2. Who we are...The GeoBusiness Commission
• Installed 2004 by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs
and Energy as part of the national Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) of
Germany
• The office is located at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and
Natural Resources in Hannover
• Members are 24 umbrella organisations from different branches of
the German economy
3. How does spatial data find its way from providers to users?
• Bring together the different actors from politics, economy and
administration
• Initiate and learn from lead projects
• Set up taskforces to support standardization of data policies
• Studies focused on licensing and privacy
What we do...
4. You have a business idea with Geodata
You have to care about - among many other things
• Licenses
• Privacy
• Reliability of OpenData
Open Geodata for Commercial Users
5. Licenses and Geodata
Which License is attached to your data?
Does your dataset have a license for commercial
use?
Not always the case with geodata
6. Licenses of the GovData Portal
Geography, Geology and basic spatial data (e.g. topo maps, DOP)
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7. Open Data Principles*
1. Completeness
2. primacy
3. Timeliness
4. Ease of Physical and Electronic Access
5. Machine readability
6. Non-discrimination
7. Use of Commonly Owned Standards
8. Licensing
9. Permanence
10. Usage Costs
* Sunlight Foundation 2010, (Open Data Working Group 2007)
8. “All rights reserved” -- traditional Copyright
“Some rights reserved” the guiding principle of open content licenses
by enabling others to use, share and mix their work without the need to
ask in advance.
e.g. CC Licenses: automatic termination clause: any license violation
terminates the license automatically.
• Be diligent in selecting a particular license.
• Incompatibility problem (GNU FDL and CC BY-SA)
Open Content – Open Data
9. • OpenStreetMap data is licensed under the Open Database License.
• But: before 09/2012 CC-BY-SA 2.0
• The single objects of the database are licensed under the "Database
Contents License (DbCL) 1.0".
• OSM-Data, commercial use is allowed.
OpenStreetMap
10. Creative Commons
Open Data Commons
Datenlizenz Deutschland
GeoNutzV
GeoLizenz Open
Licences for Open Data
11. Geodata and Privacy
Why privacy is relevant
• Business models with high-resolution spatial data (eg,
high-resolution aerial images, risk areas, monument data,
cadastral data)
• personal data
• Damage impact for those affected
Data with privacy are usually not in Open Data portals.
12. Privacy - Solutions
Data protection for sensitive information receives appropriate
consideration:
when…
… there is a clear definition of the data that needs no restrictions,
… technical measures support the anonymization of sensitive data (e.g.
scale limitations, tilings, generalizations, ...)
… an examination of the legitimate interest takes place,
… a code of conduct / self-regulation is used to support the laws
13. Privacy - thresholds
It can be assumed that the legitimate interests of interested parties are
not affected if:
The data with a scale smaller than 1: 5,000 are represented (map
display)
The data are presented with a resolution, equal or greater than 20 cm
per pixel (e.g. satellite bzw.- aerial image information.)
The data are shown on a gridded surface equal or a larger than
100 x 100 m,
The data are presented aggregated across at least four households.
14. Privacy - thresholds
• Tiling 1x1 km with indexed signatures as preliminary information
• Parcel sharp information access only with a legitimate interest
15. GeoBusiness Code of Conduct (CoC)
Pledge „GeoBusiness and Privacy“ (CoC)
(Selbstverpflichtungserklärung)
• Use of data of public authorities by
private parties
• Voluntary participation by companies
• Privacy-compliant implementation of
business processes with sensitive
geospatial data
• Germany-wide uniform and harmonized
standard
• Simplifying recurring data collection
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