[Aust-NZ] NZ Geo Placenames

[Alister Hood]

Hi,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: aust-nz-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:aust-nz-
> bounces at lists.osgeo.org] On Behalf Of Peter
> Sent: Friday, 8 April 2011 5:16 p.m.
> To: OSGeo NZ/AU
> Subject: Re: [Aust-NZ] NZ Geo Placenames
> 
> Francis Markham wrote:
> > Is "linz geonames" the same as the NZ Gazetteer?  They have data
> > available at:
> > http://www.linz.govt.nz/placenames/find-names/nz-gazetteer-official-
> names/index.aspx
> >
> > Cheers,
> 
> 
> I havent compared them line by line, but having used both for various
> applications i understand them to be related, and derived from the
same
> dataset. Note that they are v.poor. Especially if you try to do things
> like compute which tla polygon thames or coromandel are in. Answer
> none, they are in the sea.
> 
> FTR, no one told me till now that the NZ fire service maintains a
> supposedly accurate placenames layer as part  of their extensive
> emergency services suburbs/localitys dataset. From looking around i
> found out that it is supplied by terralink for free but under a
> restrictive license. Having dealt with TLA data on this sort of basis
i
> imagine that involves saying what you want it for, and signing a
> declaration.
> 
> I understand this effectively precludes reuse/derived works of just
> about any kind from what ive heard.
> 
> Also FTR i have made a start on this task and the metadata is below.
If
> anyone wants to preview the dataset to date let me know, im always
open
> to feedback. Otherwise i will be releasing it when it is 1.0.
> 
> Peter
> 
> ps. does anyone know if there is any satelitle data that im allowed to
> load as a wms layer in Qgis?

I think the data that Worldwind uses should be available somewhere...
not sure what else.
There isn't a WMS for the LINZ aerial photos up on Koordinates or
somewhere by any chance?

> I discovered the google layer plugin but its tedious to use 

The google layer plugin is the one which just downloads one image for
the current screen, isn't it?
There's also the openlayers plugin, which I think is the one that
updates as you pan and zoom.

> (and i imagine illegal).

Yes, I'm not certain of the legalities, but I looked at the licensing
and concluded that even with Google Earth Professional the license
doesn't allow us to use it for anything we really want to use it for
here :(

The openlayers plugin is also set up for Bing and Yahoo maps - I found
it difficult to discover what their licenses allow, but IIRC some people
think they allow e.g. tracing, and other people have the opposite
interpretation.


Regards,
Alister