Re: [OSM-talk] NZ LINZ data import and attribution

2009-02-04 Thread Robert (Jamie) Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Hughes wrote: Joe Richards wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-talk] NZ LINZ data import and attribution

2009-02-04 Thread andrzej zaborowski
2009/2/4 Robert (Jamie) Munro rjmu...@arjam.net: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom Hughes wrote: Joe Richards wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-talk] NZ LINZ data import and attribution

2009-02-04 Thread Joe Richards
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

Re: [OSM-talk] NZ LINZ data import and attribution

2009-02-04 Thread Joe Richards
A more serious problem with that would probably be that OSM in turn would have to require anyone who reuses OSM data to also show the attribution on the map. This would make OSM practically useless for users such as GPS vendors, and also would have to be mentioned in license terms. So I think we

Re: [OSM-talk] NZ LINZ data import and attribution

2009-02-04 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Joe Richards wrote: I think this might be taking attribution too literally. Just because Google Maps does this for the copyright holder, doesn't mean that LINZ insists on the same. Can anyone substantiate that LINZ actually require this to be on-screen at all times when LINZ data is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] NZ LINZ data import and attribution

2009-02-03 Thread Tom Hughes
Joe Richards wrote: 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

Re: [OSM-talk] NZ LINZ data import and attribution

2009-02-03 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Joe Richards wrote: 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. This took

[OSM-talk] NZ LINZ data import and attribution

2009-02-03 Thread Joe Richards
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

Re: [OSM-talk] NZ LINZ data import and attribution

2009-02-03 Thread Andreas Fritsche
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi [..] The big problem with all these data sets that require attribution is not adding the attribution [..] but making sure that nobody deletes that attribution in the future. Makes me think about WORM-attributes. This costs some effort on