[talk-au] NSW GNB licensing

[cleary]

That's good to get the copyright issue fixed.

However, as I noted in a previous post, I have reservations about GNB
data. Co-ordinates are often incorrect, sometimes by kilometres (even
showing a couple of NSW locations as being across state border in
Victoria) whereas the NSW LPI Map seems to show locations accurately.

Also some (possibly many) GNB names and places are historic- if added to
OSM, I think they should have tags such as "abandoned" added. In some
cases there are not even ruins that can be identified. While continued
use of the name for an unpopulated area can be labelled as
"place=locality" in OSM, some GNB place names are not in use and not
known to local residents, so I question whether they should be mapped.

So I welcome the ability to use the data as a reference but caution
about adding features to the map that have not been surveyed or
otherwise verified.




On Sat, Apr 29, 2017, at 06:46 PM, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> Historically Geographical Name Register of NSW data[1] has been used
> (and is still present) in OSM [2][3].
> 
> Based on the latest advice from the OSMF regarding CC BY 4.0[4] content
> and OSM, the GNB of NSW has completed the waiver form uploaded to
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:NSW_GNB_170427_OpenStreetMap.pdf.
> This should clear up any open licensing issues.
> 
> As such I've added the attribution requested from
> http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/copyright in the OSM wiki at
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#Geographical_Name_Register_.28GNR.29_of_NSW
> 
> [1] http://www.gnb.nsw.gov.au/place_naming/placename_search
> [2]
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2007-July/thread.html#385
> [3]
> https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/2016-April/thread.html#10905
> [4] https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2017/03/17/use-of-cc-by-data/
> 
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