On Mon, 21 Apr, 2014 at 8:21 AM, Andrew Harvey
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 20 April 2014 23:36, Daniel O'Connor <[email protected]>
wrote:
A corresponding data set might be:
https://sdi.nsw.gov.au/sdi.nsw.gov.au/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7B012BD68E-569E-4965-A4B0-48CBBBA64FF4%7D
... though you'd want to get in contact with the maintainers and
get an
alternative licence+explicit permission to import it.
Cheers, I just sent off an email to the SDI/LPI asking for permission -
text is below.
I think you would have better luck with using the ABS dataset which is
CC BY and obtaining those extra rights required by OSM.
This is interesting. Looking at
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#Australian_government_public_information_datasets>,
it seems ABS data should already be fine to use, and is indeed already
in use for suburbs. However from the import plan page
<http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue/ABS_Data>, the
import doesn't seem to have gotten too far, and also questions the
accuracy of the data.
Given that many suburbs in NSW are currently indicated by nodes, would
an import of the ABS boundaries, however inaccurate, be better than
nothing?
//Mike
Email sent to [email protected]:
On Mon, 21 Apr, 2014 at 4:39 PM, Michael Gratton <[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I am a contributor to Open Street Map (OSM)[1], a world-wide,
collaboratively edited, open project to create a global geodata set
freely usable by anyone. OSM is used by millions of ordinary people,
researchers and public and private organisations, every day.
The NSW LPI publishes the NSW Suburb boundary Dataset[2], a spatial
data set that if included in OSM would be of great befit to the OSM
community, since unlike other Australian states this data is not
currently present. Its omission makes it difficult to find specific
suburbs in NSW or to look up the location of streets by name, for
example. However after examining the Legal Constraints listed in the
metadata for the data set at [2], it seems the existing licensing is
incompatible with the Open Data Commons Open Database License
(ODbL)[3], which is the open data licence used by OSM[4].
Since the OSM community strongly desires to abide by both LPI's
rights and also comply with its own, I am writing to ask the LPI to
provide OSM with a specific waiver for the existing licensing
restrictions and fees for the data set that is compatible with the
ODbL licence, such that it may be imported by OSM.
Copyright and other attribution notices for LPI and/or the NSW
Government can be provided on the Contributors list[5]. As you can
see from that page, many governments and governmental agencies around
the world have already provided such permission, including the NSW
Geographic Names Board, the Australian federal government, and both
the Queensland and South Australian state governments.
Please feel free to ask me any questions you may have, I look forward
to hearing back from you about this matter.
Sincerely,
Michael Gratton.
[1] - Open Street Map <http://www.openstreetmap.org>
[2] - NSW Suburb boundary Dataset
<https://sdi.nsw.gov.au/sdi.nsw.gov.au/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7B012BD68E-569E-4965-A4B0-48CBBBA64FF4%7D>
[3] - Open Data Commons Open Database License (ODbL)
<http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/
[4] - Copyright and License <http://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright>
[5] - Contributors <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors>
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