[OSM-talk] import of dataset for new zealand

[Andy Allan]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 9:44 AM, Robin Paulson <robin.paulson at gmail.com> wrote:
> land information new zealand is a government org that holds data on
>  roads and properties for the entirety of new zealand. they have
>  recently given permission to use their data sets in osm, with a caveat
>  that we include an attribution statement:
>
>  "Contains data sourced from Land Information New Zealand. Crown
>  Copyright reserved. Land Information New Zealand gives no warranty in
>  relation to the data, including its accuracy, reliability and
>  suitability and accepts no liability whatsoever in relation to any
>  loss, damage or other costs relating to the use of any data, any
>  compilations, derivative works or modifications of the data".
>
>  this is a huge data set, with a lot of very useful information. it
>  will immediately bring road coverage (currently very poor) for the
>  entire country up to 100%, and may include property information for
>  every land title in the country, which then opens the door for other
>  open data sets, such as zenbu.co.nz (business listings)
>
>  the key is the attribution
>
>  at present there is no method for attributing data in osm, so this is
>  a call to all:
>
>  a technical solution is sought, to display the corresponding
>  information whenever linz-sourced data is being viewed.
>
>  suggestions and comments, please

Aargh. This is so close to being extremely useful. But if that's going
to be a requirement for my cycle map to display that, and all the
sites that use the main slippy map, or those embedding the cycle map
tiles, and the garmin.img files need to display that, and trekbuddy
needs to display that, then there'll be a strong demand for a weekly
planet-no-NZ.osm.bz2, which is not exactly what we want to happen!

I hope you can find some way around this restriction they are asking for!

Cheers,
Andy