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

[Paul Norman]

On 12/5/2015 11:17 PM, cleary wrote:
> 1. The requested acknowledgement, as specified by LPI, applies only to 
> the information in the "Contributors" page of the wiki, not to the 
> tags of each data item.  I think the source tag for each data item 
> should be shorter but accurate e.g "NSW Base Map, LPI" or "NSW Points 
> of Interest, LPI" etc.
> 2. Like one other mapper, I am also a little uncertain about including 
> the date, however that is what has been requested and it is a small 
> price to pay for access to such rich data. Where a whole dataset is 
> imported on a particular date, it clearly makes sense but would seem 
> less practical where data is extracted on an ongoing basis. Unless any 
> clarification of this is received and since the stated intent of LPI 
> was to indicate to users where data may be not the most recent, I 
> suggest we use the earliest date on which data is taken from a dataset 
> but then add an amended date if, at any time, an update of the entire 
> dataset is imported into OSM. For example the current local government 
> boundaries are to be extensively re-drawn in the next 6-9 months and 
> it would be important to show whether any local government boundaries 
> imported from LPI are the soon-to-be-obsolete 2015 version or a 
> subsequent version.

When we're talking about source tags, we should use whatever is useful 
for mappers. In theory source date tags can be useful, but in practice 
I've not seen them worth the bother.