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I knew I was falling so behind - the Department of Statistics Malaysia apparently has an official dataset of administrative boundaries... maybe time to write something asking them if it's okay to use these precious data to improve OSM (their website says all published data in their repo is open source - licensing is holy moly legalese beast)

10 Aug 2023 at 13:09 | Open on en.osm.town
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Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

@AkuAnakTimur I would be surprised if they didn't permit this, every other country is working with OSM (although UK has its own Ordnance Survey, a lot of govt websites now use OSM maps)

10 Aug 2023 at 13:26 | Open on social.tchncs.de
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@AkuAnakTimur
Too many flavors of "open source" these days, so may not necessarily compatible with OpenStreetMap ODbL, but the good thing is, if that is actually the case, you can still ask for a waiver or exception. 🤞

10 Aug 2023 at 23:18 | Open on social.tchncs.de
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@AkuAnakTimur
In the case of the Philippines, some of the published government data is referred to as "open data", but because specifics of local law actually are incompatible with ODbL , and so we need to ask for written waiver/exceptions, if we want to use them with OSM. We've been successful with some government agencies, but not all.

I suppose, the biggest example for this car our community is the #OSMaPaaralan school mapping project osm.org/wiki/Philippines/OSMaP

@AkuAnakTimur
In the case of the Philippines, some of the published government data is referred to as "open data", but because specifics of local law actually are incompatible with ODbL , and so we need to ask for written waiver/exceptions, if we want to use them with OSM. We've been successful with some government agencies, but not all.

10 Aug 2023 at 23:28 | Open on social.tchncs.de
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