Bushwalk Australia

I don't think that this has been mentioned before on the forum.

The NSW Lands Dept has released certain mapping data as Open Data under the Creative Commons Attribution By Licence.
http://www.lpi.nsw.gov.au/mapping_and_i ... b_services

While this does include the NSW Topographic maps, it is the rasterised version. So if you want data off any specific layer (eg contour) you would have to manually derive it. Which you would be permitted to do since the CC BY 3.0 AU licence does permit you to
"Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially."

Also available is the NSW Imagery (aerial photos) data

See http://www.lpi.nsw.gov.au/mapping_and_i ... b_services for more info, and for other Open Data Web Services.

DRNM in QLD are doing it now too, although a number of the interfaces seem buggy. WMS works:

tom_brennan wrote:I don't think that this has been mentioned before on the forum.
While this does include the NSW Topographic maps, it is the rasterised version. So if you want data off any specific layer (eg contour) you would have to manually derive it. Which you would be permitted to do since the CC BY 3.0 AU licence does permit you to
"Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially."
See http://www.lpi.nsw.gov.au/mapping_and_i ... b_services for more info, and for other Open Data Web Services.

Yes, almost everything (coming from NSW govt.) is CC BY 3.0 AU license which is nice!.

The highest zoom (layer 16) is around 17GB in 6.7mil jpg images. Vector data can be download from the same source (little bit of programming is need* or maybe QGIS with some plugin) thru JSON ArcGIS api: http://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/arcgis/rest/ ... ver?f=json

* already done: https://github.com/mholling/nswtopo/

Unfortunately the vector data is not released as Open Data