Liz wrote: > On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Matt White wrote: > >> How are people mapping National Park (or state forest or other >> government mandated areas)? It seems that in a lot of cases, there is no >> way of actually doing an on the ground survey - a lot of the boundaries >> aren't marked, the areas can be massively inaccessible etc. >> >> Question is: is it legit to use park/forest boundaries taken from >> government sources? If not, how on earth are we going to solve this >> little problem? >> >> Matt >> >> > My significant other is trying to obtain national park data as defined lat > and > long co-ordinates. > I think that putting points in on co-ordinates which are defined does not > infringe anyone's copyright. > > I have a sneaking suspicion that National Parks and State Forests are defined by acts of Parliament at the federal and state levels respectively, so the co-ord are probably in Hansard somewhere...
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