Hi Ramon Isn't this something that should be done by the proj.4 project? Or by distributions such as osgeo4w?
Regards, Marco Am Donnerstag, 24. März 2011, um 00.26:13 schrieb Ramon Andinach: > Hello, > > Is it possible to get the following files included in the projections > folder (/usr/share/proj or equivalent). > http://www.icsm.gov.au/icsm/gda/gdatm/national66.zip > http://www.icsm.gov.au/icsm/gda/gdatm/national84.zip > > To work properly they need to be unzipped and renamed to agd66.gsb and > agd84.gsb respectively. > > They are licenced under the CC by A (Australia), as confirmed below, > requiring only attribution to the ICSM. > > This should then close ticket 3099 [1,2,3] and result in a bundle of happy > Australians that would then roam across the country extolling how > wonderful QGIS is :) > > If they're too big to go in the distro, let me know and I'll rig some > instructions into the wiki. > > -ramon. > [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3099 > [2] Something roughly like this has been added to the ticket > [3] If it ends up that we're having trouble getting resulting QGIS > generated AGD shape files recognised in other GIS packages (to Brett and > myself the .prj files look a little weird, and Brett is currently checking > this out) then we should use a new ticket for that. > > Begin forwarded message: > > From: <[email protected]> > > Date: 24 March 2011 06:28:31 > > To: <[email protected]> > > Subject: RE: Copyright on AGD84 and AGD66 transformation grids > > [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] > > > > Dear Ramon, > > > > Yes you're correct that the data is available under the Creative Commons > > licence. If you use, or refer to it, in any publication, the only > > requirement is to attribute ICSM as the creator of the data, as outlined > > on the Creative Commons website > > http://creativecommons.org.au/learn-more/licences > > > > If you require further clarification, please do not hesitate to contact > > me again. > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Lesley > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: custard [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:31 > > To: ICSM > > Subject: Copyright on AGD84 and AGD66 transformation grids > > > > Dear Lesley Waterhouse, > > > > I am writing to as if I can confirm the copyright status for the two AGD > > transformation grids found here: > > http://www.icsm.gov.au/icsm/gda/gdatm/national66.zip > > http://www.icsm.gov.au/icsm/gda/gdatm/national84.zip > > > > and linked from the GDA Techincal Manaul's webpage: > > http://www.icsm.gov.au/icsm/gda/gdatm/index.html > > > > To my understanding they are covered by the Creative Commans by > > Attribution Licence for Australia (v3.0). Is this correct? > > > > If not, what copyright licencing applies to it? > > > > Yours sincerely, > > Ramon Andinach > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer -- Dr. Marco Hugentobler Sourcepole - Linux & Open Source Solutions Churerstrasse 22, CH-8808 Pfäffikon SZ, Switzerland [email protected] http://www.sourcepole.ch Technical Advisor QGIS Project Steering Committee _______________________________________________ Qgis-developer mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
