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

[Andrew Davidson]

Just a gentle reminder that there is a list of steps that you have to go 
through before you start importing data into OSM*:

https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines

*Yeap I realise I'm being a terrible hypocrite here. I think we managed 
to achieve two out of the five steps required with the NSW LPI import. 
Turns out that not planning an import does result in a not insignificant 
level of PITA. Which is why I was hoping to avoid this in the future.

On 10/7/16 16:18, 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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