<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>For districts where its a blank map I feel there would be value in getting the gazetted road data. At least that way for the few hearty souls out there collecting data it becomes an exercise of refinement, instead of 'oh boy where to start'. I definitely agree external data sources should be reviewed some how before being imported such that anything currently in place remains as the authoritative instance.<br><br>I approached the Sunshine Coast Council (Qld) some months ago about accessing their data and my request is still under review. Currently they provide mapping data without charge to commercial vendors (eg UBD).<br><br>Jeff.<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new
york,times,serif; font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Ross Scanlon <info@4x4falcon.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> talk-au@openstreetmap.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Monday, 15 June, 2009 2:37:15 PM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [talk-au] Petition to MP<br></font><br>And the problem with importing things like roads from government databases is that they are the gazetted road position not the actual on ground road position. That's why google maps etc are so often incorrect.<br><br>Thats why some of the ABS data does not line up with the actual plotted road.<br><br>Here's an example<br><br><a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-20.30721&lon=148.54535&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF"
target="_blank">http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-20.30721&lon=148.54535&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF</a><br><br>The roads are in their current place but when they were gazetted the ABS boundary is there. You can still see where the Bruce Highway used to be if you go to this intersection.<br><br>Cheers<br>Ross<br> <br><br>On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:08:33 +1000<br><a ymailto="mailto:b.schulz.10@scu.edu.au" href="mailto:b.schulz.10@scu.edu.au">b.schulz.10@scu.edu.au</a> wrote:<br><br>> This is not to say that administrative borders aren't useful, but if I was in a foreign country I'm much more interested in navigation, where to eat, where the closest toilet is etc than what suburb I'm in or exactly where the border of a national park is.<br>> <br>> So anyway, what I'm trying to get to is a consensus on what would be a more efficient use of our time: marketing to the masses or petitioning for government databases.<br>>
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