A while back I had taken a look comparing my local OGL to others in our area that were approved and listed on the wiki. Noting the similarities to existing documents I added our local cities as well per their attribution requirements. This differs slightly from documentation the that the legal working group has produced here https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/OGL_Canada_and_local_variants

I’ve not heard back from the legal questions email with my question after a few days now. But wanted to keep productive and provide supporting due diligence I am able to help out on. This seemed like a reasonable platform to use for such.

Comparing the latest “reviewed and approved” OGL from Guelph https://explore.guelph.ca/pages/open-data-license

To Edmonton and Calgary which are in turn based on the Alberta licenses. https://data.edmonton.ca/stories/s/City-of-Edmonton-Open-Data-Terms-of-Use/msh8-if28/ https://data.calgary.ca/stories/s/Open-Calgary-Terms-of-Use/u45n-7awa/ https://open.alberta.ca/licence

The majority of the documents and verbiage are identical, the differences i am able to note are as follows:

• Preambles differ slightly for each document; however all roll up to the OGL - Canada
• General formatting
• Call out to relevant local attribution, acts
• Alberta, Calgary and Edmonton add an additional exemption for “Information or Record that are not accessible under applicable laws” with an extra definition for “Records” pointing to the Alberta freedom of information and protection of Privacy act. Guelf (and others) directly reference the act as “information not accessible under the municipal freedom of information and protection of privacy act”

While i have zero experience in this specific area, as a regular joe, it really feels like these documents are all in the same spirit with changes to their applicable regions’ acts. There are a number of other communities in the province that follow the Alberta OGL that i will work towards adding attribution requirements. I have not added Alberta’s attribution to the wiki as there hasn’t been a data source that would be of value yet.

The protocol for modifications to the wiki, attributions etc.. are not really clear so this is my best effort to keep everything okay. I think this is probably something the foundation should clear up, possibly control on the attribution/wiki side if it is a problem.

sincerely an Alberta Canada area mapper,

-kevinOs