LINZ
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'The LINZ import has been put on hold (2008-04) until the new license issue is resolved. This may be two months or more.'
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overview
LINZ (Land Information New Zealand) is a publicly funded organisation, which is responsible for creating and holding information concerning land ownership. They have data for all of New Zealand's roads, released under a license which may be compatible with that of OSM.
This page is dedicated to facilitating the potential use of this data in OSM.
completed
- Lawyers at LINZ have decided that their data can be used in the OSM database, with attribution in the form of the following statement (as of 2008-03-18). This information has been submitted to the legal-talk list, requesting a suitable technical solution for displaying the note where applicable.
" 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".
- a method has been devised for converting the data into a format that can be imported into osm. it is detailed ....?
to do
devise a method for displaying attribution, whenever linz data is viewed ..... ....
possible attribution methods
- add the info to the wiki, on the Attribution page
- add a short line to the main map on the front page, something like "Crown Copyright", which displays whenever LINZ-sourced data is showing on screen, and hyperlinks to a page in the wiki with the full contents of the attribution text
- add a permanently-viewable line on the front page to cover all attributions, e.g. "Copyright multiple entities, see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Attribution for details"
- include a line on the attributions page, stating that each element sourced from linz has it's attribution set to "linz", data which can be viewed by analysis of the planet file/through the api/with one of the editors. this data could be set to read-only, i.e. it will be persistent in the data set OSM use, unless the item is completely deleted
- set the username to "New Zealand crown Copyright". at high zoom levels, the username of the last editor displays next to every object
- Put the characters as a set of virtual roads on any empty area (preferably owned by linz ;-), and position map to this point and zoomfactor for very first access to data? It's a pity there's no redirect, as in HTML.
- the idea of using cookies to determine if it's first visit or not, and re-directing to the attribution page/showing a translucent overlay (for a few seconds, before re-directing back to the map) if it is, is an idea that intrigues me
- putting an 'attribution' tag on data, in a way that it can only be set (not removed/changed). Osmarener could detect these and mark the map appropriately, could even add the attribution as text on the other side of the way to the copyright holder's name when at maximum zoom. --Mungewell 23:29, 18 March 2008 (UTC)
- permission to edit this tag could be given selectively - if another, overlapping data set were then imported, the importer could merge a new data set with the existing data, updating the 'attribution' tag to also represent the origin of the new data set
summary of attribution methods - what osm will and will not do
osm will carry out
- creating a wiki page with details of contributors, and information on how to view the contributor of a specific piece of data (planet.osm, osmxapi, potlatch, etc.)
- adding a permanent link from the main map to the attributions page
- creating an 'attribution' tag, which can be edited by any member of the community. this tag will be applied only to items requiring attribution
- ??? creating an 'attribution' tag, which can only be edited by select members of the community. this tag will be applied only to items requiring attribution ???
osm will not carry out
- adding attribution text to maps, beside each item requiring attribution
- specific attribution labels which appear on-screen whenever an item requiring attribution is being shown (such as used by google maps)
- re-directions to attribution text, when data requiring attribution is viewed for the first time
