On 3 December 2011 08:06, Ian Sergeant <inas66+...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Dec 3, 2011 10:48 AM, "Steve Bennett" <stevag...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > To play Devil's Advocate here, does anyone actually want the suburb > > boundaries retained (or reimported)? To me, they've always been a big > > pain in the arse. > > I don't think it is being devil's advocate. > > OSM shouldn't be a dumping ground for freely licensed data and this data > would be much more useful outside the OSM DB because updates are more > likely from the ABS than the OSM community. Before importing data I think > there is a requirement to show how it can be usefully maintained by the OSM > community. The current ABS data will expire like the 2006 one has. > > A compatible license would still make it useful for tracing roads, rivers > etc when appropriate as a background layer in josm, potlatch etc. > > Ian. >
What would be ideal is if it could be implemented as a layer, simply turn that layer off if you do not want it. This also neatly sidesteps people inadvertently editing this data, they simply cannot.
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