On 10 July 2016 at 14:06, cleary <o...@97k.com> wrote: > Feedback from the legal-talk list is that the reply from the Department > of Prime Minister and Cabinet is not sufficient and therefore we cannot > use PSMA datasets in OSM. > > As far as I can ascertain, the lines on the Contributors page of the > wiki, referring to PSMA boundaries, were added by a user named Reubot a > little over three months ago. However a search for this user returned a > result that there was no user of this name - I'm not sure how that > works and someone else may understand how this could be so. This user > also added Brisbane City Council as a source in the Contributors page so > someone may wish to check if that data is actually permitted in OSM > either. I'm not sure how much data was actually added to OSM from PSMA > by this user or anyone else. > > I would like to delete the lines on the Contributors page of the wiki, > referring to PSMA boundaries, unless there are objections. As an > amatuer/novice, I was almost misled into thinking that inclusion of a > source in the Contributors page gave me a green light to use that source > and I fear it may mislead others if the information is left there. > > For the same reason I would also like to remove the reference to the NSW > Geographic Names Board - we discussed that source within recent months > and it seems we do not have the necessary permission for that either. > This is not a significant problem as the same GNB data and much more is > in the LPI NSW data for which we do have explicit permission. > > Any comments on my proposal to delete lines from the Contributors page > of the wiki?
Sounds good to me. Anyone making maps/apps can supplement OSM with the PSMA Admin Bdys, if they want to. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
