User talk:TooncesB

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-- Wikimedia Commons Welcome (talk) 22:55, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Thank you!

Hi TooncesB, thanks for fixing the Ross Dependency in this map! That was definitely the most glaring problem. However I am concerned that a few outlying islands are still missing from the map. Would you be able to add the Bounty Islands and the missing Kermadec Islands, please? --Avenue (talk) 09:04, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Hi Avenue.

I'm looking into possible solutions. There isn't a lot of precedent I can find, for reuse of LINZ map data, on this Wiki.

I generally work with USGS data, as I'm deeply familiar with their works and policies. Anvers and Ross are both covered by USGS works, and the Ross Dependency is simply a fact, it's not really map data.
 

The large graphic inset for the Bounty Islands is mostly done (I worked on this, yesterday) and seems to be sourced by a different license from the main LINZ map database (I sourced the graphic in the article you linked).
 

The corresponding map data appears, somewhat, to be present in NED data, which is already properly attributed.

NED didn't seem to have the Kermadecs, but I haven't looked in the right places to verify my understanding of what they do, and do not, have on the Kermadec group --TooncesB (talk) 14:24, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

Yes, LINZ have loosened up a lot, but their data is still not free (if by that we mean freely modifiable) as far as I can see. There is one mention on their copyright page of images "derived" from LINZ material, but it isn't clear about what's allowed in that respect.

Raoul Island is in NED's 10m-coastline file, and the Bounty Is are in their minor islands file, but I can't see the other Kermadecs there. Even adding them as points would be better than omitting them completely.

It's difficult to find other free sources at present, with the US government shutdown shuttering many of their websites. --Avenue (talk) 20:39, 3 October 2013 (UTC)

I've tracked down some freely licensed LINZ data on the Kermadecs here (licensed as CC-BY-NZ-3.0). There's a lot more free data on that site too; I guess I was just looking in the wrong places before. --Avenue (talk) 11:45, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

The render will look a lot better than just dots with those LINZ polygons you linked.

Well done. TooncesB (talk) 20:56, 28 October 2013 (UTC)