[talk-au] Govhack AU & dataset licensing - a good time to reach out

[Daniel O'Connor]

Hey all,
https://govhack.org/welcome/ is coming up; which means a lot more attention
from open-data folks within government on their datasets.

Over the next few weeks is a good time to politely reach out and ask about
ODBL compatible licensing/explicit permission on any datasets that you've
been meaning follow up on; be it federal, state or local government.

What's good about this is you don't need to do a whole import process; but
you've unblocked others from doing so at a later point; or opening up
manual editing from that data source.

Here's the current list of explicit permissions on datasets:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#Australia


For your local councils, they might be interested in publishing data
aligned to OpenCouncilData (http://standards.opencouncildata.org/).

For others; showing how the data is useful in OSM is a great step.

Some examples off the top of my head:
LPI NSW basemap/imagery; and data.sa.gov.au road name data has been a big
improvement. Leads to some tourism (a lot of maps.me users are clearly
travellers); route planning & geocoding (mapbox, Adelaide metro) outcomes.

Local council datasets - Augmented reality games (parks, playgrounds and
waterbodies datasets vs pokemon go). BBQs, toilets, drinking water, dog
parks and more have been quite useful when out and about in my experience
as well via maps.me.

Vicroads publishing photos to mapillary has also given us a lot of street
signs and raw detail to get business details from.

Cycle paths and trails - Strava route planning (amongst many other services)
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