On 11/07/2011 8:08 PM, Simon Poole wrote:
It's really up to -them- to remedy the mistakes -they- made (ABS2006
import and similar).
I'm sad to think you characterise ABS2006 as a "mistake".
*** Warning - some licensing discussion follows ***
ABS2006 is a CC BY dataset isn't it?
While I haven't been following many of the latest arguments, for me it
seems the "irreconcilable differences" stem from:
* The Australian Government is in love with the CC By and related CC
licences for any Australian publicly funded information, refer
www.ausgoal.gov.au for the latest incarnation of this policy.
* AusGov seem to have no problem with the use of CC By for databases.
* Mappers are in love with the highest quality open representation of
the map possible (I assume).
* If ABS2006 is a mistake licensing-wise, then it would be a mistake to
import any Australian Government geodata into OSM these days.
* Some of these AusGov geodatasets are hard to simulate any other way
(e.g. land parcels and suburb boundaries).
* The move away from CC By-SA materially reduces the quality available
to the OSM map in Australia - both from Government and Nearmap sources.
* People get cranky if their perceived quality of life gets threatened -
the quality of the OSM data in Australia being a proxy for this in the
Australian OSMming community.
This is the main reason why I created CommonMap. I am not interested in
share-alike (geodata that is freely published cannot be "taken") and I
am interested in the highest quality open representation of the map
possible. It seems, for better or for worse, that there is no longer a
way to do this using OSM in the Australian context.
Brendan
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