I completely agree with you that the blanket data.gov.au permission doesn't sit right, and we should be getting the source agency to grant additional terms to their license that attribution can be done on the Contributors wiki page.
On 16 March 2017 at 09:33, Andrew Davidson <thesw...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sigh...I was hoping that no-one would ever re-open the data.gov.au > permission can of worms. > > The general view is that to use CC-BY data in OSM we need explicit > permission from the *rights holder* > (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/ODbL_Compatibility). data.gov.au > is a dataset aggregation system, they are not the rights holder for any of > the datasets listed (other than possibly the PSMA datasets). In this case > the rights holder is the Gold Coast Council so you need to get permission > from them. > > In fact if you want to list your datasets on data.gov.au you have explicitly > state that you understand that DPMC takes no responsibility: > > https://toolkit.data.gov.au/index.php?title=Starting_on_datagovau#Creating_and_editing_your_organisations_information_and_data_categorisation > > Which is kind of the opposite of transferring any rights to them. > > For those who want a hair-raising read you can check out the list discussion > from way back at the licence change under the subject "ODbL data.gov.au > permission granted": > > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2011-September/thread.html > > through to about Dec 2011. > > > > On 15/3/17 23:13, Andrew Harvey wrote: >> >> On Mon, 13 Mar 2017, at 05:38 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: >>> >>> G'day all >>> >>> A while back, mentioned about using Gold Coast City Council data. >>> >>> Been too many other things going on to contact them, but just looked into >> >> it again & found this new page: >> http://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au/open-data-access-project-21818.html >>> >>> >>> Could some clever person please translate it into OSM for me? :-) >>> >>> Also tried to send an e-mail to their listed address & it's spat back as >> >> undeliverable to a different GCCC address? >> >> I believe the consensus is we can include the data at >> http://data.gov.au/organization/city-of-gold-coast per >> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution/data.gov.au_explicit_permission >> . >> >> If you're planning on importing Gold Coast City Council data into OSM, you >> can read through https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines. >> >> I'm interested to know which datasets you plan to import, your mapping of >> the tags, and the process you'll use (will you manually merge existing >> objects?) >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-au mailing list >> Talk-au@openstreetmap.org >> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >> > _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
