[Aust-NZ] Geoscience Australia goes CC-BY [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

[Scott Penrose]

----- "Gavin Treadgold" <gt at kestrel.co.nz> wrote:
> CC does not provide any guidance on best practice for how the
> attribution should occur, it just says that it must be attributed.
> That is fine for creative works, but is a lot harder to manage when
> you have factual data such as roads, that anyone, including someone
> like myself can easily edit and correct errors in the originally
> released government data. Especially if you have to manage the
> provence down to the node and connecting line level that geospatial
> types sometimes expect.

I agree that is difficult. But how is it any more different to me going into Wikipedia and fixing a single word spelling mistake. The nodes are no harder/easier to manage than a word in a document.

The problem is not different to most creative works. Yes a photo is a single thing (generally) but words, software, and roads - all have the same issue.

When I manage software, where do I manage who changed what.

Of course the answer, which is also covered in OSM, is by logs - you can see exactly who edited what at what time, just like you can with most source code repositories, or most wikis.

Lets say - yes this problem is hard - but lets not try and stand out and say we are different. Because otherwise we are making more work for ourselves and causing great confusion to our users.

The issues are hard, as stated by Gavin & Brent, but I think what is important is the marketing. By using CC we have people, who don't understand these issues, hearing a name they may already know.

Scott
-- 
http://scott.dd.com.au/
scottp at dd.com.au