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aourednik / historical-basemaps

Collection of georeferenced boundaries of world countries and cultural regions for use in mapping historical data on global or continental scale
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Closed thisisaaronland closed 6 years ago

thisisaaronland commented 6 years ago

Hi,

What is the licensing for this data? If appropriate it seems like a valuable dataset to import / hold hands with Who's On First:

https://whosonfirst.org/

Historical data always took a back seat to other day-to-day concerns but it was (is) definitely still something we want to support:

https://whosonfirst.org/blog/2017/06/29/tackling-space-and-time-in-whosonfirst/

aourednik commented 6 years ago

Hi, Thaks for pointing that out. I've added a licence file. https://github.com/aourednik/historical-basemaps/blob/master/LICENSE

thisisaaronland commented 6 years ago

Alas, the license makes it incompatible with WOF :-)

Cheers,

williamscraigm commented 6 years ago

Any chance this could be licensed under a more data-oriented license like CC-BY, CC BY-SA ,or ODBL? GPL is not well defined for non-software uses.