[talk-au] CC-BY geodatasets now appearing on Information Queensland

[Sam Vekemans]

Hi,

Here's the link to it.

http://dds.information.qld.gov.au/dds/

My guess would be that the Government departments that still sell the
datasets, probably just need to wait until contracts are up from all
of the people who purchased data.

So to be fair, if i was one of those people who paid for the data,
then the next week saw that the very same data is given for free.  I'd
probably want to get a refund.
.... so perhaps they need to wait until the dataset purchased get old,
and out of date to be made available?
.....or maybe they need to wait until a change in government for this to happen?

It would be great to see the data available from the ftp server
directly... but that would be too easy. :)

On the todo-list, is to cross-reference with the National GeoScience
Austrailia data and see where their is duplication.  The assumption is
that it would be derived from the same source, but just older.
Can anyone verify this?

Thanks,
Sam

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On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Brendan Morley <morb.gis at beagle.com.au> wrote:
> Hello Australian Mappers,
>
> I've just noticed a few of the datasets on Information Queensland now
> have the CC BY endorsement and not just the DERM Open Short Licence
> (which for example prohibits redistribution).
>
> They seem to be just the datasets that DERM and GA have exclusive IP
> rights to, e.g.:
>
> Locality Boundaries
> LGA Boundaries
> Place Names Gazetteer
> Ordered Drainage
>
> Examples still on DERM Open Short Licence:
>
> Property Addresses
> Property Boundaries
> Elevation Contours
>
>
> Brendan
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