On 19/06/2010 10:20 PM, John Smith wrote: > A little birdy tells me that they think the GA data may suffer similar > problems to the SRTM data, in any case will have to look into the > licensing, it may not be favourable even if the data isn't being > uploaded to OSM.
Basically the only options for Australia for DEM data appear to be the SRTM and GA ones. The best work on the SRTM data is probably by Sean Williams (Dooghan) on gpsaustralia.net. He has created Garmin IMG files with 5m contours, though with 90m data, 5m is pretty optimistic. Looks nice though. http://www.lizarddrinking.net/index.htm GA data does have a ? over the licensing. The GA site is licensed using the cc-by licence, but the data appears to be specifically licensed under different terms. That said, it's not really clear exactly what is allowed. There are comments like "Furthermore, there are no restrictions on commercial value-adding or on-selling for those spatial datasets listed on the Schedule" on the site. But also the "Standard Licence" has phrases like "OSDM may, at any time, terminate the Licence, with immediate effect by giving 90 days notice to the other party". I thought I noticed a while back that Nearmap was planning on doing some stuff in the DEM space, so maybe they'll have something down the track? Can only hope... cheers ---- Canyoning? try http://ozultimate.com/canyoning Bushwalking? try http://ozultimate.com/bushwalking _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
