[talk-au] Boundary ways/relations
Liz
edodd at billiau.net
Sat Dec 5 23:34:49 GMT 2009
On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, James Livingston wrote:
> On 05/12/2009, at 7:10 AM, Ben Kelley wrote:
> > In places where this is the case, and there is no good survey data for
> > the creek, I generally re-use the way to be the creek as well.
>
> This is what I've been doing. If I know there is a currently unmapped
> creek/river which roughly follows the boundary, I'll re-use the boundary
> because I don't have anything better, but I'm wary of moving anything that
> is already mapped, because it might not be the same as the boundary.
This is what we are doing, but if everything attributed ABS2006 was removed
from the database, we're up the creek without a paddle.
I feel very strongly about this, and vague reassurances that OSMF will talk to
people like the AU government to get the stuff under an alternate licence
belongs in la-la land.
I've met those bureaucrats (in general). They are nice people, but even if
they were agreeable I would estimate 5 years for relicensing. If they were not
agreeable it would be filed forever.
James has pointed out that the Au guvmint decision to license the geo-data
under CC-by-SA is good evidence that the licence is not "broken" in Australia.
Liz
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