Re: [talk-au] OSM Attribution Q

2022-08-14 Thread Paul Norman via Talk-au
On 2022-08-14 3:23 a.m., Bob Cameron wrote: I likely have this wrong, but worth a question. Looking at petrolspy.com.au website for Theodore Qld and note that the sport and rec ground shows a remarkable similarity to the changes/updates I did 10 months ago, right down to the service road

Re: [talk-au] Multiple web sites linked to car yard

2022-07-28 Thread Paul Norman via Talk-au
On 2022-07-28 4:22 p.m., Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: I saw something similar a little while back when clearing Notes. Same physical premises had 2 businesses operating out of it, one as general scrap metal & the other a car wrecker, but two different names, phone numbers & websites. OK or

Re: [talk-au] Multiple web sites linked to car yard

2022-07-28 Thread Paul Norman via Talk-au
On 2022-07-28 12:29 a.m., nwastra wrote: This mapper has added about a dozen similar businesses to the same car wrecker yard. https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/freecarpickup/history#map=19/-33.93048/150.99878 I assume this is ok as they are linked to the same physical location. It's not okay

Re: [talk-au] "Removing closed or illegal trails." (in Nerang National Park)

2021-10-28 Thread Paul Norman via Talk-au
On 2021-10-28 8:05 p.m., osm.talk...@thorsten.engler.id.au wrote: If it exists on the ground, it gets mapped. If there is no legal access, that's access=no or access=private. If it's a path that has been created by traffic where it's not officially meant to go, it's informal=yes. Yep, this

Re: [talk-au] Ways to map boundaries that won't go into OSM

2019-07-01 Thread Paul Norman via Talk-au
On 2019-06-16 10:26 p.m., Ben Kelley wrote: Hi. A project I have been thinking about for a while is creating a map of Anglican (church) parish boundaries in Australia. In some sense these are like admin boundaries, but the source of the boundary is not easily verifiable. While the resulting

Re: [talk-au] CC 4.0 was Re: Response regarding use of PSMA Administrative Boundaries (Australia)

2016-07-15 Thread Paul Norman
On 7/12/2016 1:50 AM, Simon Poole wrote: - the additional requirement to adhere to the AUS privacy regulations was not addressed in the response, which in itself would be a killer. It depends if it's part of the license or a reminder that in Australia there are other laws that may effect what

Re: [talk-au] CC 4.0 was Re: Response regarding use of PSMA Administrative Boundaries (Australia)

2016-07-15 Thread Paul Norman
On 7/15/2016 7:15 PM, cleary wrote: In regard to the Australian Privacy Principles, I think they have responded to our concern. On this issue, the earlier response stated very clearly that "We can also confirm that OpenStreetMap is not responsible for the actions of your downstream users."

Re: [talk-au] Highway route number prefixes for QLD and NT

2015-11-12 Thread Paul Norman
On 11/11/2015 9:04 PM, Leith Bade wrote: We hope in the future to also make use of route relations, however the key piece of software (osm2pgsql) we use to work with OSM does not support them. osm2pgsql does support route relations, and will in fact import them with the default style.

Re: [talk-au] Unauthorised bike trails in national parks

2015-07-29 Thread Paul Norman
On 7/29/2015 6:52 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: Possibly tag it access=no and rename it to Track closed depending on how widely the name Ant Track is known. It may be known as Ant Track by a very small group of riders. The name might not be Ant Track, but it's almost certainly not Track

Re: [talk-au] Use of mapconnect data in OSM [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2015-04-15 Thread Paul Norman
On 4/15/2015 6:01 AM, Ross wrote: Hi Simon, The issue is not with the licence. The current terms and conditions require permission to add data not owned by the contributor. This is incorrect. An appropriate license is sufficient. Some obviously appropriate licenses are CC0, PDDL, ODC-BY and

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: Australian Government Department of Communications - Geocoded addressing survey [DLM=For-Official-Use-Only]

2015-02-10 Thread Paul Norman
On 2/10/2015 4:32 PM, Andrew Harvey wrote: I've completed their survey from a individual level, however will OSMF be submitting an OSMF response? I'm not 100% across what exact licensing conditions the data would need to be released under to leave open the possibility of incorporating it

Re: [talk-au] City of Melbourne data imports

2014-08-19 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/19/2014 3:42 PM, Daniel Sobey wrote: Hi Steve, There is a lot of open data that could potentially be used from data.gov http://data.gov and state portals. http://www.data.gov.au/ https://www.data.vic.gov.au/ http://data.sa.gov.au/ Much of this was released for the govhack competition

Re: [talk-au] AGRI.openstreetmap.org not working

2014-07-05 Thread Paul Norman
On 2014-07-05 5:03 PM, Ross Scanlon wrote: As the title says agri.openstreetmap.org does not appear to be working. Cheers Ross A number of servers are being moved to a new data center at UCL. See https://blog.openstreetmap.org/ for more info. I believe the move is complete, and everything

Re: [talk-au] Adding residential properties?

2013-12-05 Thread Paul Norman
From: Will Rouesnel [mailto:w.roues...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 1:34 AM To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: [talk-au] Adding residential properties? A simple example starting with my own house - how should residential buildings be tagged? The block they sit on is

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-15 Thread Paul Norman
From: Andrew Harvey [mailto:andrew.harv...@gmail.com] Subject: Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps We'd have to get confirmation that data source was happy with attribution in accordance with ODbL sections 4.2 and 4.3 which are keep intact any copyright or Database Right

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-13 Thread Paul Norman
From: David Bannon [mailto:dban...@internode.on.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 2:13 PM Subject: Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps Then the license holder withdrew the ecw plugin for GDAL... There's still an ECW plugin for GDAL. It requires the third-party SDK and

Re: [talk-au] Vandalism in Sydney OSM data ?

2013-10-26 Thread Paul Norman
He had imported some grid squares into OSM, as well as some earlier stuff that I reverted. That particular changeset and the revert aren't related to the missing stuff. I'm inviting him to come to the lists to discuss their edits. From: Leon Kernan [mailto:lker...@gmail.com] Sent:

Re: [talk-au] Vandalism in Sydney OSM data ?

2013-10-26 Thread Paul Norman
: Leon Kernan [mailto:lker...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 26, 2013 4:04 PM To: Paul Norman Cc: OSM Australian Talk List Subject: Re: [talk-au] Vandalism in Sydney OSM data ? And it looks like you beat me to it :-) On Sun, Oct 27, 2013 at 10:01 AM, Leon Kernan lker...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 74, Issue 7

2013-08-19 Thread Paul Norman
Source tags don't provide any kind of attribution because they can be (and are) removed at any time by any user of the database. Attribution is provided by listing on http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors From: Li Xia [mailto:lisxia1...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, August 19, 2013 5:50

Re: [talk-au] Vicmap data released on data.gov.au

2013-07-07 Thread Paul Norman
From: Nyall Dawson [mailto:nyall.daw...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, July 07, 2013 4:27 PM To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: [talk-au] Vicmap data released on data.gov.au Hi all, I'm not sure if this has been raised yet, but in the last week the entire VicMap dataset was released on

Re: [talk-au] park vs nature reserve

2013-06-25 Thread Paul Norman
From: Andrew Elwell [mailto:andrew.elw...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 12:43 AM To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: [talk-au] park vs nature reserve Can someone point me to guidelines for where the .au distinction between the two lies? I'm trying to map piney lakes (see

Re: [talk-au] park vs nature reserve

2013-06-25 Thread Paul Norman
From: SomeoneElse [mailto:li...@mail.atownsend.org.uk] Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2013 1:47 AM To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [talk-au] park vs nature reserve Paul Norman wrote: It's important to remember that leisure=park doesn't apply to all parks. I'm guessing

Re: [talk-au] data.sa.gov.au

2013-05-25 Thread Paul Norman
The only issue with CC BY is that some data owners believe that attribution reasonable to the medium is more than the ODbL guarantees which allows notices in a location . where users would be likely to look for it such as a wiki page linked from /copyright or in the case of produced works, a

Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap in Government

2013-05-10 Thread Paul Norman
From: David [mailto:dban...@internode.on.net] Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 10:48 PM Subject: Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap in Government Further, so much OSM data ends up in a psql database, one column per tag. Believe it or not, psql does not like having column names start with numerals. It

Re: [talk-au] Historical rail lines

2012-11-28 Thread Paul Norman
Actually, the slope is slippery. People have made it about old roads. There are people who have mapped old roads where they have been completely developed over and no trace remains. Mapping the traces of an old rail line isn't historical mapping. If there are currently traces there then it's

Re: [talk-au] Historical rail lines

2012-11-25 Thread Paul Norman
From: Alex Sims [mailto:a...@softgrow.com] Subject: Re: [talk-au] Historical rail lines On 26/11/2012 10:38 AM, mick wrote: I'm in two minds about removing 'historical' data. Yes, objects no longer visible on the ground shouldn't be rendered on the map. I've been following this

Re: [talk-au] [Imports] Importing locality names from GeoScience Australia dataset.

2012-10-27 Thread Paul Norman
Hello, If you're considering importing you need to read http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines and make sure that you've followed all of the steps before uploading anything else. One of these is talking with the local community, which is why I've cc'ed talk-au@ on this