I don’t know the answer to your question, but I am interested in the EU directive you mention. Do you know which one it is? We’re trying to get access to such data in Bulgaria, so maybe we can exchange experiences?
The EU Commission has published a list of “high-value datasets” (this includes aerial imagery) that public authorities must make available free of charge and under an open licence, “through application programming interfaces (‘APIs’) and bulk download”. After a transitional period of 16 months, the regulation will come into force on 9 June 2024.
However, a delay of up to two years may be possible:
Member States may exempt individual public sector bodies, upon their request and in line with the criteria set out in the Directive from the requirement to make high-value datasets available free of charge for a period not exceeding two years from the date of the entry into force of this Implementing Regulation.
Have you perhaps forwarded this/other thread to LWG@hbogner (or @Janjko), or are we here hoping that LWG will stumble upon license tag in Croatia category by themselves?
We got a breakthrough in Croatia regarding state owned data. It was “purchasable” with restrictions only before, but now it is available under Open License. Can we use the data as is or do we need some extra steps like getting explicit written permission?
I created a thread on the forum with the links to the laws and licenses, so others with knowledge about that topic can be up to date and to chip in their knowledge.
LWG has looked at the licence, and it does appear that the licence is compatible (we reviewed the English version here - Open License | Portal otvorenih podataka)
In using this data, please make sure to add your data source to Contributors - OpenStreetMap Wiki, linking to both the data source and the licence. In addition, when adding changesets with information from data sources with this licence, please be sure to indicate in the changeset the particular data source and version. This is because the licence specifies that usage attribution should "include the date of its last update” which of course could differ on a changeset by changeset basis. Please communicate this to the Croatian mapping community.
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This will also be reflected in the LWG minutes when they are finalized.
I was asking about State Geodetic Administration(DGU) data, but I forgot that others now use the same license. That means we can use all the data that is under that license with proper attribution on OSM wiki.
