[Qgis-developer] Australian Grid Datums (Ticket 3099)

[Marco Hugentobler]

Hi Ramon

Isn't this something that should be done by the proj.4 project? Or by 
distributions such as osgeo4w?

Regards,
Marco

Am Donnerstag, 24. März 2011, um 00.26:13 schrieb Ramon Andinach:
> Hello,
> 
> Is it possible to get the following files included in the projections
> folder (/usr/share/proj or equivalent).
> http://www.icsm.gov.au/icsm/gda/gdatm/national66.zip
> http://www.icsm.gov.au/icsm/gda/gdatm/national84.zip
> 
> To work properly they need to be unzipped and renamed to agd66.gsb and
> agd84.gsb respectively.
> 
> They are licenced under the CC by A (Australia), as confirmed below,
> requiring only attribution to the ICSM.
> 
> This should then close ticket 3099 [1,2,3] and result in a bundle of happy
> Australians that would then roam across the country extolling how
> wonderful QGIS is :)
> 
> If they're too big to go in the distro, let me know and I'll rig some
> instructions into the wiki.
> 
> -ramon.
> [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/qgis/ticket/3099
> [2] Something roughly like this has been added to the ticket
> [3] If it ends up that we're having trouble getting resulting QGIS
> generated AGD shape files recognised in other GIS packages (to Brett and
> myself the .prj files look a little weird, and Brett is currently checking
> this out) then we should use a new ticket for that.
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> > From: <icsm at ga.gov.au>
> > Date: 24 March 2011 06:28:31
> > To: <custard at westnet.com.au>
> > Subject: RE: Copyright on AGD84 and AGD66 transformation grids
> > [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
> > 
> > Dear Ramon,
> > 
> > Yes you're correct that the data is available under the Creative Commons
> > licence.  If you use, or refer to it, in any publication, the only
> > requirement is to attribute ICSM as the creator of the data, as outlined
> > on the Creative Commons website
> > http://creativecommons.org.au/learn-more/licences
> > 
> > If you require further clarification, please do not hesitate to contact
> > me again.
> > 
> > Kind regards,
> > 
> > Lesley
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: custard [mailto:custard at westnet.com.au]
> > Sent: Wednesday, 23 March 2011 16:31
> > To: ICSM
> > Subject: Copyright on AGD84 and AGD66 transformation grids
> > 
> > Dear Lesley Waterhouse,
> > 
> > I am writing to as if I can confirm the copyright status for the two AGD
> > transformation grids found here:
> > http://www.icsm.gov.au/icsm/gda/gdatm/national66.zip
> > http://www.icsm.gov.au/icsm/gda/gdatm/national84.zip
> > 
> > and linked from the GDA Techincal Manaul's webpage:
> > http://www.icsm.gov.au/icsm/gda/gdatm/index.html
> > 
> > To my understanding they are covered by the Creative Commans by
> > Attribution Licence for Australia (v3.0). Is this correct?
> > 
> > If not, what copyright licencing applies to it?
> > 
> > Yours sincerely,
> > Ramon Andinach
> 
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