.
Check for example taginfo: http://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/addr%3Acountry

2. There is no copyright on geographical coordinates, although this is not clear to everyone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Obtaining_geographic_coordinates

I think this should answer the concerns raised.
Davide




Il giorno 21 nov. 2012, alle ore 09:40, "Caine, Abel" <a.caine at unesco.org<mailto:a.caine at unesco.org>> ha scritto:

Davide,

Does the OSM Community maintain an openly-licensed table/wiki of the lat-longs of major points in the world just like the copyrighted UN list below?
http://www.unece.org/cefact/locode/service/location.html

Could you forward this question to your FOSS/OSM Communities, askign them to copy me with replies?

Regards,
Abel


From: oer-community-bounces at athabascau.ca<mailto:oer-community-bounces at athabascau.ca> [mailto:oer-community-bounces at athabascau.ca] On Behalf Of Wayne Mackintosh
Sent: Wednesday, 21 November 2012 09:27
To: oer-community
Subject: Re: [Oer-community] Global Open Access Map - - resource for location coordinates

Hi Virginia,

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 9:10 PM, Virginia Cram-Martos <Virginia.Cram-Martos at unece.org<mailto: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.

While in many jurisdictions, it is not possible to assert copyright on data, the UN site to which you refer has a very clear all rights reserved copyright notice.

Quoting<http://www.unece.org/legal_notice/copyrightnotice.html> 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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