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  • From: elliott bledsoe <elliott AT creativecommons.org.au>
  • To: cc-au AT lists.ibiblio.org, cc-nz AT lists.ibiblio.org, cc-community AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Cc-nz] creative commons research helped during the #qldfloods crisis
  • Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:33:42 +1000

although the ccAustralia office may have been impacted by the recent flooding in Brisbane, some good news has come out of the crisis; geospatial data, specifically digital elevation models or DEMs, were imperative to the creation of accurate flood models and for overcoming many operational challenges.  geoscience australia‘s DEM web portal consolidates geospatial data from dozens of different agencies. more importantly, the data is released under a creative commons attribution licence.

read more at http://creativecommons.org.au/weblog/entry/2501.



_elliott

elliott bledsoe
project officer, ccAustralia &
research assistant, CCi



        (+61 7) 3138 9467        elliott AT creativecommons.org.au
        0405059367                 http://creativecommons.org.au

              

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  • [Cc-nz] creative commons research helped during the #qldfloods crisis, elliott bledsoe, 02/17/2011

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