[Talk-ca] [nzopengis] Re: DOC and LINZ Data under Creative Commons Licence

[Sam Vekemans]

Hi Richard,
Perhaps you will be able to be of assistance to our New Zealand friends?

It looks like they  have recently gained permission to use government
data for OSM.

Considering you were able to work with GeoBase directly to kick start
the Canada import, and are the main contact as the OSM - Canada
representative.
 (and will be speaking to the group at SOTM in Amsterdam. ) ... You
mht be able to provide some assistance to the group.

What we did (and are doing), is on all communications, we cc:
talk-ca at openstreetmap.org message board. For each time people connect
with the 'outside' world.

Right now, for the GeoBase data, it's actively being imported at
various spots across the country, and the CanVec data import hasn't
officially started yet.

I'm happy to be of assistance to those working on the LINZ & DOC data charts,
Are you using shp2osm or shp-to-osm or another script for converting the data?

Thanks,
Sam Vekemans
Across Canada Trails
On 6/20/09, Andrew Simpson <andrew.simpson at corokia.co.nz> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 17:41:33 +1200
> Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> t2009/6/20 Andrew <andrew.simpson at corokia.co.nz>:
>> > When I last looked there wasn't much activity in this group.  I posted
>> > a message about the LINZ and DOC data released under the CC Licence
>> > (at Koordinates.com) on the OSM Legal list and got a lukewarm
>> > response.
>> >
>> i think we need to be careful when talking to orgs like linz, doc,
>> etc. this is something we discussed a year or so back - if lots of us
>> make lots of requests to them (one person asking about cadastral, one
>> about walking tracks, one about roads, etc, etc.), we were concerned
>> they would get annoyed with multiple questions. personally i think we
>> should leave it to one person, who contacts them about everything we
>> want, in one shot, to disturb them as little as possible. remember,
>> we're not paying them, and are expecting them to put in a fair amount
>> of work, both legal and technical
>>
>
> Rob - I'll reply to your email, but I try to tie together several
> threads at once.
>
> Fully agree that we must not upset these organisations.  I only
> approached them after not raising any interest on the osm legal mailing
> list (Actually they suggested that I contact LINZ!).
>
>> linz have already replied to simon that it's ok to use their d