Hi,<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Li Xia <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lisxia1982@gmail.com" target="_blank">lisxia1982@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote">
<SNIP><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1. Can anyone suggest tags other than the following?</div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">name:<different></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
place:locality</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">source: <span style="line-height:16px;text-align:left">© Commonwealth of Australia (</span>GeoScience Australia) 2006. </div>
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">
2. Using JOSM at the moment and uploads take a while, is there a better way of bulk uploading data? </div></blockquote><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"></SNIP></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div>Some questions for you: </div><div>1) Can you post a link to the source data and licence? </div>
<div>2) that copyright tag looks ominous, are you sure it's licenced appropriately for import to OSM? </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>a) The site <a href="http://ga.gov.au">http://ga.gov.au</a> has a footer that says:</div>
<div>"Unless otherwise noted, all Geoscience Australia material on this website is licensed </div><div>under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence."</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>I believe this may not compatible with OSM...</div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>b) ...Unless you got the data from <a href="http://data.gov.au/">http://data.gov.au/</a> for which</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>OSM has obtained rights to import</div>
<div>3) Tagging - why only place: locality, and not place:city/hamlet/town mappings? </div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>a) GA name data appears to also other place types such as Mountains/hills that could </div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>be useful see <a href="http://www.ga.gov.au/place-name/">http://www.ga.gov.au/place-name/</a> </div><div>4) Using String compare to deduplicate names is probably insufficient - there should be </div>
<div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>a manual check as well due to potential local-use/mis-spellings in OSM data vs approved</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>names - can you share your de-duplication code?</div>
<div>5) Have you read<span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> </span><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:15px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines</a> ?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Chris</div></div></div>