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

cleary osm at 97k.com
Sat Dec 5 22:21:46 UTC 2015


The letter has been transcribed and can be accessed at
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution/New_South_Wales_Goverment_Data


On Sun, Dec 6, 2015, at 09:16 AM, Nathanael Coyne wrote:
> Excellent news - can you please publish here the actual wording
> from LPI?
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> Nathanael Coyne www.purecaffeine.com[1]


> Canberra, Australia 0431 698 580

>
> On 6 December 2015 at 09:12, cleary <osm at 97k.com> wrote:
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I have approached the NSW Government and have received permission for
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OpenStreetMap to use specified data from Land and Property Information
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NSW.
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I have added the appropriate attribution in the Contributors page of the
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wiki under New South Wales Government data and it includes a link
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("explicit permission") to a transcription of the correspondence
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received, so that the details of the specified permission and requested
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attribution can be scrutinised.
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I do not have the skills to import whole datasets safely but it is my
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intention to utilise individual items of data where I can do so when
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editing OSM. I also recognise the dangers in importing data on a
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wholesale basis, for example the official NSW suburb boundaries (as
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shown in LPI data) are not the same as the ABS approximations which have
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already been included in some places and there would be scope for
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serious conflict of data if this particular LPI dataset were to be
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imported without a lot of care.
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Is there anything else that needs to be done in regard to appropriate
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publication of permission in the wiki?
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I trust other users editing the New South Wales map will be interested
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in this new (and very rich) source of data.
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