<br>Yes, the same sort of thought occurred to me - I have added natural=wood to parts of sydney - then hit really large bit<br>and though 'hmm' and put it in the two hard basket. I had previously come across 'OSDM' data for australia that had
<br>some road, some rail, bodies of water etc - it may have national parks as well. When I discussed this on osm-talk it<br>was pointed out that at least the road network on this database is not accurate enough for routing, but that it may be
<br>ok for a 'first pass' of other things. The data was in .shp files and didn't seem that hard to import<br><br>I'll hunt up the location of the data when I am back home if there is some interest.<br><br>
cheers<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">
On 8/13/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Brent Easton</b> <<a href="mailto:b.easton@exemail.com.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">b.easton@exemail.com.au</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>Without going overboard, or creating anything too controlling, it would be nice to slowly add standards to the tagging page for other types of data.<br><br>The area I live in is nearly all farmland with the occasional area of wooded land. I've marked these out as areas with natural=wood and they look really nice on the map, nice color and texture. But I am starting think why? For what purpose? If I scan left another 10 k's, I hit the Great Dividing Range and it is virtually all forest.
<br><br>What are we planning to do about that? Are we going to mark out huge areas of forest accross the ranges with 'natural=wood', 'layer=-4'? If not, then what is the point of marking out small 'easy' sections of woods?
<br><br>What is our actual reason for marking the wooded areas?<br>What are the alternatives?<br><br>Most maps of the scale we are working on map functional areas rather than vegetation type, so is what we really want marked on the map in green, National Park, Nature Reserve and State Forests?
<br><br>It ...may... be possible to get hold of this data and get permission to add it to OSM. We could do this in bulk.<br><br>Thoughts?<br><br>Cheers,<br>Brent.<br><br>____________________________________________________________
<br>Brent Easton<br>Analyst/Programmer<br>University of Western Sydney<br>Email: <a href="mailto:b.easton@uws.edu.au" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">b.easton@uws.edu.au</a><br><br>
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