<div dir="ltr">Surfacing an old thread here as there have been recent developments.<div><br></div><div>The "Protected areas of Queensland - boundaries" dataset from QSpatial[1] has been previously imported by <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">QldProtectedAreas[2]</span>. It's CC BY 3.0 AU licensed, but the data custodian (<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Department of Environment and Science)</span> has completed the OSMF CC BY waiver[3] clearing the data for use in OSM from a licensing perspective. The data custodian only agreed to complete the waiver for that specific dataset due to concerns about the data quality of other datasets.</div><div><br></div><div>As far as I'm aware we haven't been able to get the waiver completed by other departments who publish their data on QSpatial and we have no QSpatial blanket waiver, only this specific dataset.</div><div><br></div><div>Is anyone interested in updating OSM based on some of the new data from this dataset? A quick scan in QGIS there are some differences (mostly due to new data published on QSpatial) but mostly it's consistent.</div><div><br></div><div>To compare the two I,</div><div><br></div><div>1. Downloaded queensland.osm.pdf extract from <a href="http://download.openstreetmap.fr/extracts/oceania/australia/">http://download.openstreetmap.fr/extracts/oceania/australia/</a></div><div>2. Extracted protected areas from that file with:</div><div>osmium tags-filter --overwrite -o qld-protected-areas.osm.pbf queensland.osm.pbf nwr/boundary=protected_area,national_park,state_forest</div><div><br></div><div>Giving <a href="https://tianjara.net/data/QLD_Protected_Areas.geojson">https://tianjara.net/data/QLD_Protected_Areas.geojson</a> from QSpatial and <a href="https://tianjara.net/data/qld-protected-areas.geojson">https://tianjara.net/data/qld-protected-areas.geojson</a> from OSM which can be compared in QGIS or JOSM using the GeoJSON plugin.</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><a href="http://qldspatial.information.qld.gov.au/catalogue/custom/index.page">http://qldspatial.information.qld.gov.au/catalogue/custom/index.page</a></span></div><div>[2] <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"><a href="https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/QldProtectedAreas">https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/QldProtectedAreas</a></span></div><div>[3]<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline"> <a href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:QPWS_ProtectedAreas_CC-BY3.0_OSM_PermissionSigned.pdf">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:QPWS_ProtectedAreas_CC-BY3.0_OSM_PermissionSigned.pdf</a></span></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 26 January 2016 at 21:35, Nev Wedding <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nwastra@gmail.com" target="_blank">nwastra@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi<br>
I have been browsing the Queensland Spatial Catalogue and noticed the following<br>
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Protected areas of Queensland - boundaries Published date - 11 Jun 2015<br>
<a href="http://qldspatial.information.qld.gov.au/catalogue/custom/search.page?q=%22Protected%20areas%20of%20Queensland%20-%20boundaries%22" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://qldspatial.information.<wbr>qld.gov.au/catalogue/custom/<wbr>search.page?q=%22Protected%<wbr>20areas%20of%20Queensland%20-%<wbr>20boundaries%22</a><br>
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Nature refuges and coordinated conservation Date published -14 Sep 2012<br>
<a href="http://qldspatial.information.qld.gov.au/catalogue/custom/search.page?q=%22Nature%20refuges%20and%20coordinated%20conservation%20areas%22" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://qldspatial.information.<wbr>qld.gov.au/catalogue/custom/<wbr>search.page?q=%22Nature%<wbr>20refuges%20and%20coordinated%<wbr>20conservation%20areas%22</a><br>
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** Has this been imported and if not do we have permission to use to edit/update the OSM<br>
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Others I noticed that may be useful were <br>
Local government area boundaries <br>
<a href="http://qldspatial.information.qld.gov.au/catalogue/custom/search.page?q=%22Local%20government%20area%20boundaries%20-%20Queensland%22" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://qldspatial.information.<wbr>qld.gov.au/catalogue/custom/<wbr>search.page?q=%22Local%<wbr>20government%20area%<wbr>20boundaries%20-%20Queensland%<wbr>22</a><br>
Locality boundaries<br>
<a href="http://qldspatial.information.qld.gov.au/catalogue/custom/search.page?q=%22Locality%20boundaries%20-%20Queensland%22" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://qldspatial.information.<wbr>qld.gov.au/catalogue/custom/<wbr>search.page?q=%22Locality%<wbr>20boundaries%20-%20Queensland%<wbr>22</a><br>
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