All confirmed - let the fun begin. cheers
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Franc Carter <franc.car...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I just had a conversation with a really helpful person at the ABS. > > She indicated that the ABS is taking a view of the data that is very > similar/compatible > with (at least my understanding) the view that OpenStreetMap is taking > towards the > data. > > Specifically she indicated that the ABS was not specifically concerned that > attribution was > done in a specific manner, just that the attribution was able to be found. > She will put > something in an email so that we have an official statement. > > So, it looks like we may well have a some valuable data to add, which is > good because > I already spent a couple of hours working out hot to import it ;-) > > There are two issues that I have come across with converting to osm:- > > 1. What way do we want to represent the data, e.g closed ways or > relations consisting > of borders - something else ? > > 2. The more technical problem that the boundaries are defined fairly > precisely (or more accurately > there are lots of points defining the boundaries). So the .osm file > is very large - so eyeballing > it in josm is not going to work. > > So I'm interested in people's suggestions of how we want to represent the > data and on methods we can > use to sanity check the data before we upload it. > > cheers > > > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:23 AM, James Churchill <pel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Franc Carter <franc.car...@...> writes: >> >> > While putting together an email for this I came across an issue. >> > Currently OSM is Creative Commons licensed which looks pretty compatible >> with >> > their license (ignoring the practicalities of attribution). However the >> license > is being discussed at the moment and may well soon change and/or >> split. >> > Should I wait until the license issue gets 'sorted' ? >> >> I don't see a problem - the CC license the data is under only requires >> attribution, it doesn't restrict what the license of the derivative work >> is. And >> as OSM is looking for a license that (and I quote) "needs to give our >> database >> the same three basic licensing elements (freely copiable; share-alike; >> attribution required) as it has at present" there's little worry of OSM >> becoming >> incompatible. >> >> At least, the matter shouldn't delay inquiries :) >> >> - James >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Talk-au mailing list >> Talk-au@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >> > > > > -- > Franc > -- Franc
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