[talk-au] Bulk loading all the Australian Statistical Geography Standard into the OSM - a query from the Australian Bureau of Statistics [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-02-22 Thread Marcus Blake
To the Australian OSM community, The Australian Bureau of Statistics has recent published the first part of a new statistical geography, the Australia Statistical Geography Standard or ASGS for short. The boundaries are based on a new basic spatial unit called a mesh block which have been

Re: [talk-au] Bulk loading all the Australian Statistical Geography Standard into the OSM - a query from the Australian Bureau of Statistics [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-02-22 Thread Simon Biber
Marcus Blake marcus.bl...@abs.gov.au wrote Wed, 23 February, 2011 11:31:50: From the ABS point of view the principle reason for doing this is that an the OSM database would hold a copy of the official version of the boundaries and that this point of truth would be available for all OSM users

Re: [talk-au] Bulk loading all the Australian Statistical Geography Standard into the OSM - a query from the Australian Bureau of Statistics [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-02-22 Thread Andrew Laughton
Hi Marcus Unfortunately OSM has recently forced a change to it's licence agreement to a version where attribution is not required on any copies that are made of OSM data, probably to appease Microsoft and Bing maps who will then be free to charge for these maps, with no attribution at all.

Re: [talk-au] Bulk loading all the Australian Statistical Geography Standard into the OSM - a query from the Australian Bureau of Statistics [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-02-22 Thread John Smith
On 23 February 2011 11:35, Simon Biber simonbi...@yahoo.com.au wrote: of OSM is released under CC-BY-SA which is an attribution license compatible with CC-BY. The attribution includes a link to a list of data providers and contributors on www.openstreetmap.org in which ABS is listed. As of

Re: [talk-au] Bulk loading all the Australian Statistical Geography Standard into the OSM - a query from the Australian Bureau of Statistics [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-02-22 Thread David Murn
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 10:38 +0800, Andrew Laughton wrote: Hi Marcus Unfortunately OSM has recently forced a change to it's licence agreement to a version where attribution is not required on any copies that are made of OSM data, probably to appease Microsoft and Bing maps who will then be

[talk-au] Fwd: [Aust-NZ] Re: [nzopengis] Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team activation?

2011-02-22 Thread John Smith
FYI -- Forwarded message -- From: Hamish hamis...@yahoo.com Date: 23 February 2011 12:20 Subject: [Aust-NZ] Re: [nzopengis] Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team activation? To: aust...@lists.osgeo.org By the way, the URL for the active Ushahidi* instance is http://eq.org.nz Zoom in