I have been doing some mapping in New Zealand recently, and came across the
page which discusses a potential import of all the roads and streets in New
Zealand in one fell swoop, thanks to Land Information New Zealand/LINZ giving
the go-ahead for this.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/LINZ
It appears to be hanging on a minor technicality, ie attribution of the
datasource. Since this is potentially a huge advance for New Zealand mapping,
what is exactly the sticking point, ie do LINZ really require a notification on
the map while being browsed? Or is just having the attribution on a message
somewhere (e.g. a wiki page, or even a link to that page as an attribute on
each node/way etc)? The distinction is fairly important here, since
attributions are common elsewhere too. For example there is a Berkley
University attribution tucked away in all copies of Windows to acknowledg the
use of the TCP/IP stack.
If this is actually stuck, can someone please update the wiki page with a
summary of the stumbling block? It doesn't seem clear from the wiki page what
LINZ really want, since the attribution text can be included somewhere in the
dataset or linked from it.
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