A Local-State Government Spatial Data Sharing Partnership

Appendix4 – Open Ended Questionnaire Responses
Case Summaries – Part 2 Comments on Information Policy
Case# P2 comments
4 Council has a privacy policy that does restrict access to some personal details and those
spatial categories that are for BCC's own planning purposes.
Information is made available that constitutes a value proposition for external customers.
External customers are after a tailored service that suits their limited knowledge of the data
9 There are specific data sets which are considered private data and therefore judgement is
made on each request as to what can be provided.
10 Ownership information is not displayed to external users
11 By providing information in easily acceptable formats with good metadata the risk is
significantly reduced
13 We provide general services information
- with disclaimers.
Normally don't provide any ownership details if data is handed out
16 withy the new licensing agreement signed by Council and NR&M for the DCDB and
Addressing information, most previous constraints have been removed.
20 Fees are aimed at recovering costs to some extent for expensive obtained datasets that
have been included as a Council budget item. These datasets include the like of orthophotos
and contour data.
24 Legal liability, copyright and privacy issues are covered by the institutional arrangements
and data agreements that Council has employed or entered into with the State Govt etc.
29 Funding limits the accuracy therefore the access
30 Councils IT strategic Plan is limiting this organisation in providing external access to our
spatial data, eg, there is resistance to having a public access web application.
31 Some spatial data is restricted, but mainly due to reliability. Most problems relate to Attribute
data (names etc). Although no formal legislation precludes release of this info Council feels it
has a moral obligation not to divulge certain info.
32 Information policy relating to spatial data not formalised. (or at least not well communicated!)
38 Q2f: When external clients are doing work for Council the data is provided free of charge.
Q2g: Yes, because we are required to pay them for data.
44 While access and copyright issues provide some restrictions there remains ample room for
transactions outside these restricted areas.
46 Neither agree or strongly disagree answers - The use of spatial data is not part of the
information policy and TCC doesn't use the State DCDB nor do we use the States
information in product generation.
56 All employees are subject to an agreement that covers the use of IT infrastructure and data.
This includes the GIS.
59 Council is currently working on an information policy.
Service Level Agreement states that data supplied to a third party cannot be used for
commercial gain.
60 Council has no formal information policy.
64 Generally data is not supplied to customers externally because we do not have an Intranet
enabled GIS. Plans are in place for this to occur.
70 Technology and budget issues are probably the limiting factors for providing GIS externally
74 Q 2b groups all external users as one. We treat developers and consultants very differently.
If a consultant is working on a project for us then they are given access to the data they
need to complete the work for us. Developers, real estate agents and others with a
commercial interest are treated very differently. We charge them for data that is ours and if
they need State gov't data then they must get it from the State gov't not from us.
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