OpenStreetMap
open data ecosystem between opportunities
and legal conundrums
Maurizio Napolitano
Open Data Institute – Trento Node
FBK

Open Data in Transition:
Intellectual property, competition, and regulatory issues
Thursday 19 th December 2013, Trento Italy
http://unitn.it/economia/evento/32719/open-data-in-transition
openstreetmap.org
The project
OpenStreetMap is a
free editable map
of the whole
planet.
It is made by people
like you.

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http://www.openstreetmap.org
The story

http://visual.ly/moments-history-openstreetmap

Now 1.200.000 contributors
How contribute

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Beginners%27_guide
The five steps
The resources of OpenStreetMap

people
The resources of OpenStreetMap
tools

(by a presentation of Niccolo Rigacci – http://www.rigacci.org - CC-BY-SA-NC)
Map Features
(tags)

source: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:public_transport

node

way

relation

More info:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Deprecated_features
Data Entry 1/3
Web editor iD
Data Entry 2/3
Data Entry 3/3

http://fieldpapers.org/atlas.php?id=5m28s2kf#17/46.06626/11.11872
Some outputs ...

http://mc.bbbike.org/mc/?
lon=11.11905&lat=46.06634&zoom=18&num=2&mt0=mapnik&mt1=google-map
Watercolor by Stamen

http://content.stamen.com/files/cartography/index_watercolor.html#17.60/46.06649/11.11834
3D WebGL

http://maps.f4-group.com/#lon=11.1516949&lat=46.0673271&zoom=19
Humanitarian uses

http://hot.openstreetmap.org
Software based on OpenStreetMap

navfree
orienteering
http://oobrien.com/oom/

osmand

mapOSMatic

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/List_of_OSM_based_Services

4maps.eu
Komoot
From data to things
OpenStreetMap best example
History of the license

2005

2009
Licensing Working Group

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Why CC-BY-SA is Unsuitable
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Combining CC BY-SA with Other Data
Share-Alike
Uncertainty and doubt over extent of derived work
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osm

Which license?
layer of closed data

Which license for the map?

osmf need is to enforce copyright on the database only
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Why_CC_BY-SA_is_Unsuitable
Solution: ODbL
http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/

Permission

Restriction

December 2009
55% of eligible members have voted, and 89% of those
who voted have voted yes.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Why_You_Should_Vote_Yes

19 September 2012 OSM CHANGED THE LICENSE
http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/09/11/change-to-odbl-imminent/

http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms
Is always share a like license

http://www.agenziamobilita.roma.it/servizi/open-data/
OpenStreetMap and
italian Public Administration

… some stories ...
The relationship with the public administration
The italian case of the license “Ad Simonem”

Allow me to import your data in
OpenStreetMap with a special
authorization

In most the cases these administrations don't distribute their data as open data
Some consequences

...
Now we understand the
importance of the open data and
we plan to change the license

Portale Cartografico Nazionale
(some false statements)
you are selling data on eBay!!!
our server is under attack!!!
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-it/2010-May/016091.html
Import Guidelines

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines
Lesson lerned from Kibera

MAKING THE INVISIBLE VISIBLE
Some data collected by the mappers
swimming pools (privacy?)
Illegal horse tracks

http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/1Oc
http://cortesi.com/2010/02/mapping-illegal-horse-tracks-with-openstreetmap/
Thanks

For contacts:
Twitter: @napo
Blog: http://de.straba.us
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Email: napo@fbk.eu

OpenStreetMap open data ecosystem between opportunities and legal conundrums