Hello, On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:03:48 +0000, "Andy Allan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> land information new zealand is a government org that holds data on >> roads and properties for the entirety of new zealand. they have >> recently given permission to use their data sets in osm, with a caveat >> that we include an attribution statement: >> >> "Contains data sourced from Land Information New Zealand. Crown >> Copyright reserved. Land Information New Zealand gives no warranty in >> relation to the data, including its accuracy, reliability and >> suitability and accepts no liability whatsoever in relation to any >> loss, damage or other costs relating to the use of any data, any >> compilations, derivative works or modifications of the data". > > Aargh. This is so close to being extremely useful. But if that's going > to be a requirement for my cycle map to display that, and all the > sites that use the main slippy map, or those embedding the cycle map > tiles, and the garmin.img files need to display that, and trekbuddy > needs to display that, then there'll be a strong demand for a weekly > planet-no-NZ.osm.bz2, which is not exactly what we want to happen!
What if we upload all of that data under a particular username? In that sense they are getting attribution as much as any other contributor to OSM. I wonder if they would be happy with their notice going on the OSM wiki, with a note pointing to that under their user account and any OSM wiki pages about NZ? Tata, Tom _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
