[talk-au] license change map

Sam Vekemans acrosscanadatrails at gmail.com
Sun Nov 21 06:12:04 GMT 2010


Yup,
geocommons.com does this.
Just upload the data (in small pieces) to geocommons, and the
community can use the data as layers, searching for what i available.


I use openJUMP, an easy program to learn, to view shp files, and
extract a small area and separating it from feature attribute.



cheers,
sam

On 11/20/10, Neil Penman <ianaf4you at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Wouldn't this problem be easier to manage if each CC-BY data source was kept
> in
> separate data store which is combined as a layer on the client or tile
> server?
> These layers could then be attributed when or if they  are actually shown.
> This
> would also simplify the situation where data such as the postcode boundaries
> is
> being attributed to the ABS but has been changed by an OSM mapper, possibly
> not
> for the better, as well as allowing us to easily incorporate updates.
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Alex (Maxious) Sadleir <maxious at gmail.com>
> To: OSM Australian Talk List <talk-au at openstreetmap.org>
> Sent: Sun, 21 November, 2010 3:13:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [talk-au] license change map
>
> ...
>
> There was a issue being explored about the fact that the Contributor
> Terms (rather than ODbL itself) allowed relicencing but didn't
> explicitly ensure that attribution was maintained:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License/Contributor_Terms/Open_Issues#Incompatibility_with_CC-BY_.2F_Attribution_Data
>
> Attribution is a big thing to comply with the spirit of the government
> data releases but the respondent on that wiki page states "Should a
> data donor feel that this [attribution on derived works] is important,
> then probably that data should not be in OSM, no matter what license
> we use.".
> This seems out of touch with the situation on the ground; one of the
> big things any data donor is going to get out of providing their data
> is free advertising for how public minded they are. I would think the
> better solution is to have the attribution simplified like Google Maps
> does. eg. Google Maps for canberra says "Copyright PSMA, MapQuest"
> etc. OSM post-ODbL could have a technical solution that suggests to
> derivative users (Mapnik etc.) if you want to make a map of data
> between -35.15, 149.00 and -35.3, 149.25, it should have "Source: OSM
> Contributors, ABS, Geoscience Australia" on it. In the case of
> Australia, we also have stuff like the Service Stations and I don't
> know the attribution requirements on those but I'm sure that there
> aren't so many data imports that there would be difficulty attributing
> them when they are visible. ie. The ABS suburbs aren't visible on a
> world map but the UN coastline boundaries are so give credit where
> credit is due.
>
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