Thanks Mark and I appreciate your feedback. I very much hope you will be
able to accept the new terms and get back to mapping and will help if I can.
The direct answer to your question is that if ABS data is available and
downloaded from data.gov.au [1], and has a CC-BY license, then yes. I
checked a fairly large random sample and, indeed, all of them were
CC-BY. If the dataset is only available from the ABS website [2] then it
would be best to be cautious and courteous by asking them directly. I
have not done so as I believe everything (geographical) that the OSM
community wants is at data.gov.au, but am happy to do so if asked.
Now, at a practical level, I believe this all boils down to one dataset
of suburb boundaries [3]. I hope others will correct me if I am wrong
here. There is also an interesting dataset of post code areas, I
believe that has never been imported, but could be done now.
The suburbs dataset in OSM is from 2006 data and was imported by Franc
under the user account http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/ABS2006. I
have confirmed that Franc does not wish to accept the new contributor
terms on behalf of that account. It will therefore have to be removed.
It can be replaced with a newer 2011 dataset [4], so is probably a good
thing anyway? Franc has very kindly made the original Perl import
script available, I can mail it anyone who wants it. Ogr2osm [5] has
also been recommended to me as a very up-to-date tool.
I am steadily hijacking your original question but my suggestion is that
this be done fairly soon after a bit of discussion so that folks know
what is happening, checked that the details I am presenting are correct
and can give some input. One question: should all relevant boundaries
be removed (easy, clean but will also blow away some local corrections
made by contributors) or should just the ABS2006 user data be removed,
(which will leave the corrections but be messier and require some manual
merging when the new 2011 set is imported)?
Hope that helps,
Mike
[1] http://data.gov.au/data/?agency=Australian+Bureau+of+Statistics
[2] _http://www.abs.gov.au/geography_ and
http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/webpages/statistics?opendocument
are good starting points.
[3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue/ABS_Data Franc's
write up on the orginal import
[4]
http://data.gov.au/dataset/state-suburbs-asgs-non-abs-structures-ed-2011/
Latest suburb boundaries?
[5] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ogr2osm Import tool
On 15/11/2011 23:40, Nilbog_aus_OSM wrote:
Thanks Michael. Actually seeing a full copy of an email including the
OKing the use of gov.au data is what I was waiting for also. Getting
an explicit email approving the use is going above and beyond for me
and much appreciated.
I haven't been following OSM as much as I did now my uses for it have
dropped. So please forgive me if the following question has been
answered or has become inflammatory. Does the gov.au Ok also cover the
ABS data?
As the ABS data is the only thing left stopping me accepting the new
terms.
Thanks
Mark
*From:* Michael Collinson [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Wednesday, 16 November 2011 2:34 AM
*To:* OSM Australian Talk List
*Subject:* Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted
On 15/11/2011 11:58, 80n wrote:
Can you please publish the verbatim correspondence that you have had
with your man at data.gov.au <http://data.gov.au>? Your
interpretation is fine, but others may see nuances that you have
overlooked.
The statement on the wiki is not a statement from data.gov.au
<http://data.gov.au> and counts for nothing unless you have a document
from your man at data.gov.au <http://data.gov.au> that references it
and says yes that's ok. Do you have such a document?
Gosh, this is getting kakfaesque. Hope this puts this it to bed:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution/data.gov.au_explicit_permission
and copied below in response to my request today, also copied below.
Mike
-------------------------------------
Hi Michael,
Thank you for your email.
The attribution statement
"Contains data from Australian government public information datasets.
The original datasets are available from the Australian government
data website <http://data.gov.au/> under Creative Commons -
Attribution 2.5 Australia (CC-BY)
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/> and Creative Commons
- Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC-BY)
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/>. We have also been
given explicit permission to incorporate and publish such CC-BY
licensed geographic coordinate datasets under a free and open license,
including the Open Database License, provided that primary attribution
is made here and that each dataset used is also listed here in the
format /Dataset Name, Date Published, License, Agency Name, originally
retrieved from// //http://data.australia.gov.au/
<http://data.australia.gov.au/>: "
accurately reflects what we have said.
Regards,
Data.gov.au team.
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On 15/11/2011 11:35, Michael Collinson wrote:
Hi again,
Thanks for your email of 19th October. I am rather embarrassed
to do this but may I ask to you give a more formal assent to
satisfy some of our map data contributors and that I can publish?
May be: "The attribution statement
"Contains data from Australian government public information
datasets. The original datasets are available from the Australian
government data website <http://data.gov.au/> under Creative
Commons - Attribution 2.5 Australia (CC-BY)
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/> and Creative
Commons - Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC-BY)
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/>. We have also
been given explicit permission to incorporate and publish such
CC-BY licensed geographic coordinate datasets under a free and
open license, including the Open Database License, provided that
primary attribution is made here and that each dataset used is
also listed here in the format /Dataset Name, Date Published,
License, Agency Name, originally retrieved from//
//http://data.australia.gov.au/ <http://data.australia.gov.au/>: "
accurately reflects what we have said."
Regards,
Michael Collinson
OpenStreetMap Foundation
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