[talk-au] Explicit Permission to use NSW Land and Property Information data

[Nathanael Coyne]

Excellent news - can you please publish here the actual wording from LPI?



Nathanael Coyne

www.purecaffeine.com

Canberra, Australia
0431 698 580

On 6 December 2015 at 09:12, cleary <osm at 97k.com> wrote:

>
> I have approached the NSW Government and have received permission for
> OpenStreetMap to use specified data from Land and Property Information
> NSW.
>
> I have added the appropriate attribution in the Contributors page of the
> wiki under New South Wales Government data and it includes a link
> ("explicit permission") to a transcription of the correspondence
> received, so that the details of the specified permission and requested
> attribution can be scrutinised.
>
> I do not have the skills to import whole datasets safely but it is my
> intention to utilise individual items of data where I can do so when
> editing OSM. I also recognise the dangers in importing data on a
> wholesale basis, for example the official NSW suburb boundaries (as
> shown in LPI data) are not the same as the ABS approximations which have
> already been included in some places and there would be scope for
> serious conflict of data if this particular LPI dataset were to be
> imported without a lot of care.
>
> Is there anything else that needs to be done in regard to appropriate
> publication of permission in the wiki?
>
> I trust other users editing the New South Wales map will be interested
> in this new (and very rich) source of data.
>
>
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