On 24 February 2011 14:33, {withheld} <[email protected]> wrote:> For <expletive elided>'s sake, with due respect to Andrew Harvey and > Steve Bennett, shouldn't the community be a whole lot better off > expressing appropriate gratitude to Marcus Blake for offering this data > and then pissing off and finding a use for it! > Marcus isn't just offering the data, he is also looking for a static data repository. He says that ... > From the ABS point of view the principle reason for doing this is > that an the OSM database would hold a copy of the official version > of the boundaries and that this point of truth would be available for > all OSM users and downstream distributors. I don't believe OSM offers that. It is kindness in stating that directly up front. That doesn't mean that OSM can't continue to work with the ABS data in other ways. Ian.
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