[talk-au] Vicmap data copying

[Steve Bennett]

Hi Nick,
  From Li Xia's email on 10/10/13: "I had a meeting with Vicmap staff today
in regards to importing Vicmap data into OSM under the CC license. They are
very excited about the community showing interest in their data and are
have clarified that importing it is fine."

I'm not clear on whether we need to add any attribution tags, but for now
when I trace stuff from Vicmap, I just add "source=vicmap".

IMHO some small scale imports may be useful, but from my comparisons, the
VicMap data is not necessarily "better" than OSM. It often has stuff OSM
doesn't, but sometimes that includes spurious stuff like roads that no
longer exist, never did, etc.

Steve


On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 4:55 PM, Nick Hocking <nick.hocking at gmail.com>wrote:

> Am I correct in saying that it is permissable to copy street names from
> the VicMap into OSM?
> Also - what about the house numbers, is that ok as well?
>
> I have neither the time, talent or inclination to do an import of house
> numbers, but would help out in any manual effort to add all house numbers
> for Victoria
> into OSM. Is such an import envisaged because, if so, then I wouldn't want
> to muddy the waters by starting to manually add them.
>
> Also - I remember someone saying that Gold Coast roade name data was
> available. Is this available yet for josm or potlach since I would love to
> get the rest
> of the roads named up there?
>
> Cheers
> Nick
>
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