[talk-au] Source material.

Warin 61sundowner at gmail.com
Tue Oct 19 09:07:15 UTC 2021


On 19/10/21 12:12 pm, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> That would be great Ian. If you find that some useful datasets aren't 
> covered under the Vicmap CC BY waiver, but are CC BY licensed then we 
> can request an updated waiver to cover them.
>
> Andrew Parker, it looks like State Parks for VIC are included in CAPAD 
> https://www.awe.gov.au/agriculture-land/land/nrs/science/capad/2020 
> <https://www.awe.gov.au/agriculture-land/land/nrs/science/capad/2020> 
> which we have permission to use, while there may be minor differences 
> since it's only from 2020, it's worth looking into.
>
It does not have 'State Forests' ... unfortunately.


> As others mentioned 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_data_catalogue#Victoria 
> <https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_data_catalogue#Victoria> 
> is pretty much the definitive guide to what open data we can use, but 
> anything CC BY licensed could be used if we receive a waiver.
>
>
> On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 at 07:49, Little Maps <mapslittle at gmail.com 
> <mailto:mapslittle at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks Thorsten, I’ll spend some time later this week to examine
>     all of the Vic gov datasets that look like they might contain a
>     version of the State Forests boundaries and I’ll post a summary of
>     what all the potentially relevant datasets do and don’t contain.
>     This will (hopefully) help to resolve questions about copyright
>     permissions and help editors find the most useful datafiles to
>     use. Cheers Ian
>
>>     On 19 Oct 2021, at 12:05 am, osm.talk-au at thorsten.engler.id.au
>>     <mailto:osm.talk-au at thorsten.engler.id.au> wrote:
>>
>>     I might be wrong, but from reading the metadata of the derived
>>     dataset, I think the base dataset basically only has parcels, but
>>     not forestry specific information attached to that, while the
>>     derived dataset uses the parcels and then adds forestry specific
>>     information to them.
>>
>

It is a pity OSM does not have access to the Vic base map 'cartography' 
as we do for NSW via DCS.

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