make copyright confirmation more stringent

jgravois commented 7 years ago

perhaps we could require users provide a url to a site which corroborates their claim that the data is licensed appropriately for inclusion in OSM?

whether proof is provided or not, we should ensure that the changeset includes explicit information identifying the upstream data source.

mapmeld commented 7 years ago

The two major issues which I think we face are

many geoservices have little or no copyright information
if a geoservice does say copyright of city/county/state, does this mean it's usually 'open data', and if it is open, is it free enough for OSM? (Chicago was asked to relicense their open buildings data before it was fully imported)

One more-extreme idea which we could steal from GlobaLeaks is giving users a quiz. They are given a short disclaimer about how GlobaLeaks security, Tor, and HTTPS, and then asked to fill out a few multiple-choice questions to show they understand their privacy.

jgravois commented 7 years ago

i looked into this today. our Hub/Open Data product encourages customers to specify a license, and we display a warning when one is not present, but it certainly is possible for users to share their data publicly without providing one.

(ref:) If you add a Creative Commons license (CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA) by either the name or URL, the dataset page will display the Creative Commons license icon and will link to the appropriate license details web page. If you add an Open Data Commons license (PDDL, ODbL, ODC-By) the dataset page will display the license name and link to the appropriate license details web page.

OSM's own doc clarifies that only CC0, PDDL and public domain are sufficient in and of themselves

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/ODbL_Compatibility

mapmeld commented 6 years ago

updated in #61

mapmeld / iD

make copyright confirmation more stringent #38