Re: [talk-au] [OSM-legal-talk] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-17 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: The goal of that statement was to allow any contributions that have been derived from our PhotoMaps under our current licence (which is what imposes the CC-BY-SA redistribution condition) can remain in the OSM db.  Not being

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-17 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:42 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: That is the reason why very little effort has been expended mapping Australia lately, until we know what skeleton of data we'll have left to work with after the changeover. If you want to map for OSM at the moment,

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-17 Thread John Smith
On 17 June 2011 18:38, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:42 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: That is the reason why very little effort has been expended mapping Australia lately, until we know what skeleton of data we'll have left to work with

[talk-au] Nearmap will still be very useful.

2011-06-17 Thread Nick Hocking
Since (for the areas it covers) Nearmap is likely to be to most up-to-date imagery available, we can use it to spot where new roads have sprung up in towns that do not currently have an active mapper driving around. We can then schedule a trip to said town to remedy the situation. For other