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

2015-04-15 Thread Andrew Harvey
On 15 April 2015 at 23:01, Ross i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: The issue is not with the licence. The current terms and conditions require permission to add data not owned by the contributor. Is there a source for this statement? I was under the assumption that in order to contribute data

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

2015-04-15 Thread Ross
On 15/04/15 23:14, Andrew Harvey wrote: On 15 April 2015 at 23:01, Ross i...@4x4falcon.com mailto:i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: The issue is not with the licence. The current terms and conditions require permission to add data not owned by the contributor. Is there a source for

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] Use of mapconnect data in OSM [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2015-04-15 Thread Simon . Costello
The data in Mapconnect can be up to 8 years old. It originally came from both CAPAD and the states/territories, and was generalised to be consistent with a cartographic map at a scale of 1:250,000. CAPAD has come from the states / territories, and probably from the national park authorities

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

2015-04-06 Thread Andrew Harvey
On 5 April 2015 at 19:38, Warren war...@specialtyfeeds.com.au wrote: I was looking for a way to import National Park Boundaries into OSM. The data is there but, lets face it the licensing issues are so complex that I do not know if we are allowed. Indeed. I've been using the CAPAD database

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

2015-04-06 Thread Ross
I did not say that you can't import it, just that you need permission from the data owner to do so and you need to advise them that it's going into a different licence. Cheers Ross On 6 April 2015 at 10:40, Ross i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: With the current terms and conditions you need to

[talk-au] Use of mapconnect data in OSM (Ross)

2015-04-06 Thread Warren
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Re: [talk-au] Use of mapconnect data in OSM

2015-04-05 Thread Ross
With the current terms and conditions you need to have permission of the work owner to add it to the database. Something that is licenced CC-BY-SA does not imply permission. There have been numerous debates on this pre and post licence change in 2012 See here for an example of what has been

[talk-au] Use of mapconnect data in OSM

2015-04-05 Thread Warren
Can someone in the know talk with me about mapconnect? http://mapconnect.ga.gov.au/MapConnect/index.jsp The licensing statement at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/legalcode and the human readable version seem to me to indicate that its use is OK provided you give appropriate