[talk-au] Response regarding use of PSMA Administrative Boundaries (Australia)

[cleary]

Reuben. Thanks for your response and clarification. Hopefully your
request to Queensland Government Department will be fruitful.


On Sun, Jul 10, 2016, at 04:18 PM, Reuben wrote:
> 
> On 10/07/16 14:06, cleary wrote:
> > Feedback from the legal-talk list is that the reply from the Department
> > of Prime Minister and Cabinet is not sufficient and therefore we cannot
> > use PSMA datasets in OSM.
> >
> > As far as I can ascertain, the lines on the Contributors page of the
> > wiki, referring to PSMA boundaries, were added by a user named Reubot a
> > little over three months ago. However a search for this user returned a
> > result that there was no user of this name -  I'm not sure how that
> > works and someone else may understand how this could be so. This user
> > also added Brisbane City Council as a source in the Contributors page so
> > someone may wish to check if that data is actually permitted in OSM
> > either.  I'm not sure how much data was actually added to OSM from PSMA
> > by this user or anyone else.
> >
> >
> Sorry about that, I was under the impression that it was covered by the 
> data.gov.au permission. I only added Brisbane and Redlands and am now in 
> the process of undoing. I have sent an email to QLD Department of 
> Natural Resources and Mines to asking for explicit permission to use 
> their (boundary) datasets instead.
> 
> The Brisbane City Council data should be good as I got explicit
> permission:
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Attribution/data.brisbane.qld.gov.au_explicit_permission 
> 
> 
> Reuben
> 
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