[talk-au] [Imports] Importing locality names from GeoScience Australia dataset.

[Ross Scanlon]

On 27/10/12 18:52, Chris Barham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Li Xia <lisxia1982 at gmail.com
> <mailto:lisxia1982 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> <SNIP>
>
>     1. Can anyone suggest tags other than the following?
>     name:<different>
>     place:locality
>     source: © Commonwealth of Australia (GeoScience Australia) 2006.
>
>     2. Using JOSM at the moment and uploads take a while, is there a
>     better way of bulk uploading data?
>
>     </SNIP>
>
>
> Some questions for you:
> 1) Can you post a link to the source data and licence?
> 2) that copyright tag looks ominous, are you sure it's licenced
> appropriately for import to OSM?
> a) The site http://ga.gov.au has a footer that says:
> "Unless otherwise noted, all Geoscience Australia material on this
> website is licensed
> under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence."
> I believe this may not compatible with OSM...


CC-By-SA 3.0 Australia Licence is not automatic permission to use it in 
an ODBL database.

Cheers
Ross


> b) ...Unless you got the data from http://data.gov.au/ for which
> OSM has obtained rights to import