Re: [talk-au] Refreshing NSW place names from the GNB database.

After a bit of digital archaeology I've found this thread: https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2007-July/000398.html Which seems to be the point at which people thought they'd got permission (but there are doubters in the thread). The bit I can't figure is why they'd agreed

Re: [talk-au] Refreshing NSW place names from the GNB database.

I think that "refreshing" the Geographic Names Board (GNB) placenames would be unhelpful. If you read the contributors page in the wiki, it is unclear that appropriate permission was ever obtained to use the GNB data. It seemed to me that the particular contributor was relying on a generalised

Re: [talk-au] Refreshing NSW place names from the GNB database.

Hmm, yes that is a problem. It one of the more annoying things that I've found with OSM; that the level of documentation for "approval" is not consistent. I had been assuming that this had been approved on the basis of it being in the list of imports. In that case is it a matter of removing

Re: [talk-au] Refreshing NSW place names from the GNB database.

On 7/4/16 11:43, Ian Sergeant wrote: Hi, What are you actually trying to achieve here? As I understand, the purpose of the original GNB update was slot in GNB names where OSM didn't already have coverage. If there is already a town/village/suburb/locality in OSM, and it is already well

Re: [talk-au] Refreshing NSW place names from the GNB database.

As far as I can tell, this data isn't available under a free and open license, so unless there is documentation somewhere to suggest otherwise, it shouldn't have been imported to begin with and certainly shouldn't be added again. On 7 April 2016 at 11:30, Andrew Davidson

Re: [talk-au] Refreshing NSW place names from the GNB database.

Hi, What are you actually trying to achieve here? As I understand, the purpose of the original GNB update was slot in GNB names where OSM didn't already have coverage. If there is already a town/village/suburb/locality in OSM, and it is already well located, then there is no issue that I can

[talk-au] Refreshing NSW place names from the GNB database.

There was an import of NSW places from the GNB database done back in 2008 with a helpful wiki page ;-) http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NSW_Geographic_Names_Import I'm proposing to review these to see what's changed in the last 8 years but I've run into a number of problems: 1. It would