Well I'm waiting on licencing of the ABS data as it seems unclear if this is covered by data.gov.au's ok as it predates data.gov.au .
Even if ABS data turns out to have an incompatible licence, I hope to have time closer to the official cut-out date to save whatever data I easily can. Hundreds of my edits predate ABS data or are un-impacted by nearby ABS data. I doubt I am alone in waiting on developments and I expect others who currently have rejected the terms plan to revisit their decision closer the final date. So if you delete my data now just to make it new licence compatible you are reducing the quality of the data for no reason. This of course does not apply to those resurveying the deleted items in entirety and replacing the items and all their tags with their own work. I may not like all or agree with OSMFs decisions but they do seem to me to be considered. I suspect the long wait for the cut-over is so licence incompatibilities have a chance to be worked out as data.gov.au was recently. We just all need to be patient. <joke>remember being premature often leaves partners disappointed</joke> -----Original Message----- From: Richard Weait [mailto:rich...@weait.com] Sent: Friday, 2 December 2011 12:42 PM To: OSM Australian Talk List Subject: Re: [talk-au] A way to go On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Andrew Laughton <laughton.and...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2 December 2011 07:20, John Henderson <snow...@gmx.com> wrote: >> >> On 02/12/11 09:00, Richard Weait wrote: >> >>> Deleting tainted data and remapping by local mappers is far superior >>> to waiting until March 31 and running a script. >>> >>> So removing data from decliners and remapping it, and reaching out >>> to those who haven't yet responded is valid and valuable. > > Unless the decliners change their mind, which is very likely to happen > if government data can be used after all. That was answered some time ago. data.gov.au (did I get the order right?) is happy to have OSM using their data. There are imports still in question in Australia, but if those who imported them aren't going to come forward with information about the source or license there is little to do but remove the data. > I would like a copy of the map before these deletes are made for my > GPS, has someone done this before these deletes were done ? Then you'll want to look at any of the planet files from the dates that interest you, or if you want to go straight to the gps, some folks create full planet files for some formats of gps every few weeks. There are usually a few versions archived as well. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
