Hi all,
I’m trying to add boundaries for neighbourhoods in the City of Burnaby in Canada; however, I’m not sure if the source I’ll be using would be compatible with the OSM license. (The main purpose is to improve neighbourhood geocoding in the city)
As a reference, the cities next to Burnaby, Vancouver and New Westminster, have their neighbourhoods boundaries mapped already, with Vancouver citing “vanmapp” (old city map I presume), and New Westminster citing a community plan pdf (Ambiguous license).
I’ve looked around and found the city’s open data for community plan designations. The only issue with that is the license doesn’t seem to be compatible as attribution is required.
I did find a link to the Official Land Use Map used for the city’s 2050 plan, which doesn’t seem to mention any licensing/copyright explicitly. This has more data than from the city’s open data page, so I’d like to use it, but again, I don’t know if this compatible with the OSM license.
The city does have additional community plans available as pdfs, and I’ve seen some on physical boards outside. (Is it possible to use those, following how neighbourhoods were mapped in New Westminster?)
If none of these work, I would like to see if there’s an alternate way of figuring out neighbourhood boundaries (likely not), or is it suggested to contact the city for written approval for use in OSM?
