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

[Andrew Davidson]

 From the opening paragraph:

"Importing (also known as Bulk Importing) is the process of uploading 
external data to OSM"

the keyword is uploading. So as you open a shape file, kml, geojson, or 
whatnot in your favourite editor/script it then becomes an import.

On 11/07/16 16:49, cleary wrote:
>
> Could I have clarification please? I had previously read the Import
> Guidelines as referring to large scale imports of whole datasets (which
> could have wide ramifications if there were problems) but not to items
> being added individually and incrementally as occurred with LPI NSW
> data.  Do the import guidelines apply to all data from other sources
> even when only individual items are being added to OSM at any one time?
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 11, 2016, at 03:22 PM, Andrew Davidson wrote:
>> 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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