Australian Data Sources/Queensland/NRMMRRD

Imagery Vintage

The NRMMRRD Latest State Program Public Imagery has been added to the Editor Layer Index and to JOSM's Maps index. This contains imagery the department collects through the Spatial Imagery Services Program (SISP) but which is greater than 3 years old, the recent imagery is kept under commercial terms and the older imagery is made available under CC BY 4.0 through this service.

It's possible to determine the vintage of this imagery through the associated ArcGIS REST Services at https://spatial-img.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/services/Basemaps/LatestStateProgram_AllUsers/ImageServer/.

To download the footprints as GeoJSON with pyesridump you can use

esri2geojson --jsonlines --timeout 360 'https://spatial-img.information.qld.gov.au/arcgis/rest/services/Basemaps/LatestStateProgram_AllUsers/ImageServer/' LatestStateProgram_AllUsers.geojson

From there you'll want to sort the features by the zindex attribute to get the same layering as the mosaic service, and then inspect the year attribute for the imagery vintage.

QLD NRMMRRD CC BY 4.0 Imagery Access

On 7th November 2025, we (Andrew Harvey, Graeme Fitzpatrick) received additional correspondence on our existing support ticket "CSREF-22636 Request to use imagery CC BY data in OpenStreetMap" at the The Queensland Spatial Help Centre, under the Department of Natural Resources and Mines, Manufacturing and Regional and Rural Development (Queensland).

This additional correspondence was in response to the OSMF's CC BY waiver they had just provided for use of their CC BY 4.0 datasets in OSM.

Reference: CSREF-22636 Response: Hello Andrew,

We now have further advice from the Imagery team, to see if there are any other options for you including non-current.

After a review, we have confirmed that all relevant public imagery services contain datasets owned by other organisations, including private companies, local government, and federal government agencies. We do not have the authority to waive CC BY (or BY-NC / BY-SA) licensing terms for these datasets.

We agree that attribution by OpenStreetMap and its users through https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors is sufficient to provide attribution in a “reasonable manner” in accordance with Section 3(a)(1) of the CC BY 4.0 license for our imagery datasets. We also note that CC BY licensing does not limit the license type of vector features/datasets extracted or derived from imagery data.

OpenStreetMap and its users are welcome to leverage the public imagery services licensed under CC BY 4.0 as-is to extract/derive vector features stored in OSM and licensed under ODbL.

It should also be noted that we are not in a position to publish any new services that only contain data where NRMMRRD owns the IP.

So, I’ll close this request. I’m sorry we don’t have better news for you.

Regards,

Cecilia Tram

Manager

After raising this response with the Licensing Working Group, it was discussed during their 11th November 2025 meeting and we were advised that they "agree that it is fine to trace/extract from CC-BY-4.0 imagery for inclusion in OSM.".