The Licensing Working Group has obtained explicit special permission to incorporate geographic datasets from data.gov.au in the OpenStreetMap project database published under any free and open license, including ODbL, provided that
a) we provide primary attribution in a reasonable manner ( currently http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/Attribution ), and b) that we explicitly list there each dataset used to give useful feedback within the Australian government on how folks are using open data. We have been careful to point out that (under ODbL) we are not asking folks who make visual maps from OpenStreetMap to provide secondary attribution to each and every contributor, so would not be in compliance with the CC-BY Australia 2.5 and 3.0 license their data is normally provided under. They have raised no objection to this. The LWG would like to publicly thank data.gov.au both for providing open geographic data and for providing this permission. The rest of this email is about individual datasets. We have already updated the OpenStreetMap Attribution page here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution#Australian_government_public_information_datasets You will see two lists. The first are datasets that are definitely from data.gov.au. The second is a list we are unsure of and will be working to contact individual agencies now we have the basic principle in place. The most useful set on the second list is the Australian Bureau of Statistics suburbs dataset. Regretfully, the user who imported the data will not accept the new CTs for the ABS2006 import account and we respect his wishes. However, there appears to be a later 2011 version of the same data (needs confirming) at http://data.gov.au/4105 and he has agreed to make the import program available. We suggest that the old set be deleted completely and replaced. This means that some individual local-knowledge tweaks may be lost, so some discussion might be needed. The Weather Station data is also imported under an account that has declined the new terms. If anyone is interested in re-importing it, we will be happy to approach the Bureau of Meteorology; it very likely needs separate permission. And that leaves these others where we are not yet sure exactly where they came from: * Queensland police stations * NSW Geographic Names Board places (importer contacted) * Queensland national parks, state forests and conservation areas Kind regards Grant On behalf of LWG. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
