[talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

[Alex (Maxious) Sadleir]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:42 AM, David Murn <davey at incanberra.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 11:14 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote:
>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:15 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > The current boundaries will be removed in the near future, so if I
>> > were you I wouldn't spend to much time fussing over them.
>>
>> Oh? Do tell?
>
> All ABS boundaries (infact all .au government provided data that has
> been imported.. toilets, bbqs, hospitals/police stations) will be
> removed because theyre all distributed under CC licence, which is not
> compatible with the licence OSMF are trying to introduce at the
> moment.
>
> That is the reason why very little effort has been expended mapping
> Australia lately, until we know what skeleton of data we'll have left to
> work with after the changeover.

I discovered you can click on the country names on odbl.de.
http://odbl.de/australia-oceania.html (Warning, very large page as it
has every user).
We're put in with the kiwis which is interesting because their data
import account is also undecided on CT/ODbL.

Anyway, ABS data (suburbs/cities/state boundaries etc.) is the largest
sole contributor making up 15% of all nodes. 64% of contributors have
accepted CT but only 50% of the ways/nodes at last edit (so that's
even including users who modified something CC licenced).