[OSM-talk] import of dataset for new zealand

[Tom Chance]

Hello,

On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 11:03:48 +0000, "Andy Allan" <gravitystorm at gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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".
> 
> 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!

What if we upload all of that data under a particular username? In that
sense they are getting attribution as much as any other contributor to OSM.
I wonder if they would be happy with their notice going on the OSM wiki,
with a note pointing to that under their user account and any OSM wiki
pages about NZ?

Tata,
Tom