Hi Looks good. I might just manage not to resort to chewing my own arm off to survive.
Get the feeling that relentless pressure from many will get the walls to crumble. So I will be the first assault with my trumpet. Cheers Brett capable of proving that a musical instrument can be an instrument of terror. On 11/09/2012, at 9:30 PM, "Michael Collinson" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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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