The following is a list of potential datasources. Some of these are already in use, or have been imported fully. Others are under investigation, and some have been rejected (details of rejections are on here too). There are basically two criteria:

Licenses - We are only interested in 'free' data. In fact we must be able to release their data with our OpenStreetMap License. This means it's OK to use Public Domain data; for other sources, please check license compatibility.

Accuracy/Quality - All GIS data is limited in terms of accuracy and coverage of features. Some datasources are very basic. Because of our wiki style map building approach, this isn't necessarily a problem. We could import it anyway, and improve it later. However there are limits to this reasoning, it does for example require active OSM community members for the area affected. Also in areas where we already have superior coverage through other means, we will not be interested in importing lower quality data. For example a low accuracy map of the main roads of London, is actually useless to us, whereas similar coverage of an unmapped city would be useful.

With these criteria in mind, look at the following, see if there are license issues and if they are useful to us or we can collaborate, and mail the Mailing lists with results.

Listing datasources here is only the first stage in a careful investigation/planning process for imports. If you're interested in performing imports please be aware:

Datasources which we have imported should also go on the Import/Catalogue. We also have a list of Related Projects

General

Out-of-copyright mapping

See separate page on out-of-copyright maps.

Dispatch centres

Many transportation companies (Taxi, delivery, courier services) are using GPS units in their vehicles either to track them in real time in their dispatching centre or just for logging. It should be in their interest to provide their GPS tracks in order to improve the maps in their areas of operation. Taxis should effectively cover a city fast, while lorries and such are probably better for longer distances. Already using Ecourier tracks.

Global Coverage

MapSwipe project

MapSwipe projects is part of the OpenStreetMap community. The goal is high-quality geographical data, freely accessible and available to everyone. OSM’s reciprocal license protects the data from being appropriated by services that do not share back to OSM.

MapSwipe is released under a "liberal" non-reciprocal license (Creative Commons Attribution). This only requires that users acknowledge the source. You can do whatever you want with the data, just make sure to credit the MapSwipe contributors.

Project is managed by Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology at Heidelberg University (HeiGIT gGmbH)

World Port Index (position and data of harbours worldwide)

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency WPI - © COPYRIGHT 2015 BY THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT NO COPYRIGHT CLAIMED UNDER TITLE 17 U.S.C.

Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection (contains Army Map Service Topographic Map Series)

The CIA World DataBank

The CIA World DataBank II is a collection of world map data, consisting of vector descriptions of land outlines, rivers, and political boundaries. It was created by the U.S. government in 1986. Hence it should be under public domain, since the files haven't changed since. There's roughly 1.8 million shape points in Europe and N.A.

GPX files can be created from the CIA World DataBank with the Perl script at

There is now an 0.5-compatible import script for OSM at [2]. Please document your upload progress on WikiProject_Import_WDB.

GEOnet Names Server

Main page GEOnet Names Server

This database contains 5.5 million geo features (mainly place names). It's updated monthly by the agency.

'about' page states

"There are no licensing requirements or restrictions in place for the use of the GNS data. However, we recommend using the following citation to identify the GNS as a source ...

The data is messy and with spelling mistakes and strange historical name entries. Accuracy is also poor. We have imported GNS data in some countries, usually where mapping is not progressing massively anyway. This hasn't been carried out systematically at a global level.

Geonames.org (Rejected)

Main page: Geonames

This is a "wiki" style name server at geonames.org which claims to release data with an open license, however it uses various unfree datasources, and pinpoints locations on an unfree google map. It therefore does not meet the strict requirements of OSM

We do use the dataset for Search however

The Map Library

The Map Library is a source of public domain basic map data concerning administrative boundaries in developing countries. The format of available data is Map Maker DRA, ESRI Shape file or MapInfo MIF.

In addition to the Map Library data they also are hosting a copy of version 0.9 of the Global Administrative Areas database of the BioGeoMancer project, but:

Note: The administrative areas dataset is licensed under a noncommercial creative commons license, so it cannot be used in OpenStreetMap. [3]

The homepage is http://www.maplibrary.org/

OpenGeoDB

OpenGeoDB was started as a German project for places within Germany, extended to Austria, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Belgium by now. Initial data was derived from GEOnet Names Server, but has been extended by postal area codes, population, governmental structure etc.

The data is public domain and can be used without any limitations.

The homepage is http://opengeodb.de

Dumps are released on sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/opengeodb/

Data can be edited and downloaded any time via http://fa-technik.adfc.de/code/opengeodb.pl

The Berkeley BioGeo gData set

See Berkeley_BioGeo_data for more details of this many-country database. It concerns ESRI compatible free data, in which free needs to be examined. It is presumed that ESRI compatible files can be converted into OSM formats, even when ESRI itself is a company. Is a dataformat leading to a problem with licenses? Orwall 24 Jan 2008

This data set uses a blanket CC-BY-NC-SA. The NC part makes it incompatible with OSM. Individual parts of the database have additional restrictions, and there may be an overall database right being infringed. We may need to look at purging what has already been imported. Chriscf 09:10, 21 October 2008 (UTC) I'll investigate the part containing global administrative areas (but called GADM). It seems to be very useful, because administrative boundaries are missing for large parts of the world. One table in the geodatabase (MS Access) contains information on copyright for every country. I'll try to contact one of the persons at Berkeley, and ask if they agree to lift the NC restriction for OSM. --Fsteggink 16:32, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

Shoreline databases

There are several freely available datasets for coastlines. For paths running along cliff tops you wouldn't want to trust your life to any of this data - but for the purposes of giving you a plausible landmass to draw maps on they're all useful. See Proposed features/Coastline

Prototype Global Shoreline

See the main page on PGS

Our script for importing into the OSM database is "Almien coastlines (PGS)"

GSHHS - Global Self-consistent Hierarchical High-resolution Shoreline

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html

Import script is at Almien coastlines (GSHHS), but is not being used in favour of PGS.

GSHHS is a database of lakes and shorelines of the world, resolution of 200m produced in 1996. Delivered with source, written in C, and the PD database. They are also available as shapefiles. Tends to give more accurate coastlines than VMAP0 outside of the US (for some reason VMAP0 seems more accurate for the US). There are issues with inland water (such as the great lakes) though.

(The above info appears slightly incorrect: according to the README the last update was in 2004. It was generated from the CIA WDBII and the WVS).

VMAP0

US department of defence vector map (contains far more than just coastlines, but can be rather "coarse". Also known as Digital Chart of the World. See Wikipedia.

World Vector Shoreline

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coast/wvs.html

Claims, 1:250,000 scale use, seems pretty accurate at least for the GB and Ireland

EVS Islands (Data Dependent)

Based upon different landsat images, some comparisons are made against PGS, and there are also maps traced from Google Earth imagery. He makes very beautiful maps of all the islands of the world. http://evs-islands.blogspot.com

SWBD - Shuttle radar topography mission Water Body Data.

ftp://e0srp01u.ecs.nasa.gov/srtm/version2

Derived from the SRTM digital elevation model. Newer than the rest, potentially more accurate.

From the README: SRTM data are distributed in two levels: SRTM1 (for the U.S. and its territories and possessions) with data sampled at one arc-second intervals in latitude and longitude, and SRTM3 (for the world) sampled at three arc-seconds. Three arc-second data are generated by three by three averaging of the one arc-second samples.

For reference: one arc-second at the equator is 30metres. For the US this means around 18m accuracy, but for elsewhere it's pretty bad. At the latitude of Brussels it would be about 60metres accuracy. For any latitude l, 1 arc-second of longitude is about 30 metres multiplied by cos(l).

The SWBD data is derived from this and claims one-arc second accuracy worldwide, though only lakes greater than 200m are included.

Converting SRTM into OSM format can be done with Srtm2Osm.

Earth Observing Laboratory NCAR.

EOL provides state-of-the-art atmospheric observing systems and support services to the university-based research community for climate and weather research. Most of it is free(?)

Unless I misunderstand the OSM license, this quote from Prohibited Uses on the NCAR terms page would seem to indicate data cannot be used without a special wavier being granted by them for the possibility of their data being used in a work that is sold. Other conditions may apply too. Data from here should wait until the new OSM licensing is decided so that we don't have to risk them not agreeing to the new requirements after data under the old agreement has been imported.

"Use that is inconsistent with UCAR's non-profit status and mission. UCAR is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization and, as such, is subject to specific federal, state, and local laws regarding sources of income, political activities, use of property, and similar matters. As a result, commercial use of this Site or the Materials for non-UCAR purposes is generally prohibited. Requests for exception to this should be directed to ipinfo@ucar.edu." Rjhawkin 09:35, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

ICEDS European Data Server

The ICEDS server is hosted and run from UCL with the aim of serving high-resolution global and continental data. One of the nicest things about the site is its ease of use - you view an area and then click a button to download the relevant data (SRTM, Geological Maps, Landsat 5 & 7, etc). The site is also an exercise in Open Standards and is fully compliant with the OGC's WMS, WFS standards - meaning that a variety of external data sources (Weather and bathymetry for example) can be overlaid with the click of a button (Why not OSM data?). In common with OSM it is also based on an Open source principle - Map Server on Apache on Linux.

Two things I particularly like about the site:

Extensive use of Java-Script embeds a lot of features onto the page. Try out the "Flicker" and "Swipe" tools and the drop down menus for downloading SRTM data.

The near realtime (15 minute delay I think) Global Clouds layer.

hostip.info Geolocation data

http://www.hostip.info/ has a geolocation database. Geolocation means mapping from IP address to location. It's a neat trick, although the accuracy is obviously quite variable (try it on the site there) We could try to use this to jump to the user's home town, rather than the default world map, when a visitor enters the openstreetmap.org homepage. Might fun, or it might just be confusing when it gets it wrong.

Ip Global Positioning (Unfree)

http://www.ipgp.net will show a map with the location of an IP address. In some cases it will show the location of Internet Service Provider, but you can still make an idea.

DAFIF

Defense Aeronautical Flight Information File. Published by the US Department of Defense, lists pretty much every airport runway worldwide. Apparently, they're going to be removing the dataset from public domain in October 2006. This is used to populate the scenery databases for Flightgear flight simulator and X-Plane. Whilst the dataset is still being kept updated in the public domain, I'll work out an import to Openstreetmap of the runways and taxiways. Welshie 09:51, 25 Jun 2006 (UTC)

ourairports.com

ourairports.com is a replacement for some of the DAFIF data, put into in the public domain.

Other (partial) DAFIF replacements

APRS data

Many Amateur radio operators have GPS receivers connected to packet radio transmitters and transmit their location in a standard format known as APRS (including fixed stations, weather stations, and mobile stations) on standard frequencies from which the data can be picked up and is injected into a internet infrastructure APRS-IS. The infrastructure includes databases APRSWorld, OpenAPRS, and a substantial supporting body of open source software (which would make it simple to set up a database to selectively mine internet feeds for data coming from mobile stations that are likely to be traveling on roads). APRS data does have some intrinsic limitations - positions are usually transmitted on 5-10 minute intervals, and a widely used non-compressed format limits the precision of latitude and longitude to 0.01 minute (see the APRS protocol specification for details). Given the origin of APRS data as Amateur radio transmissions, they are likely to be in the public domain.

APRS is more a use specific data point. A potential problem is that some APRS stations are not following a land based track. I know of several APRS devices mounted to weather balloons, hot air balloons, regular and RC aircraft, or boats. There is no requirement to indicate to a third party what use your APRS station is being put to when it transmits a packet.Rjhawkin 09:52, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

Placeopedia (rejected)

The guys who gave us Pledgebank made placeopedia as well, it's a way to use Google maps to geo reference wikipedia articles. The database is held separately from the wikipedia one, and can be accessed with rss, xml and kml feeds from their site.

It says it is available under a Creative Commons license, but not which one.

This has been discussed on the mailing list, and the consensus is that Placeopedia is a derivative work of Google Maps. Although it's very unlikely to be challenged by Google Maps / Teleatlas, it's not suitable for use in OpenStreetMap (https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2005-October/001212.html is one of many relevant posts, and a good summary of the argument).

SALB

"The Second Administrative Level Boundaries (SALB) dataset is a dataset aiming at improving the availability of information about administrative boundaries down to the second subnational level. The SALB dataset forms part of the UN geographic database and was developed in the context of the United Nations Geographic Information Working Group (UNGIWG)."

SALB





True Marble imagery (Unearthed Outdoors)

Full color global imagery, built from the best available Landsat scenes which have been chosen to optimize vegetation quality and to reduce the cloud cover. These orthorectified scenes were fed into proprietary, advanced, color adjustment algorithms to produce true color imagery while reducing atmospheric haze. This imagery was optimized to produce the most natural color while maintaining a high local contrast and dynamic range, resulting in a significant improvement over similar products.

A reduced resolution of the True Marble™, Global True Marble™, is available for free download. This dataset can be used to preview pending purchases, or for any other usage. We only ask that copyright be attributed to Unearthed Outdoors when reproduced.

Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

http://www.unearthedoutdoors.net/global_data/true_marble/download

World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) (Rejected)

http://www.wdpa.org/Default.aspx

"The World Database on Protected Areas is a foundation dataset for conservation decision making. It contains crucial information from national governments, non-governmental organizations, academic institutions, international biodiversity convention secretariats and many others. It is used for ecological gap analysis, environmental impact analysis and is increasingly used for private sector decision-making...."

WDPA data use email request

Ramsar Wetland Sites

The data included in the database derives from the Ramsar Information Sheet, the Ramsar National Report and/or from Administrative Authority correspondence provided by Contracting Parties. This includes information on wetland types, land uses, threats, hydrological values of the sites etc. The Ramsar Sites Database is primarily a tool to look at Ramsar Sites across geographic and thematic boundaries, useful and necessary for maintaining an overview of a global network of well over 1700 internationally important wetlands from 158 countries.

OpenCellID cell

http://www.opencellid.org/

http://wiki.opencellid.org

OpenCellID is the biggest open source data for CellIDs (GPS positions of cell towers), and provides an API to both

- gather data of newly discovered cell towers

- locate a cell phone or tracking device using cell tower positions

Source code is provided under a GPL license, while data is collected under a Creative Commons Share Alike license V3.0

Plans exist to support Wifi/Bluetooth positioning.

see also: OpenCellID

OpenBmap cell and wifi access points

http://realtimeblog.free.fr/

openBmap is a free and open map of wireless communicating objects (e.g. cellular antenna, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth). It provides tools to mutualize data, create and access this map.

Data is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license, and is currently provided as a static download, updated regularly.

The site owners intend to create an api, which could allow regular, scripted updates to the data. Alternatively, it could be suggested that they adopt their site/software, to upload data direct to osm

see also: openBmap

CODATA Roads Data Catalog

A catalog of roads data sets, globally, compiled by the gRoads project. There are hundreds of data sets listed here (many probably already investigated), under all sorts of licensing schemes. There are certainly data sets new to the OSM community that are worth investigating.

The interim PDF is posted at Media:CODATA_Roads_Data_Catalog_v1.pdf

There are possible plans to post this database to the web, with query front end.

United Nations Laws Of the Sea

The UN DOALOS have a database over all maritime border claims. There is no apparent license on the data and this is the borders definitions. But the database is a database of different PDF files with coordinates of baselines and territorial borders. The text has to be parsed by hand and other maritime borders needs to be calculated from the baseline (see maritime borders). Data is to be tagged with source = UNCLOS

Freebase

Though the two projects have significant overlap and are both Creative Commons, they are [ http://wiki.freebase.com/wiki/License_compatibility#Compatible_licenses_for_structured_data incompatible]. Freebase.com is licenced under CC-BY. The biggest hurdle in using OSM data within Freebase has been the OSM share-alike license. All the data in Freebase is available under a CC-BY (attribution only) license, allowing anyone to use the data in any way they want as along as they acknowledge Freebase. The main difference between the licenses is that the Freebase CC-BY license does not impose a share-alike requirement on users of the data.

That said, the OSM community is currently voting on an updated license which could make collaboration between the two data sets much easier in the future (for more information see: Open_Database_License)

In spite of the licence conflict, simply linking these resources together wouldn't be a problem.

we could connect relations to locations

/en/buenos_aires

/relation/369450

and connect osm'samenity nodes (or 'points of interest'). both databases for example, have a mount sinai hospital-

osm @ /node/42606735

freebase @ /guid/9202a8c04000641f800000000039b682

List of Marine Lights

NGA List of lights is a database of lights, radio, and fog signals. It contains almost all lights on the world and is published by the US Nationional Geospatiol Intelligency Agency which may have a useful copyright permission.

The database could be querying online and return information in HTML, JSON, XML and CSV.

Information is also published as PDF documents and we have already parsed them into an OSM appropriate format.

The tags used for imported are planned to be the OpenSeaMap proposed seamark:*=* ones.

EC-JRC built-up areas / density of building from Bing

See EC-JRC built-up areas from_Bing

This is partially a follow-up to this thread: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports/2011-June/000987.html

We (the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission) have developed a set of scripted tools to extract built-up areas, built-up density, and location of human settlements from (very) high resolution satellite imagery. The result is quite reliable and our methodology has been warmly received by the remote sensing community. Part of the methodology is described in this paper: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/srchabstract.jsp?tp=&arnumber=5764726

The Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth

http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/

Photographes taken by astronauts from International Space Station. There is about 25 000 000 photos.

Conditions for Use

source = Image courtesy of the Image Science & Analysis Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center - MissionID-RollID-FrameID

US Dept. of State, International Boundaries

From the Office of the Geographer and Global Issues (INR/GGI), we are free to use these international boundary lines (attribute = 1), other lines of international separation (disputed lines; attribute = 3) and other lines of separation (attribute = 7.) They reflect US govt. policy and thus not necessarily de facto control. This data set is in the public domain; no restrictions on its use.

The most recent edition (December 2015: "LSIB6b") is available at http://www.data.gov/ by searching for large scale international boundaries.



The lines are produced and regularly updated by geographers at State and colleagues from other agencies based on imagery, old treaties/maps, and other sources. For most of Europe and the U.S., the lines are not particularly accurate; accurate data for these areas are widely available via other sources. This "Large Scale International Boundary (LSIB)" line data as well as polygons are also available at http://geocommons.com/search?model=&query=LSIB, though there may be some issues with the processing in GeoCommons.

GLIMS Glacier Database

Main page GLIMS Glacier Database

A database of glacier outlines with a global (although incomplete) coverage.

Hosted and maintained by the NSIDC, licensed as public domain.

Natural Earth

See their website.

SimpleGeo

A POI dataset (60M, global coverage) that was opensourced after SimpleGeo was acquired by another company.

Open Charge Map

This is a worldwide database of electric vehicle charging stations. It is mostly open source but with some imported data from third-parties but the data is segregated. It has about 27,000 locations currently listed. The data is mostly community sourced and maintained.

See OCM Web Site

See Open Charge Map for further details.

Esri Community Maps AOIs

This is a worldwide dataset with vector feature data for special areas of interest (AOIs) that have been contributed using the Esri Community Maps Editor app. The data that is reviewed and accepted by Esri is included in Esri basemaps and also made available to export for use in other maps. The dataset currently includes about 150,000 features of various types, including buildings, streets, parking lots, landscape areas, and points of interest. The data is provided under a CC BY license with explicit waiver for use in OpenStreetMap. Selected layers (e.g. buildings) could be exported from the dataset and made available for use in OSM editing to save time in re-creating these features from scratch.

See Esri Community Maps AOIs for more details.





Local data

Argentina

IDERA (Spatial Data Infrastructure of the Argentinian Republic)

Visualizator

IGN (National Geographic Institute)

MAPEAR (Unfree)

Nothing in the project MAPEAR should be used since their license is not compatible. Although their maps are free as in beer they are not free as in speech.

Austria

geoland.at

geoland.at is an effort to bundle GIS data from the Bundesländer (federal states). They state [5] that usage of graphics/information within the scope of publications / websites is only permitted provided that the "© Geoland" and the source reference www.geoland.at are given.

geoimage.at

geoimage.at provides a free WMS for whole Austria since October 2010 in 1m resolution (for the time being, they will provide it for the duration of 2 years). Details of the legal situation are still to be worked out, but employees of geoimage.at said, that they definitely are willing to cooperate with OpenStreetMap. Please note, that the WMS is in a special Lambert-projection and (until now) cannot be directly used in any editor without having changed some settings. See WikiProject_Austria/geoimage.at for details.

Vienna

Upper Austria

Linz Open Data

Styria

The local government of Styria provides GIS data on their website [6]. According to the website the data available for download is freely usable "frei verwendbar" (free as in speech) provided their copyright notice "Quelle: GIS-Steiermark" (which would translate to: "Source: GIS-Styria") is preserved. The data covers roads, rivers, cities and political territories. It is available in EsriShape format. Maybe the government of Styria would be willing to relicense their data under CC terms.

OpenAddresses.at

OpenAddresses.at was a crowd-based effort to collect geo-referenced address data in Austria. It seems to no longer exist but was originally a database available for download under an open license. An oa2osm script was created to convert the data for import.

Australia

see also Australian Data Imports and Australian Data Catalogue

ACT - GDA94/AHD) (Unfree)

This only covers the ACT (Australian Capital Territory), which is only a few 100km sq.

http://www.ga.gov.au/nmd/products/digidat/100k.htm

Currency: 2005.

Coordinates: Geographical.

Datum: Geocentric Datum of Australia (GDA94), Australian Height Datum (AHD).

Format: ESRI Personal Geodatabase Version 8.3, ESRI Shapefile, MapInfo mid/mif and ER Mapper Compressed Wavelet (ECW) Raster.

Medium: Online Download (free) or Packaged CD-ROM ($99).

Belgium

See WikiProject Belgium/Mapping resources.

Bolivia

GeoBolivia

Data under Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL), although it requires citing the source (which can be done as source=geo.gob.bo).

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The United States Geological Survey has made 1:50000 topographical maps of Balkan peninsula countries. These maps are US Federal Government works and are in the public domain in the USA (see copyright statement here: [7]) and probably in most other countries of the world. The maps are provided as PDF-files from The University of Texas Libraries here. Not all maps have been scanned so far, but at least significant parts of the Former Yugoslavian countries, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, Serbia and Slovenia are available (coverage: [8]).

The WikiProject Croatia (osm-hr) project have converted the PDF-files in the slippy map format such that the maps can easily be used as backgrounds in JOSM or Potlatch 2. Be careful since some parts of the maps are old and might also have a significant wrong offset.

JOSM: Go to Edit, Preferences, WMS TMS. Add a TMS-source and specify the URL: http://tms.osm-hr.org/1.0.0/all_ustopo/{zoom}/{x}/{y}.png

Potlatch 2: Go to Background, Edit and insert the line: http://tms.osm-hr.org/1.0.0/all_ustopo/$z/$x/$y.png

Thanks to Janko for posting this information ([9]), to dodobas for geocoding the PDFs, to hbogner at the Faculty of Geodesy in Zagreb and of course to the US Federal government for creating the maps!

Brazil

Suitable sources

IBGE Stated to be public domain data [10], although it requires citing the source (which can be done as source = IBGE )

Projeto Geominas (dead link) Public domain data (citation needed) on Minas Gerais state. Created by the state government, includes geographical, administrative and climatic data.

Águas Paraná Created by the state of Paraná this data is allowed to use (citation needed) if it's tagged with source = Águas Paraná

DNIT Confirmed to be PD by email, citation needed, source = DNIT

Uncertain sources

Other public and governmental sources - Much of the geographical and statistical data from Federal, state and municipal sources is believed to be under public domain, although no law affirms that (see Wikipédia). One possibility is to proceed on a case-by-case basis: to contact any potential sources, inform about OSM, and ask directly for a statement as to whether the data is free/open/PD.

Any other map or source available under unknown licensing terms.

Unsuitable sources

Tracksource (tracksource.org.br - Released under CC-BY-NC-ND, therefore incompatible with OSM license due to restrictive distribution for commercial proposes as well as for derivative works. See the bottom of TrackSource about page.

Any other map or source available under restrictive licenses.

Canada

Federal (Open Government)

Canadian Open Government Licence has been approved as compatible with ODbL by the Licence Working Group (LWG). The different products offered under prior licences (GeoBase, CanVec, GeoGratis, Statistic Canada, …) are now available under the new licence. All available products can be obtained from the Open Government Portal. Numerous datasets are available but searching for them is very messy. The location of these products (http ...) changes regularly. Therefore, the portal is still the best place to go. Search parameters to use in their Portalare identified below for some interesting datasets.

Select Organization: Natural Resources Canada

Search for: Building Footprints



Select Organization: Statistic Canada

Search for: Building Footprints

See The_Open_Database_of_Buildings wiki page.

Road Network

Select Organization: Statistics Canada

Search for: National Road Network



Rail Network

Select Organization: Natural Resources Canada

Search for: National Rail Network



Hydrographic Network

Select Organization: Natural Resources Canada

Search for: National Hydro Network - NHN - GeoBase Series



Topographic maps

Select Organization: Natural Resources Canada

Search for: Topographic Data of Canada - CanVec Series



The original CanVec datasets are still available in OSM format. See the canvec wiki page for further details.

Provincial

GeoBC Data Delivery Service

GeoBC Home Page Data Download Tool

Land Information Ontario

40 datasets are available see Land Information Ontario

Regional

Region of Peel, ON

http://opendata.peelregion.ca/terms-of-use.aspx - the region's license is a modified version of the UK Government's Open Government License for Public Sector

Unsure if compatible with OSM --Kevo 18:58, 6 October 2012 (BST)

Regina

http://openregina.cloudapp.net/ Open Government data for the City of Regina

One user has already uploaded bus stops & routes

Other published data includes addresses (nodes), communities, subdivisions, rail and pathways

City is confirming ownership of building shape data and will make it available if permitted.

Toronto

Toronto Open Data was confirmed as usable by OSM with suitable attribution on 2012-02-13 by city employee Reham Gorgis in the DataTO Google Group.[2] --Scruss (talk) 15:20, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Montreal QC

The city of Montreal (Quebec) has a dedicated website for open data sources provided by its departments, the data is licensed under the Creative Commons CC-BY 4.0 and has an explicit permission for OSM import.

Vancouver BC

The City of Vancouver has data available. See Canada Import Status

Nanaimo BC

The City of Nanaimo has made the data available see talk list for details

Halifax Regional Municipality

Halifax Regional Municipality Open Data Catalogue has a bunch of map data sets, released under a non-OSM compatible licence.

Active Travelways

Building Footprints

Building Types

Catchbasins

Civic Adresses

Dry Hydrants

Fire Hydrant

HRM Park Recreation Features

Intersection Points

Parks

Street Centre Lines

Trails





Winnipeg MB

Winnipeg Open data website: data.winnipeg.ca; Open Government Licence – Winnipeg[11]

Winnipeg Transit Open Data Web Service: api.winnipegtransit.com; Open Data Commons PDDL[12]; Terms of Use[13]

See also Winnipeg#Open data

Airdrie AB

The City of Airdrie GIS Department has a number of datasets available under an Open Data Licence

Calgary AB

Calgary has an Open Data Portal with an Open Government Licence

Central Africa

WRI Forest Atlases

World Resources Institute has liberated data from its Forest Atlas for

Cameroon,

Central African Republic,

Democratic Republic of Congo,

Equatorial Guinea,

Gabon and

Republic of Congo

covering Conservation, Exploitation, Forest Allocation, Forest Infrastructure, Administrative Units, Habitat, Agriculture, Hydrography, Mining, Vegetation under ODbL license

Cameroon

INC

Institut National de Cartographie:

Raster data for North and Far North of Cameroon has been liberated under ODbL license.

NASPW

The National Advanced School of Public Works (NASPW)

Has made available some data in the project GeoCameroun. Data produced by students from 2010 to 2012 on Yaoundé.

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

Congo (Dem. Rep.)RGC

Référentiel Géographique Commun (http://rgc.cd/):

les données du RGC sont libres d'utilisation mais nous vous demandons de citer les sources : « Ces données géographiques proviennent du Référentiel Géographique Commun (www.rgc.cd) ».

see here what is done and what not: Congo-Kinshasa#RGC

China (People's Republic of)

Data from the PRC government are legaly exempt of copyright restrictions. See Copyright in the PRC.

Colombia

Colombia passed an Open Data law in 2014, and since then some cities have made some really useful stuff available. Some of that is CC-By-SA, though, so we'll have to get permission to use it under the ODBL.

European Union

TMC LocationTables

The national LocationCodeLists of the TMC (Traffic Message System = traffic-jam warning via radio) -system contain a highly simplified road-network of all the major roads and many important points in the country. The location-codes themself are also highly useful to have in OSM for Routing -software that can receive TMC-messages and thus avoid traffic jams and other obstructions.

These lists are sometimes free to use, sometimes closed but due to the fact that they are widely distributed with all commercial navigation-systems, there may be little resistance in getting a permission to tag existing OSM-objects with their location-code or use the list to check for missing ways in our map.

European Environment Agency (EEA)

European Environment Agency offers data for commercial reuse. Here are potential GIS vector data to be imported:

Nationally designated areas (CDDA)

This is about nature conservation - protected areas:

national parks

nature parks

etc.

A shapefile is provided with latest data of 2011: CDDA_v9_polygons.zip

Via Alpina dataset on accommodation in the Alps

See https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Authorisation_ViaAlpina_OSM_accomodation.png

638 accommodation places, many attributes. Dataset in 5 languages. Example: http://www.via-alpina.org/point/1598

The origin (licence) and accuracy of the location is uncertain, so better to use the attributes only. Part of the data is already outdated, so it is advised to check first (maybe by calling). In Italy at least, the '0' (zero) after +39 is missing in the online phone numbers (but GSM lines do not have zeroes).

(Do not hesitate to contact me or the Via Alpina international secretary for more details Mayeul 18:03, 31 May 2012 (BST))

Finland

Maastotietokanta

The National Land Survey of Finland (NLS) has recently (1 May 2012) opened some of its dataset under an attribution only -licence. The amount of data available is enormous, and the local community is discussing the details.

digiroad

The Finnish Road Administration (Tiehallinto) maintains a database called digiroad covering all roads and streets in Finland which would contain all information OpenStreetMap needs about roads for Finland. (Shorelines, parks, amenities, boundaries, placenames, etc would still have to be collected using traditional OSM procedures.) The database is available for licensing relatively cheap, a few hundred euro. Unfortunately, as far as I can see, it is not currently licensed under terms suitable for OpenStreetMap. The English summary document says that "Data from Digiroad will be free-of-charge for public organisations for internal use and for free public services" but I couldn't find anything as promising in the more recent Finnish documentation.

However, my (naïve?) hope is that it will eventually be possible to convince them to "open up" the data enough for OpenStreetMap. Clearly digiroad is not maintained and sold for profit, there aren't even any royalty fees collected from commercial users of the data.

I mailed the project coordinator asking for more information. The coordinator had changed from that mentioned on their webpage to another person though, though, but I did eventually get a reply from her. Basically it was quite positive, but they need time to consider this. They also interpret current regulations as allowing them to sell (for the very reasonable amount) the material only to companies and institutions, not to individuals. Also the data should be used to benefit "services for transport and logistics" (badly translated from the vague term "liikkumisen palvelut"), but on the other hand, what else could it be used for? (Maybe the intent of this restriction is to prevent production of pure maps from the data. That would then indeed seriously prevent importing it into OSM, I think.)

I sent more mail asking for clarifications, pointing out that the price as such is not the issue here, surely it would be possible to collect for instance 20 euros per person from a group of interested individuals, or even ask some company to "sponsor" freeing this data. The licensing issues are the main concern. No further replies yet.

I hacked together some code to convert the sample data available from the website [14] (sorry, documentation in Finnish and Swedish only) into OSM format. See here: [15]. Plain C. Needs shapelib and iconv(), otherwise no external dependencies. Screenshot of part of sample data loaded into JOSM here: [16].

--Tml 09:33, 24 September 2007 (BST)

The Finnish page says that the licensing conditions are formed to match client requirements so it should be possible to get a good license. Then the only problem would be their fee (about €380) which mandated by law. --LH 15:11, 9 September 2007 (BST)

No fee anymore for Digiroad, and data is available currently from FTP server (need to request access still, though), and should be available from some "downloading service" by the end of this year. --Vessep (talk) 09:25, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Download service now open here, in Finnish only --Vessep (talk) 06:44, 29 September 2014 (UTC)

Reading the contract details, the licence gives you the right to use the data for a certain purpose for a maximum of 5 years. After the 5 year period the copy must be returned or destroyed. I recommend reading the example contract.

RHK

The Finnish Rail Administration possibly has exact geodata for all of the state-owned rail network. With rail deregulation being implemented and all, they seem to be quite open, and publish lots of information on the web, including a very detailled "Network Statement". Alas, this document doesn't include coordinates of stations etc, only the distance (down to one metre resolution) along the rails from the designated point of origin. (Trivia: this point of origin is the previous Helsinki station, 159m south of the present Helsinki Central station, and not actually accessible by rail.) I mailed then asking if the network geodata (and useful other information, like number of tracks and electrification) could be made available in some suitable format and could be donated to OSM. They didn't promise anything except that maybe in the next "Network Statement" they will include actual coordinates. So probably it doesn't make sense to wait for something that might not happen, but continue mapping rail lines as before.

They have an interactive web service that contains information for all level crossings in Finland. For many of the crossings coordinates are included (in the Finnish national KKJ grid, not WGS84, but conversion formulae are well-known) . From this service one could semi-mechanically generate an at least partially quite accurate (for those lines that have plenty of level crossings) map of the rail network. This might be interesting especially for freight-only lines where actual GPS mapping of course is hard to do (without actually trekking along the line). Data for one level crossing here: [17]. Their reply to my mail was a bit vague but I got the impression that it should be OK to import the level crossing locations. The location of an individual crossing is obviously not a copyrightable work, but as a collection it is covered by copyright for databases and collections.

--Tml 08:28, 25 October 2007 (BST)

City of Tampere

The City of Tampere has published a number of datasets (and plans to publish more) under an attribution-only license which might be compatible with our license. If it's not, they just might relicense the data for us under ODbL if we ask nicely.

Data that might be relevant here includes bus routes, bus stop locations, hiking paths, pier locations, statistical data and zoning area boundaries.

Addendum: This license is very similar to the MML (NLS) open data license, except instead of a share-alike provision, there is only an attribution provision - which may mean (disclaimer: IANAL) the data can be relicensed under ODbL. —Joemppe 00:11, 28 December 2012 (UTC)

City of Turku

Turku has opened quite a bit of data as CC-By 4.0 with an OSM waiver. Since OSM is otherwise reasonably good around here, but lacks lot of building address data, the address dataset is particularly interesting. --Ilmaisin (talk) 22:43, 15 December 2019 (UTC)

ODA Self care and digital value services

The Finnish National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL) maintains a registry for all public and private social and health care providers. The registry includes various information about the providers, such as their name and address. Interesting is also the type of the provider, indicating if the provider is a social services or health services provider, or both.

From this information one can using geocoding create a set of locations for the registered providers, including their type. Geocoding can be done using the Digitransit service that maintains data on OSM as well.

The registry is available on the Code Service licensed under CC BY 4.0. Written permission to use the data has been obtained. THL requires an attribution on the copyright page.

Public transport (GTFS) data sources

There are several public transport authorities in Finland providing stop, route and timetable information as open data, usually licensed CC-BY 4.0 and in GTFS format.

France

France has its own page: Potential Datasources/France.

Germany

Germany has its own wiki page

Greece

Geodata is the official governmental site that provides open geospatial data and services for Greece, serving as a national open data catalogue, an INSPIRE-conformant Spatial Data Infrastructure, as well as a powerful foundation for enabling value added services from open data.

Athens Urban Transport Organisation (AUTO) has released useful information under Creative Commons License (CC BY v.3.0) at http://geodata.gov.gr/en/dataset/oasa . Data is almost up to date, but it is clearly stated in the context that data is subject to change without any warning or liability of OASA (AUTO), OSY (Road Transportation) or STASY (Railway Transportation). Moreover "the data accuracy is limited, because digitalization hasn't been based on descriptive data". Be aware that real bus stop positions may vary between ±20m. in urban areas and more that 50m. in suburban areas.

The files available as downloads on this site are in .XML, .shp, .gml & .KML formats. No CSV files are available, you'll have to convert them yourself. The site is in Greek (language) so you'll have to use a translator service to make "lat & long" of the site. Easy enough to navigate if you know what you're looking for, otherwise not a particularly user friendly site. Amendment: OSM requirements are met.

Another valuable resource site hosting various databases for Greece is http://datahub.io/group/country-gr?page=1. A wide range of data-sets are available. Sources are varied, thus the available database file formats differ from set to set. File formats include .CSV, .KML, .XML, .shp, .gml & .ods. Each database has its own license, therefore no comment can be made about OSM requirements. The site is in English (language) & provides an efficient filter for various attributes. A downloading feature is available as is a preview of the relevant file. The original links are available which in most instances are hosted by Greek Government site mentioned earlier.

A site providing info regarding postcodes in Greece is http://www.elta.gr/en-us/findapostcode.aspx . The interface is not very helpful, because it is mainly an address name search engine, but if you are interested for a particular known address, it can precisely give you the corresponding postcode. The English version above accepts transliterated data (Greeklish). However, a native language version is also available at http://www.elta.gr/el-gr/εύρεσηταχκώδικα.aspx

Honduras

Administrative boundaries for Honduras are available at www.sinit.hn/index.php. This data is public domain.

India

Indian Village Boundaries http://projects.datameet.org/indian_village_boundaries/ (All our work will be under Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL). )

Italy

More information in the Italian page.

Agenzia del territorio

Lists containing street-names for all of the italian municipalities, grouped by province, are available for download. For each street-name, the pertaining municipality is identified by its cadastral code (vecchio codice catastale). Check the list of italian cadastral codes for interpretation.

License need to be clarified. Helpful for quality assurance checks. Data might be partly outdated.

Istat

Italian Statistical Institute (ISTAT) has granted to OSM the use of the following data:

Administrative Borders: the shapefile provided contain the so called generalized borders , which are a simplified version of the official borders. The version dated 2001 has already been fully imported (more information on a dedicated page). Currently a new version dated 2008/12/31 is available.

, which are a simplified version of the official borders. The version dated 2001 has already been fully imported (more information on a dedicated page). Currently a new version dated 2008/12/31 is available. A list of geographical coordinates of Italian localities. Files and related information are made available by GFOSS from a dedicated page.

A list of Italian municipalities is also available for download.

Portale Cartografico Nazionale

For the whole of Italy there is a WMS server. In 2010 use of 2 WMS-layers for OSM was explicitly permitted (orthographic photos from 2006 for the whole of Italy and from 2008 covering only the regions Lazio and Umbria) (see authorization letter from the PCN). The rest of the information on the PCN is not free to use for OSM as of May 2010. For more information and instructions how to use the aerial imagery, please visit WikiProject_Italy/PCN in Italian language. These photos offer (almost) complete coverage and are much better aligned than Bing aerial, but Bing has higher resolution and is more up to date so if you want to use aerial imagery for mapping in Italy you should probably use both sources.

Post

A list of Italian postal codes is provided by the Free Software Foundation Europe. It includes the list of street-names for major cities.

Regione Autonoma Friuli-Venezia-Giulia

All of the data created and maintained by the Regional Administration

Regione Lombardia

Regione Lombardia has its own wiki page

Regione Piemonte

The Regione Piemonte has put data from their stock online at [18] These include a detailed DEM and the CTRN for the whole of Piemonte down to 1:10000 resolution. Some of the data are quite old, but potentially still extremely useful (e.g. for streams, toponyms). The data are under various CC licenses. No permission to use the data in OSM has yet been requested or given.

Regione Toscana

Over 150 layers are available through a public WMS service named Geoscopio. More details here: Toscana#GEOscopio_WMS.

Japan

Kadena Air Base

KSJ

National-Land Information Office, a section of National and Regional Planning Bureau(NRPB), Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport(MLIT), Japan, provides some geo data. http://nlftp.mlit.go.jp/ksj/

Licenses – IMPORTANT: KSJ IS PROHIBITED TO USE AFTER 2015 DUE TO THEIR LICENSE CHANGE Their terms of use is written in Japanese; a summary in English is as follows.

2-3. If you reproduce the National-Land Information or create derivative works, you must do a citation of the source (e.g., "「国土数値情報（○○データ） 国土交通省」", a literal translation, National-Land Numerical Information (XX Data), MLIT Japan ).

). 3-1. You may use the National-Land Information free of charge.

4. Disclaimer. MLIT Japan makes no warranty on your use of the National-Land Information.

Accuracy/Quality – Almost National-Land Numerical Information is based on "Map 25000" and "Map 50000" by Geographical Survey Institute (GSI) Japan. Files are in KSJ original format and datum is Japanese Geodetic Datum 2000 (JGD2000) which is based on ITRF94 and GRS80.

This is the old data of KSJ2 and it have some type of data which KSJ2 doesn't have, e.g. road, submarine cable and power line, cultural properties, etc.

KSJ2

Their license prohibit to use as business, so we cannot import KSJ2 data source.

http://nlftp.mlit.go.jp/ksj/

National-Land Information Office, a section of National and Regional Planning Bureau(NRPB), Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport(MLIT), Japan, provides some geo data. See KSJ2 page.

ISJ

National-Land Information Office, a section of NRPB, MLIT Japan, provides place reference information in city block level for many (not all) municipalities. http://nlftp.mlit.go.jp/isj/

Licenses – Their terms of use is written in Japanese; a summary in English is as follows.

2-3. If you reproduce the place reference information or create derivative works, you must do a citation of the source (e.g., "「街区レベル位置参照情報 国土交通省」", a literal translation, City Block Level Place Reference Information, MLIT Japan ).

). 3-1. You may use the place reference information free of charge.

4. Disclaimer. MLIT Japan makes no warranty on your use of the place reference information.

Accuracy/Quality – Place reference information is based on "Numerical Map 2500" by Geographical Survey Institute (GSI) Japan. Files are in CSV(Comma Separated Values) format, SHIFT-JIS encoding and datum is Japanese Geodetic Datum 2000 (JGD2000) which is based on ITRF94 and GRS80.

I guess we can use this data like CC-BY/CC-BY-SA data as imported before. -- Tatata 10:52, 25 February 2008 (UTC)

Orthophoto (MLIT Japan)

National-Land Information Office, a section of NRPB, MLIT Japan, provides aerial photography for old survey with WMS. Web (Japanese only)

Licenses – Their terms of use is written in Japanese; a summary in English is as follows.

2. Notices 3. If you republish the data or create derivative works, you must do a citation of the source (e.g., "「国土画像情報（オルソ化空中写真） 国土交通省」", a literal translation, National Land Imaginary Information (Orthophoto), MLIT Japan ). Recode information of the photograph's taken date, digitized date and the file name, and editors' names as long as possible.



3. availability Anyone is allowed to use national land information by free for charge, except fees for communication, etc. Read well this term of use. You needed to agree this term of use before you use it. If you use this information, you are regarded to agree the term of use.



4. Disclaimer MLIT Japan makes no warranty on your use of the place reference information.



5. Notes This term of use could be changed without any notices.



User:ikiya confirmed to the office that we can use the aerial photography to draw our map with the following annotations [19]:

source:ja = 国土画像情報（オルソ化空中写真）国土交通省

source = MLIT Japan

The URL of WMS:

We have got another confirmation for the first and the second derivative works form the orthophotos.[20] OpenStreetMap data directly generated from the orthophotos must show "国土画像情報（オルソ化空中写真）国土交通省" in the data browser of www.openstreetmap.org. The source tag is useful for it. Then, for the second derivative works, which means works derived form OpenStreetMap data, must show "(C) OpenStreetMap" and make a web link to https://www.openstreetmap.org/ . That is the same with Our License.

Lawson

Data provided by Lawson, Japan

Open Data Catalog Shizuoka

http://open-data.pref.shizuoka.jp/

It is called "Fuji-no-kuni Open Data Catalog" which is a nickname. The site is operated by Shizuoka prefecture, and data provided Shizuoka prefecture or cities in Shizuoka prefecture.

Licenses - CC BY 2.1 JP

Individual data is indicated to another page, Open Data Catalog Shizuoka. (in Japanese)

Luxembourg

Luxembourgish Open Data Platform

Most data is licensed as CC0.

Mexico

INEGI (Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía)

On september 2014 it was officially released the Normative for Open Data published by INEGI (Mexico’s Equivalent of USGS+US Census Bureau, or Brazil’s IBGE).

The release was published in the Official Gazette of the Federation, which is the main official government publication in Mexico. The importance of this is that the main rules and regulations of the three branches of the federal government are published on this Gazette. It’s a mandate that all official government rules and regulations to be published on it, and so only through this publication that compliance of any law in Mexico becomes mandatory. Once a law or regulation is published on this journal, ignorance of it is no longer a legal defense.

The terms of use for the information released by INEGI make that information open even for commercial use (with only the requirement of attribution, when technically feasible). This means anyone can use the geographic data released by this institute and import it to OpenStreetMap without incurring on any violation of a license, individuals and companies can use the information for any purpose as long as it follows the terms of use for open data issued by the Mexican government which means they should be released under the following terms:

Of the Open Data Attributes: I. Public.- Are made public in accordance with the Law of the System; II. Free.- can be obtained without giving any consideration in exchange; III. Nondiscriminatory.- The are accessible without access restriction to users; IV. Free use.- Shall cite the source as the only requirement to be used freely;

Sources:

Publication of the National Open Data law (Spanish) [21]

Terms of use for open data published on INEGI’s website(Spanish) [22]

Official release statement(Spanish): [23]

Publication of the National Geographic Information data law in the Official Gazette of the Federation: (Spanish) [24] [25]

Mozambique

The project "Consultancy Services for Upscaling Nature-Based Flood Protection in Mozambique’s Cities" of the world bank, mapped about 5000 houses in the city bounderies of Quelimane, which aren't indexed/ mapped jet. The data is available as ESRI Shapefile and would need reviewing. The license will be discussed with the world bank in the next days.

The Netherlands

See Bestaande geodata hergebruiken (Dutch).

New Zealand

See New Zealand for more potential sources.

GW-Projects (unfree)

Apparently a lot of free data is available in New Zealand. It has been used to create a comprehensive set of Garmin maps.

Legal stuff is at the bottom of this page: http://gwprojects.orcon.net.nz/gps/TM/tmmaps.html

Norway

See Norwegian import sources.

Poland

TERYT

TERYT is official government registry of administrative division of Poland. The public data contains names and identifiers for all voivodeships (provinces), powiats (counties), municipalities, places and even streets.

Licenses – public domain

Accuracy/Quality – This is the offical list of places, but it contains no geo location data. May be useful for quality assurance and updating is_in =* tags. More information (in Polish) at WikiProject Poland/Podział administracyjny

Portugal

National Sources

Any data belonging to INE - Instituto Nacional de Estatistica and BGRI - Base Geográfica de Referenciação da Informação were contacted and are stated to be freely available for OpenStreetMap as per INSPIRE directives as stated in an email.

Good morning, my apologies for the late reply to your email. I confirm that the geographic data set (CGD) for the Geographic Information Base (BGRI) is open data and that INE will have every interest in integrating them into the OSM database. This CGD is harmonized with the INSPIRE directive and published in the ATOM service http://inspire.ine.pt/SU/atom/downloadservice.xml

Regional Sources

Lisboa Municipality

Open data portal from Câmara Municipal de Lisboa (Lisbon municipality) offers a huge amount of useful georeferenced data, including 273 datasets subject to a "Creative Commons – Public Domain" license: http://dados.cm-lisboa.pt/ http://geodados.cm-lisboa.pt An Excel list of resources and supported formats is available here: http://dados.cm-lisboa.pt/dataset/catalogo-de-dados-lisboa-aberta

A page with guidelines to coordinate effords concerning imports from this source exists in this wiki.

Cascais Municipality

Cascais area SIG map Licence is confirmed with the town hall, there are no problems in using data from this site.

Rwanda (Republic of)

Ministry of the Interior and for Sports Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, has published a 1:300k raster map for whole Ruanda. The right to use the map for OSM was granted by Hanne Hall, Referatsleiterin, Entwicklungszusammenarbeit mit dem Partnerland Ruanda, MINISTERIUM DES INNERN, FÜR SPORT UND INFRASTRUKTUR, Schillerplatz 3-5, 55116 Mainz, Germany, on 20th July 2011.

20.07.2011 08:41

Betreff: AW: Ruandakarte und openstreetmap.org Sehr geehrter Herr Keller, vielen Dank für Ihre Anfrage. Ich habe Ihr Anliegen von der zuständigen Abteilung unseres Hauses klären lassen.

Danach spricht nichts gegen eine Verwendung unseres Kartenmaterials durch Open Street Map. Sofern Sie dies also veranlassen möchten, steht dem nichts im Wege. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Im Auftrag --

Hanne Hall

Referatsleiterin

Entwicklungszusammenarbeit mit dem Partnerland Ruanda

MINISTERIUM DES INNERN, FÜR SPORT UND INFRASTRUKTUR

Schillerplatz 3-5

55116 Mainz

South Africa

Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping of South Africa

Chief Directorate: Surveys and Mapping of South Africa has 1:50k raster maps available for the whole of South Africa, these maps are available using the South African Freedom of Information Act

The License Agreement is fairly restrictive from OSM's point of view. "No products may be copied or reproduced by any means, including digital, without prior permission."

"The Licensee shall not Commercialise the Data or any product or service derived from or incorporating the Data, unless it has first obtained the written consent of the CDSM. The CDSM may grant or refuse its consent in its absolute discretion and may grant its consent subject to any condition or conditions whatsoever."

Recently discussed here and here.

It is uncertain if the data is completely free/libré. Does the "Promotion of Access to Information Act" not grant this? Further investigation is needed.

Municipal Demarcation Board

Municipal Demarcation Board distributes shapefiles of South African provinces, districts and municipalities. Grant Slater has received permission to use the data in OpenStreetMap.

MadMappers (Data Dependent)

MadMappers seems to have a large amount of data covering the whole of Africa. It may be worth contacting them.

Spain

See Spain Potential Datasources for a more up-to-date information (in Spanish).

SIGPAC

One branch of the local government has a GIS-like application for controlling the rural land use, with a lot of excellent ortophotos: http://sigpac.mapa.es/fega/visor/ (Flash required) This branch has been contacted, and they have said (quite literally):

[We] have no problem in the images of the SIGPAC being used in [the OpenStreetMap] project.

IDEE

People from Madrid have already contacted the IGN ("Instituto Geográfico Nacional" or "National Geographic Institute"). They want to make data "more public", and so have agreed to let us import some of their data. Depending on the success and impact, we might be able to import lots of data and use the new aerial imagery (called "PNOA", covering the entire country at 50 cm/px).

Cadastrial data

Spanish Cadastre is publishing all cadastrial data as a WMS service [26]. They say:

La Dirección General del Catastro ofrece como servicio WMS la Cartografía Catastral de forma libre y gratuita. "The general directorate of the cadastre offers the Cadastrial Cartography as a WMS service, free** and free*"

* as in "free beer" ** as in "freedom"

Cadastrial data can also be downloaded from the Official site as shapefiles (cartography) and *.CAT files (alphanumeric information). Terms of use are regulated by the Resolución de 23 de marzo de 2011, de la Dirección General del Catastro, por la que se aprueban los criterios de acceso, formatos de entrega y condiciones de la licencia-tipo para el acceso al servicio de descarga masiva de datos y cartografía, a través de la Sede Electrónica del Catastro. which states:

Se autoriza el uso público, incluido el comercial, de la información catastral que haya sido sometida a cualquier proceso previo de transformación... Public use of cadastrial data is permitted, including commercial use, if such data have been previously transformed in any way...

According to the above statement, data from Spanish Cadastre can be imported into OSM once it has been transformed, for example from the original shapefiles->reproyected to EPSG:4326->converted to *.osm format.

Spanish Cadastre has a lot of information with very high accuracy, such as buildings (shape, use, height, number of floors, etc.), land use, most of streets and roads of the country, power station, trees... Many of this information is currently in OSM, mainly ways and roads, but a great part is missing, especially in low populated areas where a ground survey is less likely to be made. More information about this topic can be found in Catastro España. A long discussion has been held on Spanish mailing list, with general agreement on the usefulness of importing these data.

Orthoimaginery

The IGN publishes a lot of (free as in "free beer") imaginery at [27]

Besides that, there is a list of available orthoimaginery sources at [28]

Sweden

See import and other details at WikiProject Sweden/Open data

Lantmäteriet

The official Swedish road map, terrain map and mountain map have been released under CC0.

Valmyndigheten

The Swedish Election Authority. They provide zip files of GIS-data with shapes. Swedish description: Filerna är zippade och innehåller shape-filer som visar namn och id på respektive geografisk enhet. Du måste ha speciell GIS-programvara för att se dessa filer. Website: [29]

NVDB

Nationell vägdatabas (National Road Database) coordinates road information in Sweden. Website: [30] or [31]

NVDB is a government assignment for Vägverket (Swedish Road Administration). NVDB contains a reference roadmap and additional data. It is used by governmental and private entities.

License: CC-0

Fordonsgas (CNG Natural Gas Fuel Stations)

Natural Gas fuel stations are published by Fordonsgas as GPS coordinates on their site

Örebro city map data

The city of Örebro offers some map data (as GML, JSON and WMS layers). License should be compatible, since it is CC-0. Website: http://www.orebro.se/8760.html

Note: You will need to change projection to make the WMS layer work with JOSM. I was only able to get EPSG:3009 to work.

Stockholm

Open data for Stockholm stad. License is unclear. I have only been able to find some mentions about conforming to opendefinition.org. Didn't say which specific license though. Website: http://open.stockholm.se/oppna-data/geodata/

Swedish County Administrative Boards

The Swedish County Administrative Boards offer some map data (as Shape files) and also some metadata related to the GIS data. Website: [32]

Havs och Vattenmyndigheten (Ocean and water authority)

Data on public outdoor baths. Water quality (which is probably not relevant for OSM) but also name, position and if it's checked by EU standards. "Free to use", no claim of copyright. Should equal CC0 according to conversation.

https://www.havochvatten.se/hav/fiske--fritid/badvatten/statistik-over-badvattenkvalitet.html

Various

There is apparently some sort of competition for innovative uses of open data sources going on this year (2015), this site has a list (in Swedish) of various open data sources and their licenses: http://hackforsweden.se/data/

Not all of them have compatible licenses, and not all of them are geographical data, but there might be some useful data in there.

Switzerland

The Swiss-specific datasources are listed on their own Wiki-page.

Taiwan

See Taiwan.

Tajikistan

Tajikistan is at the same time one of the most poorly mapped countries on OSM and a very prone-to-disasters country, thus the need to find good data sources and to improve the quality of the map. A dedicated Wiki-page page has been setup.

So far, I haven't found any national dataset that is for sure 100% free of copyrights. Some potential sources are listed below, with mention of the potential problem. Please feel free to contribute to this list:

Scanned Soviet maps: although not completely up-to-date, those maps are still widely used in the country (mainly because there's nothing better available). The legal status is unclear (namely: have the copyrights fallen into the public domain with the collapse of the USSR or have they been passed to the Russian Administration? The latter seems to be the opinion of Russian mappers). See on the mailing list: [33]

Digitized 1/200000 maps: a vectorized version of the Soviet maps widely circulates in Tajikistan but the license terms are unclear (as they are not distributed with the data itself). Has anyone a crystal-clear and unambiguous proof of the licensing status of this dataset?

Any other idea?

United Kingdom

Local authority street naming notifications

I wrote an email to my local authority when I found out that they notify interested parties on the council's decisions on naming and numbering new properties and streets. For areas that have already been densely surveyed and mapped (90%+), it would be an invaluable list of places that might need re-surveying or other editing.

I got an answer back - the council do make the information freely available on their web site, but it's in the form of a PDF file per decision, in a human readable format only, and the whole list is not easily searchable. The information contains no geographic information other than relative references, eg.

That a new development of a house being built on the site adjacent to 47 Belmont Avenue, Barnet, Herts, EN4 shall be postally addressed: WOODVIEW HOUSE, 1A NORRYS ROAD, BARNET, HERTS, EN4 9JX.

Occasionally, whole new streets get notified.

That the access road beginning at the junction with Page Street, London, NW7 serving Copthall Leisure Centre and the surrounding properties shall be named: CHAMPIONS WAY, LONDON, NW4/NW7. That the access road that starts at Champions Way and ends at the Great North Way, London, NW4 serving Copthall Stadium shall be named: GREENLANDS LANE, LONDON, NW4.

These lists are not in a standard format among local authorities, and each local authority needs to be handled differently. I plan on writing a web scraping script to attempt to identify the changes, and by searching the nearby street names, pinpoint them on the map, so I would have a list of streets that need editing / surveying. Welshie 15:59, 13 November 2006 (UTC)

Land Registry Price Paid Data

Various facets of address-related data can be gleaned from the Land Registry Price Paid Data. Derek Jones provides example code of an approach that can be taken to extract approximate house number positions.

Local authority data sources

Fife

Roads database Contains information like

Alburne Park (K8) Glenrothes Jct Woodside Way (C125) to Jct Prestonhall Drive (K8) / K9 Adopted K8 B969 (Part 01 Of 07) Glenrothes Southfield R/bout (B921) to 50 Mph Signs North Of Southfield R/bout Adopted B969

As well as lots of other data, including for example a list of public toilets - for example a toilet in anstruther.

Also they offer a way to search for local facilities - http://www.fife.gov.uk/yourtown/index.cfm by postcode. This data could easily be extracted automatically, but the licences mentioned on the website are unsuitable (it's also unclear that this data is covered) and derivation from OS issues are also unclear.

I have not contacted them.

NaPTAN

The National Public Transport Access Nodes (NaPTAN) dataset contains details of some 350,000 public transport access points in Great Britain including bus stops, railway stations, tram stops and ferry terminals. See NaPTAN for more details.





Natural England

Natural England have datasets containing boundaries of Open Access Land (Crow Act 2000), National Parks, SSSIs, National Nature Reserves, Marine Conservation Zones, and many other protected areas. It also has data on National Trails. On April 1st 2012 Natural England started releasing data under the Open Government Licence (OGL) therefore making it available for mapping in OpenStreetMap. Read more, or view the wiki entry.

FHRS

The Food Standards Agency produces machine readable versions of the Food Hygiene Rating System data. This ranks restaurants and businesses that sell or serve food or drink with a rating from 1 to 5. See UK Food Hygiene Rating System for details.

Open Addresses UK

Open Addresses UK is a UK government funded project by the Open Data institute to create an addresses dataset which is open licensed (free of the license complications of PAF and other royal mail/O.S. mess)

Transport Scotland

High Loads Grid is a potential source of route relations - no explicit licence, so needs someone to contact.

Passenger Technology Group

Passenger Technology Group is a service provider for public transport networks, they release data under the network's brand, and licence it as Open Government License Version 3.0. OGL requires attribution, so please ensure the data provider is mentioned in Contributors.

Blackpool Transport

Open Data includes bus stop names, and locations (linked to Key:naptan:AtcoCode), stop times and routes.

Bluestar

Open Data includes bus stop names, and locations (linked to Key:naptan:AtcoCode), stop times and routes.

Borders Bus

Open Data includes bus stop names, and locations (linked to Key:naptan:AtcoCode), stop times and routes.

Brighton and Hove Bus

Open Data includes bus stop names, and locations (linked to Key:naptan:AtcoCode), stop times and routes.

Cardiff Bus

Open Data includes bus stop names, and locations (linked to Key:naptan:AtcoCode), stop times and routes.

Courtney Buses

Open Data includes bus stop names, and locations (linked to Key:naptan:AtcoCode), stop times and routes.

Morebus

Open Data includes bus stop names, and locations (linked to Key:naptan:AtcoCode), stop times and routes.

Nottingham City Transport

Open Data includes bus stop names, and locations (linked to Key:naptan:AtcoCode), stop times and routes.

Reading Buses

Open Data includes bus stop names, and locations (linked to Key:naptan:AtcoCode), stop times and routes.

Southern Vectis

Open Data includes bus stop names, and locations (linked to Key:naptan:AtcoCode), stop times and routes.

Swindon's Bus Company

Open Data includes bus stop names, and locations (linked to Key:naptan:AtcoCode), stop times and routes.

UNIBUS

Open Data includes bus stop names, and locations (linked to Key:naptan:AtcoCode), stop times and routes.

Unilink

Data includes bus stop names, and locations (linked to Key:naptan:AtcoCode), stop times and routes.

Yellow Buses

Open Data includes bus stop names, and locations (linked to Key:naptan:AtcoCode), stop times and routes.

Uruguay

The municipality of Montevideo approved a rule [34] making all the data of that municipality (except the one that has privacy or security issues) public and free of copyright. In particular GIS data from the municipality of Montevideo is now available from its site[35].

U.S.

Check metadata for each shape file obtained from government sources, and search for "Use_Constraints:" or similar to help determine usability of data with OpenStreetMap. Many will list this as "None" and should be fine to use, but others from the same page will have varying constraints. When there is any doubt, ask the contact listed in the metadata for permision, and check with the Legal Talk mailing list. --Dalep 04:36, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

National

TIGER

More detail on the TIGER page

The Tiger road data is imported.

The U.S. Census Bureau's TIGER geographic database covers the United States (including Puerto Rico). The data is available from the Census Bureau as TIGER/Line files in ASCII text format - http://www.census.gov/geo/www/tiger/. ESRI shapefiles of the TIGER data is available at http://www.esri.com/data/download/census2000_tigerline/index.html .

The TIGER data are in the public domain - http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/geo/tigerfaq?Q11 .

USFWS is a bureau of the federal government operated by the US Department of the Interior. USFWS makes cadastral data available at the USFWS Geospatial Services site. Refuges are accessible to the public for activities such as boating, hiking, hunting and fishing, so they are very relevant to OSM.

Many national forests have GIS data available for download. A statement from region 6 (Pacific NW) http://www.fs.fed.us/r6/data-library/gis/disclaimers.shtml says that the data are public domain. Unfortunately each forest seems have their own index of data and data organization. There are some files very relevant to OSM (trails; recreation points listing campsites, docks etc) and some not so useful to the normal OSM reader (owl and fish habitats).

The National Park Service has a data clearinghouse often with trails (some historic paths) rivers, roads and often with very high resolution orthophotos.

USGS

The USGS has a centralized database ( http://seamless.usgs.gov ) that contains many data sets, several that would be of use to OSM, including very detailed surface water data sets (rivers, streams, lakes, tiny ponds), dams, federal lands . The data are in the public domain ( http://seamless.usgs.gov/faq/general_faq.php#six ). However, they do request attribution of data to USGS, so it may require a followup to use in OSM.

National Hydrography Dataset

Part of the USGS Data, the National Hydrography Dataset contains detailed information on nearly all waterways and bodies in the United States

The GAP Analysis Program

Also a project of the USGS, the The GAP Analysis Program was conducted state by state initially and most recently on a regional basis. Relevant data includes landuse/landcover and stewardship/conservation lands, which includes military and DOD lands, and state/federal/local lands preserved for conservation purposes.

DOT homepage links for all 50 states. Check each for the GIS department, and statewide downloadable data.

U.S. Energy Information Administration

Contains lots of data on US infrastructure. All data is public domain. (Shapefiles)

FAA Digital Obstacle File (DOF)

The FAA Digital Obstacle File contains coordinates and elevations, as well as some meta data for aviation obstacles in the united states. It is distributed from the DAICD. I believe that the data is public domain but the CD is sold as a subscription; someone like myself who has the CD could theoretically import the data into OSM without violating copyright. (TODO: double-check IP status.) Update: As of April 2015, the file is available online at [36].

The DOF would be a useful way to populate the map with aviation-chart-related items, particularly ones that can also serve as landmarks: smoke stacks, antennas, etc.

FAA National Flight Data Center (NFDC)

Much aviation data is maintained at nfdc.faa.gov.

CLUI - Centre for landuse interpretation

http://www.clui.org/clui_4_1/index.html Information identifying weird landuses spotted in aerial imagery throughout the U.S. Non-profit organisation. No copyright information on their website. Didn't contact them (yet). Maps (approx landuse pinpointing) on the site uses google maps. May be use-able for vague identification purposes.

National Agricultural Imaging Project

http://www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/apfoapp?area=home&subject=prog&topic=nai

Decent aerial imagery. List of WMS servers

Mines

Adding the list of mines and quarries in the USA from here:

Note, I have started the process to import this data, but I accidently overwrote the names with josm. Now I am working on modifying the names. https://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/3345627

Keywords: EPA, Brownfields, Assessment Grant, Hazardous Substance, Property Redevelopment, public health, environment, federal data download, regulated sites, hazardous, contaminated, polluted, federal datasets, Land Revitalization, land redevelopment, land reuse, real property, hazardous substance, kmz, xml, Shapefile

Next Generation Radar (NEXRAD) Locations

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/nexradinv/ Next Generation Radar (NEXRAD) Locations http://www.data.gov/details/4

This geospatial rendering of weather radar sites gives access to an historical archive of Terminal Doppler Weather Radar data and is used primarily for research purposes. The archived data includes base data and derived products of the National Weather Service (NWS) Weather Surveillance Radar 88 Doppler (WSR-88D) next generation (NEXRAD) weather radar. Weather radar detects the three meteorological base data quantities: reflectivity, mean radial velocity, and spectrum width. From these quantities, computer processing generates numerous meteorological analysis products for forecasts, archiving and dissemination. There are 159 operational NEXRAD radar systems deployed throughout the United States and at selected overseas locations. At the Radar Operations Center (ROC) in Norman OK, personnel from the NWS, Air Force, Navy, and FAA use this distributed weather radar system to collect the data needed to warn of impending severe weather and possible flash floods; support air traffic safety and assist in the management of air traffic flow control; facilitate resource protection at military bases; and optimize the management of water, agriculture, forest, and snow removal. This data set is jointly owned by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Federal Aviation Administration, and Department of Defense

Processing :

Unzip. Replace wsr with Placemark. gps babel.

Added these tags:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/3350339

EPA Geospatial Data Download: Facility and Site Information

Contains information about facilities or sites subject to environmental regulation, including key facility information along with associated environmental interests for use in mapping and reporting applications.

Keywords : FRS, EPA, CERCLIS, NEPT, NPDES, PCS, RCRA, RCRAInfo, Superfund, NPL, TRI, regulated sites, toxic release, major discharges, brownfields, federal data download, national priorities list, public health, environment, federal datasets, kmz, xml, shapefile, sites, facilities

See here for the full record : EPAGeospatial

National Atlas Raw Data Download Site

This site contains a huge amount of data possibly useful to OSM. Place names, political boundaries, hydrology, etc. Most data is USGS collected and is public domain, however the site "Web Policies" page states that copyright must be inspected for each data set.

Note: Many of the shapefiles on nationalatlas.gov, particularly fedlanp020.shp and its derivatives, are horribly inaccurate (the resolution is low). Please avoid importing any more of it onto OSM! Users have found boundaries as much as a mile off from their true location. See this diary post.

Wilderness.net

Wilderness.net gathers US Designated Wilderness area definitions from the US Forest Service, Fish and Game, National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management into a single data set available for free download as Shapefile or KML.

Wilderness.net webmaster Lisa Eidson has been contacted and confirmed that all Wilderness data available on Wilderness.net is public domain.

National Transportation Atlas Database

The NTAD maintains various datasets associated with transportation in the US.

HPMS/ARNOLD

The FHWA provides the ARNOLD (All Roads Network Of Linear referenced Data) data under the HPMS (Highway Performance Monitoring System); see here.

NOAA ENC wreck and AWOIS database

The NOAA Office of Coast Survey maintains a database of wrecks and underwater obstructions. [37] The data itself is useful for a nautical chart like in the OpenSeaMap project. After confirming with NOAA via email, the data is indeed in the public domain and therefore can be imported into OSM.

Microsoft has footprint data for 9.8 million buildings in 44 states, concentrating on metropolitan areas. The data is released with an ODbL license https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/. The Microsoft Building Imports page has more details. Microsoft Building Footprint Data

North Country Trail

Alabama

Mobile, Al.

City of Mobile All layers

Alaska

Alaska DOT downloads.

Alaska Geospatioal clearinghouse Has limited availability by time of day.

Arizona

City of Flagstaff

Flagstaff has an open data website that includes building footprints and address points. The data is open and the City has given explicit permission to use in OSM.

Arkansas

Situs Address Points on Geostor The Situs Address Points have been confirmed by AGIO to be public domain data.

California

CalFire has a set of landcover layers that can be imported. The website says they may be distributed in any manner but a credit must be given. See California_Land_Cover.

http://gis.ca.gov/BrowseCatalog.epl has state park info and more

California has a master list of all parks on all levels - federal, state, county and city http://www.calands.org. We still need to get permission from GreenInfo to import data.

To see the counties that have granted OSM permission to use their data, go to California/Import.

County of Los Angeles

Los Angeles County provides countywide building outlines in public domain; data was collected from 2006-2008. More recent data exists, but has not been publicly released.

City of San Jose

San Jose provides a wide variety of datasets which includes building footprints, parcels, address points, streets, sanitary and storm systems among others.

City of Berkeley

Berkeley provides a citywide dataset of building roof prints. This data was collected in 2006.

City of Fremont

Fremont has open dataset of building footprints that covers the entire city area.

Orange County

Orange County publishes various open datasets, including building footprints with addresses, which are available to download from ArcGIS Open Data site. The data is provided under a CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication.

City of Redlands

Redlands has an open data website that includes building footprints and address points. The data is open and the City has given explicit permission to use in OSM.

City of Riverside

Riverside has created and shared a building footprints with addresses data set based on Microsoft Buildings and buildings data from the City, which has been shared with the Esri Community Maps Program and published in ArcGIS Online. The data is provided under the Open Database License (ODbL).

San Diego County

SanGIS publishes various open datasets on the SanGIS Regional Data Warehouse site, including building footprint and address points, which are available to download. The data is provided under a custom, open data license, but SanGIS has given written permission to use in OSM.

Colorado

This section have been moved to the OSM Colorado wiki page.

Connecticut

Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) has numerous data sets available at its GIS DATA portal. Of particular interest is its database of DEEP property, which includes the state forests, the state parks, and numerous other categories of public-access land.

District of Columbia

DC GIS Main page. The GIS Data Clearinghouse/Catalog link contains hundreds of data layers.

Permission: DC_Buildings_&_Addresses_Import/Permission

See: DC_Buildings_&_Addresses_Import

Florida

Florida Department of Transportation GIS data in shape format. Web site, and direct FTP Everything provided by the FDOT GIS is in public domain, this has been verified by e-mail.

Aerial photography is also available upon request from FDOT's Surveying & Mapping Office. The images, provided in MrSID format, are much higher quality than Yahoo's aerials and are released in the public domain, verified by email. The entire state is covered, with most counties photographed as recently as 2008, but check their coverage map to find out for specific counties. Unfortunately, the common OSM editing tools don't support MrSID, but with some effort, the files can be converted and served through a standard WMS.

A site for tracking down other sources of data in Florida is FindGIS, a blog/site that is pursuing Florida government agencies to release their GIS data as required. As well as list where that data can be found. Not all is free, or released as Public Domain. See each site individually.

NOTE about http://www.cfgis.org/ Careful reading suggests they are claiming copyright (and limiting distribution) on behalf of the data sources they have in the Clearinghouse even for sources that are/should be public domain. Further inquires should be made before using anything downloaded from here, or check the original source.

Counties listed below for more detailed information layers, better accuracy and up to date roads. Just be careful of the datum for the county data.

Broward County

Broward County GIS Data

Fort Lauderdale, Fl.

City of Fort Lauderdale GIS downloads

Leon County

[38] GIS downloads with shapefiles at [39] Nothing restrictive about license listed on the website except, "In respect for the privacy of property owners entitled to confidentiality, user will refresh all data obtained from this database on a monthly basis." This could prove to be rather problematic.

Orange County

Orange County GIS Should be in public domain, but not verified yet.

Seminole County

Seminole county GIS Lots of Shape layers, and even aerial data 1940-present, but not all geotagged. Should be in public domain, but not verified yet.

City of Tampa

Tampa publishes various open datasets, including building footprints with addresses, which are available to download from ArcGIS Open Data site. The data is provided under a CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication.

Volusia County

Volusia County GIS Should be in public domain, but not verified yet.

Georgia

Georgia GIS Clearinghouse

Some potential data sources are listed on the Georgia page and the Atlanta page. Info that has been imported include:

Trails from the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest

Statewide landuse data from the USGS Landuse / Landcover dataset

Some basins from the National Hydrography Dataset

Landuse data from LandPro08 (import in progress)

Specifically in the city of Athens, GA the Athens-Clarke County Government has data on many different features through their Open Data portal. This includes data related to:

County Government (related to everyday government activites)

Environment (natural environment data in Athens)

Historic (historic site and area data in Athens)

Transportation (transportation data in Athens)

Zoning and Boundaries

And More

City of Johns Creek

Johns Creek publishes various open datasets, including building structures and address points, which are available to download from Johns Creek Open Data Hub. The data is provided under a CC BY license, but the City GIS team has expressed a desire to see the data added to OpenStreetMap and will likely be happy to share with explicit permission for use in OSM.

Hawaii

Hawaii Statewide GIS Program

The Hawaii GIS Program has a very large collection of GIS data. No license information is mentioned on the website, but the GIS data is all in the public domain, as verified in a personal conversation with a manager in the GIS department.

The road data is probably not particularly relevant, since TIGER road data has already been imported. But this source includes data that would be very difficult or impossible to get any other way, such as streams and coral reefs.

Idaho

Boise

The City of Boise has a website dedicated to open data. Notably, it contains addresses for the entire city as well as fire hydrants. The fire hydrants could be imported with little issue as there are no existing fire hydrant nodes to check against. There are 9,237 hydrants in the dataset, meaning it could be uploaded in one changeset. As for the addresses, this would require much more manual review, but it would add a significant amount of useful data. The front page specifies that the data are Open, Public, and Free to Use.

Illinois

Illinois DOT

Chicago

CDOT The Chicago Department of Transportation.

[40] Provides Bikway/parking/shop public data in the chicago area.

McHenry County

McHenry County GIS Map

Map Data Sources

McLean County

McLean County GIS Consortium: the datasets are under CC-BY 4.0 but one could ask them if they would be willing to waive the incompatible terms or dual license them under ODbL. link.

Indiana

Indiana Map Statewide Orthophotography (2005) The IndianaMap project has produced this imagery "public domain and provided with no restrictions on data distribution. Please provide credit for these data to the IndianaMap Framework Data."

Local Datasets (Counties, various dates) these datasets are public domain without use constraints

Iowa

Iowa DNR "The NRGIS Library is public information, and offered freely to encourage the wise utilization of Iowa's natural resources." from the about page.

Iowa DOT Maps "The mission of Transportation Data is to gather, maintain, analyze, and distribute transportation related information. This information includes roadway, structure, and rail-crossing data, traffic statistics, and intelligent map products that support the economic, environmental, and social vitality of Iowa." I contacted the Iowa DOT and they said, "The Iowa Transportation Map has copyright restrictions. The city and county maps are in the public domain." --Carl Simonson 15:16, 6 December 2012 (UTC)

Polk County

Polk County GIS Data

Kentucky

The Kentucky Geoportal - Licensing seems open but vague [41] - GIS data available for download

Lexington

Open Data Portal - Terms of use here [42] - All county GIS data online in bulk

Louisville

Open Data Portal - Has some of the county's GIS data, more coming - Open Data Policy [43] - "Data available through Louisville’s Open Data Portal is offered free and without restriction."

Madison County

Madison County publishes various open datasets, including address points, which are available to download from ArcGIS Open Data site. The data is provided under the Open Database License (ODbL).

Louisiana

City of New Orleans

data.nola.gov has a number of shapefiles available which are explicitly licensed as CC0.

Maine

The MEGIS Data Catalog includes shapefiles for a variety of datasets relevant to Maine.

Maine GeoLibrary has additional datasets that are relevant to Maine.

Governing copyright laws:

Maryland

City of Salisbury, Maryland

Wicomico County City of Salisbury The joint City of Salisbury/Wicomico County GIS group maintains detailed and accurate GIS data that is, through personal conversation with both City and County GIS coordinators, public domain. Efforts are being made to make this data publicly available through venues such as Open Street Map and internally hosted public web maps. Uploaded data includes the most recent, up-to-date City administrative boundary, building footprints, and more extensive coverage of hydrology data for the majority of the Wicomico County/City of Salisbury metrocore area.

Prince George's County, Maryland

Prince George's County maintains an OpenData portal for GIS which launched July 1, 2015 which contains 200+ datasets including: building shapefiles, points of interest by category type, hydro structures, contour lines, and other features for the entire county in Maryland.

Use Constraints: Creative Commons Attribution https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. You can copy, modify, distribute, and perform analysis on the data, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission, but please provide attribution to the Prince George's County Planning Department. The Planning Department makes no warranties about the data, and disclaims liability for all uses of the data, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

Attribution required: Data retrieved from Planning Department GIS Open Data http://www.pgplanning.org

Massachusetts

MassGIS main download page. The import Catalog lists this as imported with a massgis_import_* tag. Which layers were imported? See MassGIS for the trail of breadcrumbs. Several layers imported, including roads, points of interest, building outines in Boston, and OpenSpace (2009-01-04), by CRSchmidt.

City of Boston

Boston publishes various open datasets, including addresss points, which are available to download from ArcGIS Open Data site. The data is provided under ODC Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL).

Michigan

MDOT All Roads consists of all roads from the Michigan Geographic Framework (MGF) base map.

consists of all roads from the Michigan Geographic Framework (MGF) base map. MDOT Bridge Connections provides information about the bridge connection layer which is an inventory of the bridge signs installed on MDOT bridges, railroad bridges and local bridges within Michigan Department of Transportation’s jurisdiction.

provides information about the bridge connection layer which is an inventory of the bridge signs installed on MDOT bridges, railroad bridges and local bridges within Michigan Department of Transportation’s jurisdiction. MDOT Five Year Transportation Program provides an annual document listing roads and bridge projects planned for the next five years. After being presented to the State Transportation Commission’s and gets its approval, the document is posted on MDOT’s Web site.

provides an annual document listing roads and bridge projects planned for the next five years. After being presented to the State Transportation Commission’s and gets its approval, the document is posted on MDOT’s Web site. MDOT Lane Mile Inventory consists of a GPS assisted windshield survey data collection of the number of lanes on any given segment of Michigan state highway.

consists of a GPS assisted windshield survey data collection of the number of lanes on any given segment of Michigan state highway. MDOT Mile Markers has information about mile marker location along Michigan’s highways. The dataset includes descriptive information such as latitude and longitude, route name, region, TSC, county, control section number, physical reference(PR), number, PR mile point and mile number.

has information about mile marker location along Michigan’s highways. The dataset includes descriptive information such as latitude and longitude, route name, region, TSC, county, control section number, physical reference(PR), number, PR mile point and mile number. Pavement Condition : SEMCOG (Southeast Michigan Council of Governments) open data provides road condition data which is collected annually from late Spring to late Fall using RoadSoft. They also provide a dataset with roads extracted from version 16 of the Michigan Geographic Framework. The data can be downloaded from this page.

: SEMCOG (Southeast Michigan Council of Governments) open data provides road condition data which is collected annually from late Spring to late Fall using RoadSoft. They also provide a dataset with roads extracted from version 16 of the Michigan Geographic Framework. The data can be downloaded from this page. Michgian DNR : The Michigan Department of Natural Resources maintains an open data portal at MI DNR Open Data. It contains a variety of points including camping sites, trails, DNR stations and addresses, among other datasets.

Detroit, Michigan

Traffic Signals is a dataset with the location of all traffic signals in Detroit.

The page contains the location of all traffic signs in Detroit.

Minnesota

Minnesota Basemap WMS Services

MnGEO offers WMS services that are useful for basemap layers. The services include state-wide and metro imagery with resolutions of a meter or less. The services are available in geographic or UTM Zone15N spatial reference systems. More info at: http://www.mngeo.state.mn.us/chouse/wms/wms_image_server_description.html

Minnesota DOT GIS Data

The Minnesota Department of Transportation releases 1:24000 scale GIS data files. From the site: "The data set includes information about transportation features (roads, railroads and navigable waters), as well as boundary information (State, County, and Municipal Boundaries, Mn/DOT District Boundaries, Civil, and Congressional Townships, State Forests and Parks, Military Reservations, Indian Reservation Lands, National Forests and Parks), and stream and lake locations." The files are "free of charge" from the MNDOT website: http://www.dot.state.mn.us/maps/gisbase/html/datafiles.html b