The letter has been transcribed and can be accessed at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution/New_South_Wales_Goverment_Data
On Sun, Dec 6, 2015, at 09:16 AM, Nathanael Coyne wrote: > Excellent news - can you please publish here the actual wording > from LPI? > > > > Nathanael Coyne www.purecaffeine.com[1] > Canberra, Australia 0431 698 580 > > On 6 December 2015 at 09:12, cleary <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have approached the NSW Government and have received permission for >> OpenStreetMap to use specified data from Land and Property Information >> NSW. >> >> I have added the appropriate attribution in the Contributors page of the >> wiki under New South Wales Government data and it includes a link >> ("explicit permission") to a transcription of the correspondence >> received, so that the details of the specified permission and requested >> attribution can be scrutinised. >> >> I do not have the skills to import whole datasets safely but it is my >> intention to utilise individual items of data where I can do so when >> editing OSM. I also recognise the dangers in importing data on a >> wholesale basis, for example the official NSW suburb boundaries (as >> shown in LPI data) are not the same as the ABS approximations which have >> already been included in some places and there would be scope for >> serious conflict of data if this particular LPI dataset were to be >> imported without a lot of care. >> >> Is there anything else that needs to be done in regard to appropriate >> publication of permission in the wiki? >> >> I trust other users editing the New South Wales map will be interested >> in this new (and very rich) source of data. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-au mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au Links: 1. http://www.purecaffeine.com/
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