[OSM-talk] import of dataset for new zealand

Simon Hewison simon at zymurgy.org
Tue Mar 18 20:43:12 GMT 2008


Robin Paulson wrote:
> "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.

Upload it all from a username dedicated to nothing but uploading 
linz-sourced data.
source="linz http://some.server.somewhere/linz-attribution.html"

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Simon Hewison




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