<div dir="auto"><div>I made an enquiry to DNRM about this exactly back in June.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The response I got was:</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;padding:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);letter-spacing:0.1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri',sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">We have given consideration to your request and advise that, consistent with Queensland Government policy, our data is provided under a CC:BY 4.0 Licence. The department will not provide the data under an ODbl licence. It is our belief that a CC:BY licence is sufficient for use of our data and we do not accept that OpenStreetMap cannot use our data under the CC:BY licence.</span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;padding:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);letter-spacing:0.1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri',sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"> </span></p><p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;padding:0px;font-size:12pt;font-family:"times new roman",serif;color:rgb(31,31,31);letter-spacing:0.1px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:'calibri',sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">If you have any questions or I can be of any further assistance please feel free to contact me by any of the methods below.</span></p></div><br><div class="gmail_extra">So in the end I didn't get the waiver form OSMF requires, yet DNRM believes we can use CC BY 4.0 data in OSM without it, in conflict with what the OSMF says. I don't feel this is good enough, but I'm not a lawyer so I left it at that. </div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto">If anyone can help pick this up again, I feel we have a good chance of it happening. </div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto">DNRM are very responsive to enquiries like this, which is great. </div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra" dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto">On 1 Oct. 2017 4:50 pm, "Andrew Harvey" <<a href="mailto:andrew.harvey4@gmail.com">andrew.harvey4@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto">Unfortunately not. CC BY 4.0 data isn't compatible with the OSM license, see <a href="https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2017/03/17/use-of-cc-by-data/" target="_blank">https://blog.<wbr>openstreetmap.org/2017/03/17/<wbr>use-of-cc-by-data/</a> for more details.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">There is a waiver form at that link which the copyright holder needs to agree and sign for CC BY 4.0 data to be used in OSM.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Some Australian agencies have agreed to this, and others have explicitly not agreed to this, so it's hit and miss based on the agency.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="elided-text">On 1 Oct. 2017 4:29 pm, "Graeme Fitzpatrick" <<a href="mailto:graemefitz1@gmail.com" target="_blank">graemefitz1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="elided-text"><div dir="ltr">G'day all<div><br></div><div>I've just come across an online Qld topo map, published by Dept of Natural Resources.</div><div><br></div><div>Map is at <a href="http://qtopo.dnrm.qld.gov.au/Mobile/" target="_blank">http://qtopo.dnrm.qld.gov.a<wbr>u/Mobile/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Also makes reference to copyright being licensed under CC BY 4.0: <a href="https://www.dnrm.qld.gov.au/legal/copyright" target="_blank">https://www.dnrm.qld.gov.<wbr>au/legal/copyright</a>, & includes</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,"sans serif";font-size:13.3px">Under this licence you are free to use this information in accordance with the licence terms without having to seek permission from our department. You must keep the copyright notice intact and attribute the State of Queensland as the source of the material."</span></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans serif"><span style="font-size:13.3px"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans serif"><span style="font-size:13.3px">Does that mean we can use it?</span></font></div><div><font color="#333333" face="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans serif"><span style="font-size:13.3px"><br clear="all"></span></font><div><div class="m_-1451699332427234606m_8388565726505852223gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Thanks<div><br></div><div>Graeme</div><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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