<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Done…Here it is   <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5892156" class="">http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5892156</a><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 23 Jan 2016, at 12:43 PM, Ross <<a href="mailto:info@4x4falcon.com" class="">info@4x4falcon.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
  
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 23/01/16 12:26, Nev Wedding wrote:<br class="">
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      I have followed this process for Kooyong State Conservation Area
      which has gone well after opening the kms file and have simplified
      and added all the tags, 
      <div class="">…but on trying to upload the final boundary I get
        this ominous message<br class="">
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        <div class="">You are about to upload data from the layer
          'Kooyong.kml'.<br class="">
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          Sending data from this layer is <b class="">strongly
            discouraged</b>. If you continue,<br class="">
          it may require you subsequently have to revert your changes,
          or force other contributors to.<br class="">
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          <div class="">Are you sure you want to continue? </div>
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          <div class="">I assume the warning is to dissuade mappers from
            careless import of large uncorrected datasets.?</div>
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    Yes.<br class="">
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          <div class="">Sooo…, am I ok to continue or is there another
            reason?  ..I am on-hold here until I see a reply</div>
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          <div class="">Nev </div>
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    However you may want to upload one, provide a link to it and then
    see what others think.<br class="">
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    Cheers<br class="">
    Ross<br class="">
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                <div class="">On 22 Jan 2016, at 11:36 PM, Andrew
                  Davidson <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:u887@internode.on.net" class="">u887@internode.on.net</a>>
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                  <div class="">You can extract the geometries from the
                    database directly, you don't have to scan them. I
                    tried this on three park areas to see how much work
                    was involved. The recipe I followed was:<br class="">
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                    1. Use the query tool to find out how many objects
                    have the name that you are looking for. You do this
                    with:<br class="">
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                    <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/arcgis/rest/services/public/NSW_Administrative_Boundaries/MapServer/6/query" class="">http://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/arcgis/rest/services/public/NSW_Administrative_Boundaries/MapServer/6/query</a><br class="">
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                    with the return format set to html. Names must be in
                    upper case and you need to see what object ids are
                    returned. For example if you search for Yanununbeyan
                    with:<br class="">
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/arcgis/rest/services/public/NSW_Administrative_Boundaries/MapServer/6/query?text=YANUNUNBEYAN&geometry=&geometryType=esriGeometryEnvelope&inSR=&spatialRel=esriSpatialRelIntersects&relationParam=&objectIds=&where=&time=&returnCountOnly=false&returnIdsOnly=false&returnGeometry=true&maxAllowableOffset=&outSR=&outFields=&f=html">http://maps.six.nsw.gov.au/arcgis/rest/services/public/NSW_Administrative_Boundaries/MapServer/6/query?text=YANUNUNBEYAN&geometry=&geometryType=esriGeometryEnvelope&inSR=&spatialRel=esriSpatialRelIntersects&relationParam=&objectIds=&where=&time=&returnCountOnly=false&returnIdsOnly=false&returnGeometry=true&maxAllowableOffset=&outSR=&outFields=&f=html</a><br class="">
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                    You get three different ids (198,208,1131) because
                    there is a Yanununbeyan State Conservation Area,
                    Yanununbeyan Nature Reserve, and Yanununbeyan
                    National Park. All of which need to be tagged
                    differently. Follow the object links to find out
                    what type of area they are.<br class="">
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                    2. Having found the object id you need you get the
                    geometry by using the query tool and setting the
                    object id, setting the output spatial reference to
                    4326 (WGS84), and changing the output format to
                    JSON.<br class="">
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                    3. Save the resulting page, say output.json<br class="">
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                    4. Use ogr2ogr from GDAL to convert the output into
                    something JOSM can read:<br class="">
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                    ogr2ogr -f "KML" output.json output.kml<br class="">
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                    5. If you have the opendata plugin installed you can
                    open output.kml in JOSM.<br class="">
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                    6. Use the simplify way option in JOSM as there are
                    far too many points in the resulting kml. I
                    personally thought that the default 3m looks OK.<br class="">
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                    7. Tag the ways with an appropriate source:geometry
                    and add a note to the effect that the way has been
                    simplified using a max error criterion set to
                    whatever you used.<br class="">
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                    8. Now comes the difficult and time consuming bit.
                    You have to cut up and conflate the new boundaries
                    with the existing data as you merge each new way
                    from the layer you opened the kml in to the layer
                    the osm data is in. This is the step where you could
                    really make a mess. <br class="">
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                    I found while doing the few test cases that I had
                    to:<br class="">
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                    - Make sure that common boundaries use only one way
                    (which means that the more parks, state forests,
                    admin areas, etc that share ways the more time
                    consuming it gets)<br class="">
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                    - Make judgement calls about if you should use the
                    new boundary or keep the existing way where the
                    boundary is something physical on the ground like a
                    river bank or coastline. This is why I tagged the
                    new ways with source:geometry so other mappers can
                    see where they came from.<br class="">
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                    - If there are already ways in place, using the
                    replace geometry function of the utils2 plugin to
                    try and preserve history.<br class="">
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                    The cases I tried as a test were:<br class="">
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                    South East Forest National Park:<br class="">
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                    Murramarang National Park:<br class="">
                    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5858067">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5858067</a><br class="">
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                    Clyde River National Park:<br class="">
                    <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5857616">https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/5857616</a><br class="">
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                    The South East Forest case was a multi-hour mapping
                    marathon as the park has a lot of separate sections
                    and shares many boundaries with neighbouring state
                    forests and parks. The other two were much simpler
                    but Murramarang need more time than Clyde River as
                    it has more sections and shares a lot of common ways
                    with the coast and various rivers.<br class="">
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                    As to the import question it seems to me that there
                    is a tacit agreement that tracing the boundaries one
                    at a time is acceptable (not sure what the rest of
                    OSM would think about this). Given that the biggest
                    problem with an import would be conflating the data
                    with the existing, provided that we're carefully
                    hand-crafting each park I think we're OK. Does
                    anyone have a differing opinion?<br class="">
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                    On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 13:44:12 +1000<br class="">
                    Nev Wedding <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:nwastra@gmail.com"><nwastra@gmail.com></a> wrote:<br class="">
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                    <blockquote type="cite" class="">Should the JOSM
                      Scanaerial plugin be able to scan the LPI NSW<br class="">
                      Administrative Boundaries NPWS Reserve WMS layer
                      and others. I would<br class="">
                      like to zoom in to a section and use the plugin as
                      an initial pass<br class="">
                      instead of manually mouse clicking around the long
                      and winding<br class="">
                      boundary and then refine the result before tagging
                      and uploading.<br class="">
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/Scanaerial">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/Scanaerial</a><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre">
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                      I am using a mac OS X and there are no
                      instructions for that install<br class="">
                      so I may not have it set up correctly yet, so
                      first up before<br class="">
                      proceeding further, I would like to know if it
                      will help anyway. <br class="">
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                      I am unfamiliar with tracing shapes other than
                      tediously wandering<br class="">
                      around the boundaries one click at a time.<br class="">
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                      I played around with Gimp and Inkscape but found
                      that to be quite a<br class="">
                      task too and wasn’t sure if I could use the output
                      in Josm in anyway.<br class="">
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                      How do you manage such tasks? Are their special
                      mouse tools available?<br class="">
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                      Is what I am trying to do essentially considered
                      to be part of an<br class="">
                      import and/or the current LPI layers unsuitable
                      for the tracing<br class="">
                      process.<br class="">
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                      Some links to where to find more info on this
                      topic would be<br class="">
                      appreciated.
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