<div dir="ltr">Another good option to explore would be just publishing the data in an openly licensed way, on something like <a href="http://data.gov.au">data.gov.au</a> if its not already.<div><br></div><div>That can let interested members of the community to improve the map somewhat manually, but with the added benefit of a lot of experienced mappers helping. It's slower, but probably results in a better quality dataset in the long run.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>With a full import, depending on the size of the dataset and complexity; it can be useful to have a discussion forum or 'bug tracker' as well - sometimes something like github is used for this purpose. That can help identify minor quirks in the source data; etc.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 11:20 AM, BYRNE, PATRICIA <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:PATRICIA.BYRNE@transport.nsw.gov.au" target="_blank">PATRICIA.BYRNE@transport.nsw.gov.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">To Whom It May Concern,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">I work for a rail operator in NSW Australia and we are currently exploring the idea of importing some of our corporate rail, signal and track speed GIS data to open rail map that would cover the greater Sydney
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">At this exploratory stage, I was wondering if you could provide us with details about the steps required to import this data and sample data schema so we can match our data to this.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Any help would be greatly appreciated.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Kind regards,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Patricia<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Patricia Byrne<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">Geospatial Officer <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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