Hi Brett,
Your email prompted me to create something I have been meaning to do for
a while: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/GettingPermission
Hope it helps. Else, if you think meeting Vogon poetry [1] with Vogon
poetry would be better, the License Working Group can help if you can
get contact details and links to what the data is and how it is licensed.
Mike
Proud Vogon Bard
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogon
On 11/09/2012 10:59, Brett Russell wrote:
Hi Ian
Um? Writing to a bureaucracy and reading their response thrills
almost as much an month long recital of Vogon poetry. But will give
the Minister a shot once I work out the approach. Tempted by
something along the lines of "During the Second World War Britain made
great attempts to keep place names secert. Can you please tell
(insert state naming registry authority) that the second world war is
over."
Something tells me that Minister will not mind but the mapping
authorities might come under pressure from the commercial mappers to
hold this information back. Stay tune but in the intervening ice age
the lakes I have madly been mapping are like to have change.
Cheers
> From: [email protected]
> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:49:46 +1000
> Subject: Re: [talk-au] Getting is right
> To: [email protected]
> CC: [email protected]
>
> On 11 September 2012 12:42, Brett Russell <[email protected]>
wrote:
>
> > I have been looking at few commercial mapping products closely and
it is interesting to see the errors.
>
> In the cities it seems not so bad, but google maps on minor roads
> outside of major urban centres is a work of fiction.
>
> > But I am curious that using the List in Tassie to check names is
wrong? It is a Government service and one that actually "forces "
> > name changes such as the removable of possessive names and even
names it does not like. Russell Fallls for example was not
> > correct but it subsequently decreed to be. The government surveyor
stuffed that up many years ago.
>
> The Tasmanian Government clearly claims copyright.
>
> Why not write a nice letter to the General Manager, Information and
> Land Services. Set out that what OSM is, and ask for permission to
> check names against the LIST, and release the resulting data under a
> free and open licence. Say they will be attributed if they wish at
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors.
>
> If they say yes, we have explicit permission. If they say no, then
> you probably weren't allowed to begin with.
>
> Ian.
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