You can’t use those Australian maps for Openstreetmap, unless the government has subsequently released them as public domain.
But In the USA and Canada all official topo maps are public domain (I linked the licenses from the proposal page). USGS also has maps of the Arctic and Antarctic. In Indonesia I am using Opentopomap, which is based on public domain SRTM data, and there are a few other options in JOSM that might be available in your area. Australian mountains are all basically hills, right? :-) Joking. Good excuse to climb some that are missing elevation tags in OSM, if there are no good sources for elevation there. On Fri, Sep 28, 2018 at 3:06 PM Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefi...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 at 15:02, Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenb...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> and added a description of how the key saddle of a peak can be found by >> looking at a topo map >> with contours. >> >> I also added additional warnings against copying this data from >> wikipedia and other sources which are incompatible with the OSM >> license. I suspect that many of wikipedia and wikidata prominence >> values were inappropriately copied from websites like peakbagger.com, >> hence the need for a clean data source in Openstreetmap. >> > > Not wanting to be a pain here Joseph :-), but do we have (or need?) the OK > to use said topo maps? > > I know the ex-Army topo maps that I use (for navigation, not mapping!) are > all copyright Australian Dept of Natural Resources (circa 1967!) > > Thanks > > Graeme > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > Tagging@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging >
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