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Checking Australian Government sources to confirm locality

Post by AshS42
Good Evening,

What sources of information are we allowed to use to confirm which locality an area falls within?

I am not talking about importing or copying data but what sources of information are we allowed to check to see where particular localities change? I have found a data.gov.au CCBY4.0 source for all victorian locality boundaries. I also know that not all locality boundaries are marked by signs on the road side - especially on secondary and tertiary routes.

I understand that we can't violate copyright, but there has to be some level of fact checking we can do that isn't a violation.

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Re: Checking Australian Government sources to confirm locali

Post by nmeier23
This would appear to be the official source for locality names and boundary maps for Victoria: https://www.propertyandlandtitles.vic.g ... ndary-maps
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Ah misread and thought the query was specifically on CCBY4.0.

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Post by timarm59
Greetings all,
Some disclosure - I work in Local Govt in Victoria. Part of my role is to notify the State of any new road names or issues with the mapbase they supply.
Note sure whether this helps this discussion.
Here's a link to the Victorian State Govt Copyright Notice for the DELWP mapping site - https://www2.delwp.vic.gov.au/copyright
The first line gave me hope "We encourage the sharing and re-use of information provided on this website". We are probably hobbled by the CCA 4.0 problems mentioned above which I have not read or have much understanding of.
This link is broken on this site - https://maps.land.vic.gov.au/lassi/LassiUI.jsp
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Re: Checking Australian Government sources to confirm locali

Post by Vestigal
nmeier23 wrote:This would appear to be the official source for locality names and boundary maps for Victoria: https://www.propertyandlandtitles.vic.g ... ndary-maps
That site has the exact same CCA 4.0 problems as the aforementioned site Ashley provided.

If you read the link ituajr posted about Copyrights, you'd see the problem with the site you linked.
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