[talk-au] National Park & Marine Park boundaries

Matt White mattwhite at iinet.com.au
Thu Dec 18 08:41:59 GMT 2008


Liz wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Matt White wrote:
>   
>> How are people mapping National Park (or state forest or other
>> government mandated areas)? It seems that in a lot of cases, there is no
>> way of actually doing an on the ground survey - a lot of the boundaries
>> aren't marked, the areas can be massively inaccessible etc.
>>
>> Question is: is it legit to use park/forest boundaries taken from
>> government sources? If not, how on earth are we going to solve this
>> little problem?
>>
>> Matt
>>
>>     
> My significant other is trying to obtain national park data as defined lat and 
> long co-ordinates.
> I think that putting points in on co-ordinates which are defined does not 
> infringe anyone's copyright.
>
>   
I have a sneaking suspicion that National Parks and State Forests are 
defined by acts of Parliament at the federal and state levels 
respectively, so the co-ord are probably in Hansard somewhere...

Matt




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