[Aust-NZ] Fwd: LINZ Data upload for OpenStreetMap will go dark on April 1

[John Smith]

On 24 January 2011 10:11, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> after April 1st all of our hard work would then be deleted from the main
> database.

Might be deleted from OSM-F's database, but OSM-F have promised to
release a dump prior to removing data, how well they'll keep this
promise is another matter.

To reduce the risk of data simply vanishing, some have been working on
alternative databases, eg http://www.fosm.org/