Exactly as Ian's said. We have permission to use Vicmap CC BY data, you can search on https://www.data.vic.gov.au/. It looks like a few state forest and public land data is available.
On Mon, 18 Oct 2021, 12:08 pm Little Maps, <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, can I offer a different spin on this - interested to hear > feedback. I think the question of whether we have permission to use > MapShare is inappropriate. (And hence the original changeset comment is > inaccurate). MapShare is just a data portal. We have permission to use a > number of Vic gov datasets in OSM, as listed on the permissions waiver wiki > (eg the roads dataset). The Vic gov provides these datasets to the public > in a range of ways, including as GIS datasets, on the MapShare page and the > VicNames register, amongst others. > > > Hence we have explicit permission to use *some* of the data that is shown > on the MapShare site (roads, POI, etc), but not all of it. Similarly, we > have permission to use some of the data shown on the VicNames register, but > not everything that is shown on the register. > > > This makes it really hard for users to judge which info we can and can’t > use, but there’s probably not a simple way around that. The key question > here, imo, is whether we have permission to use the dataset that contains > the State Forests boundaries. > > > If we do, then the data could be accessed through Mapshare or any other > means. If we don’t, then the official boundaries can’t be obtained from any > available source. That’s how I interpret it, but I’m basing this > interpretation off the fact that we need to seek permission to use each > dataset, not the portal it is obtained from. Hope that makes sense. Curious > to hear how others view things. Thanks for raising the question Andrew. > Cheers Ian > > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
_______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
