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    <p>OK everyone I am currently editing the LGA shapefiles for QLD so
      no one should attempt as to not create conflicts (although I'm not
      currently working on the suburbs file).</p>
    <p>The PSMA data isn't good IMO. And requires a lot of fixing to be
      imported, lots of problems with overlapping ways.</p>
    <p>But the biggest problem is that the names are all caps! Does
      anyone know a way to automatically convert all of these properly
      so that "BRISBANE" is "Brisbane"? <br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/10/18 12:07 pm, Joel H. wrote:<br>
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      <p>Hi cleary (and everyone),</p>
      <p>This is excellent news, I wasn't aware of this. I think this is
        great and would be interested in importing Queensland's</p>
      <p>My first though is to add a fixme notice (in similar fashion to
        the NSW import), that tells us to reconsider the place label
        node already in OSM, and to integrate it with the boundary data.</p>
      <p>I'm going to check the shapefiles, but in the meantime, what
        other considerations need to be made?</p>
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      <p>--Joel<br>
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      <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/10/18 11:42 am, cleary wrote:<br>
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        <div style="font-family:Arial;">A month ago, we celebrated the
          news that OSM now has approval to use the PSMA Administrative
          Boundaries and there was some discussion, including the need
          for a proper import process.  I am willing to start adding
          some boundaries in areas with which I am familiar/interested
          but I am waiting for the proper import process to be
          determined. I am not aware if anything has been done in regard
          to a plan to import this data. If so, please guide me. If not,
          I propose the following:<br>
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        <div style="font-family:Arial;">Individual mappers download most
          recent data from <a
            href="https://data.gov.au/dataset/psma-administrative-boundaries"
            moz-do-not-send="true">https://data.gov.au/dataset/psma-administrative-boundaries</a>
          and add/check data in their areas of interest and/or when they
          have time.  (Andrew Harvey has provided a script <span
            class="text-gray-dark mr-2">to assist working with PSMA
            Administrative Boundaries Data</span> and there is a link on
          <a
            href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Data_Catalogue"
            moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Data_Catalogue</a>)<br>
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        <div style="font-family:Arial;">Administrative boundaries in
          NSW, SA, VIC and ACT be modified instance-by-instance if there
          are discrepancies that require updating. Where there are
          discrepancies, the most recent data is usually preferred . If
          there are concerns about accuracy of the most recent data,
          further consultation with other mappers or relevant government
          boundary authorities would be appropriate.<br>
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        <div style="font-family:Arial;">In QLD, WA, TAS and NT :  LGA
          and Suburb/Locality boundaries be added one at a time,
          integrating with existing data where appropriate.  Previous
          data from unauthorised sources be deleted or the authorised
          source be added if the data is accurate.<br>
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        <div style="font-family:Arial;">LGA Boundaries continue to be
          tagged as admin_level=6<br>
        </div>
        <div style="font-family:Arial;">Suburb/Locality boundaries be
          tagged as admin_level=10<br>
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        <div style="font-family:Arial;">In both instances
          source=PSMA_Admin_Boundaries_August_2018  <br>
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        <div style="font-family:Arial;">(or whichever date is applicable
          to the most recent data being used)<br>
        </div>
        <div style="font-family:Arial;">This source information may seem
          unwieldy but provides accuracy and completeness of
          information.<br>
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        <div style="font-family:Arial;">Administrative boundaries NOT be
          attached to other ways such as creeks, rivers, roads, etcetera
          so that the other features can be modified as needed without
          affecting the administrative boundaries which are generally
          static.<br>
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        <div style="font-family:Arial;">Multiple administrative
          boundaries (including national_parks and government approved
          protected_areas or state forests) be mapped on a single way,
          where appropriate, and with multiple relations attached to
          that single way i.e. a single way could form the boundaries
          for localities, LGAs and a national park, if appropriate in
          the particular location.<br>
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        <div style="font-family:Arial;">Electoral boundaries NOT be
          added at this time.<br>
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        <div style="font-family:Arial;">Other boundaries which have been
          discussed, such as regions and indigenous areas, NOT be added
          as part of this particular project unless they are LGAs or
          Suburbs/Localities (some indigenous areas may be identified as
          protected areas or defined localities or LGAs, in which case
          they are added and identified on that basis). Mapping of
          regions could be further discussed separately if required.
          They are usually not defined by legislation and therefore
          usually not "administrative" in the way that LGAs and
          Suburbs/Localities are legislated.<br>
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        <div>On Fri, Aug 31, 2018, at 4:23 PM, Andrew Harvey wrote:<br>
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                                      <div>The Department of Industry,
                                        Innovation and Science which
                                        manages <a
                                          href="http://data.gov.au"
                                          moz-do-not-send="true">data.gov.au</a>
                                        have just completed the OSMF CC
                                        BY waiver allowing the PSMA
                                        Administrative Boundaries[1] to
                                        be used within OpenStreetMap[2].<br>
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                                      <div><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>Quoting their email, "The
                                        Australian Government received
                                        great encouragement from PSMA
                                        Australia Limited to make the AB
                                        [Administrative Boundaries] data
                                        more accessible. Many thanks to
                                        OSM for your ongoing global open
                                        data efforts."<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>Others more active in working
                                        with admin boundaries in OSM
                                        might be able to comment further
                                        on my analysis, but I've taken a
                                        look at the current OSM data
                                        from a planet extract[3], using
                                        osmium tool to extract
                                        administrative boundaries[4]:<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>    osmium tags-filter
                                        australia-latest.osm.pbf
                                        nwr/boundary=administrative -o
                                        osm-admin-boundaries.osm.pbf<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>Then converted to GeoPackage
                                        to open in QGIS to compare to
                                        PSMA boundaries:<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>
                                        <div><br>
                                        </div>
                                        <div>    ogr2ogr -f GPKG
                                          osm-admin-boundaries.gpkg
                                          osm-admin-boundaries.osm.pbf<br>
                                        </div>
                                      </div>
                                      <div><br>
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                                      <div>The admin_level values for
                                        Australia are defined as[5]:<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>3 n/a<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>4 State or Territory<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>5 n/a (but used in Victoria
                                        for regions[6])<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>6 Local Government Area (eg
                                        Shire/Council)<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>7 District or Region (e.g
                                        Perthshire, Fitzroy, Canning,
                                        Greater Sydney, Greater
                                        Melbourne, etc.)<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>8 Postcode<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>9 Suburb and Locality<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>10 Suburb and Locality<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>(not sure why the split
                                        across 9 and 10...? but it looks
                                        like no data for 9 and all
                                        suburb/localities are marked as
                                        10, a seperate discussion but
                                        perhaps they should be 9 and
                                        smaller neighbourhoods be in
                                        10?)<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>PSMA Admin Boundaries provide
                                        (for Australia wide Shapefiles
                                        see [7] built from [8])<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>Commonwealth Electoral
                                        Boundaries (I don't think should
                                        be included in OSM)<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>State Electoral Boundaries (I
                                        don't think should be included
                                        in OSM)<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>State Boundaries<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>Local Government Areas<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>Suburbs / Localities<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>Town Points<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>Wards<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>admin_level 6 LGAs<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>It looks like NSW, VIC have
                                        complete LGA coverage already
                                        aside a few minor differences,
                                        but NT is patchy and TAS, QLD,
                                        WA are almost non-existent (ACT
                                        doesn't really have LGAs it's
                                        all managed by the Territory).
                                        SA is missing a few LGAs which
                                        exist in the PSMA data.<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>admin_level 7 is a mixed bag,
                                        but the PSMA data won't help
                                        here<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>suburbs/localities<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>NSW, VIC, SA all have pretty
                                        much complete data in OSM but
                                        there are a number of
                                        differences with the PSMA data
                                        which should warrent
                                        investigation and correction.<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>ACT I think has good existing
                                        data (in the PSMA data in
                                        suburb/localities there are both
                                        levels, eg. Canberra Centre and
                                        Parkes), but the districts have
                                        a slightly different name
                                        format.<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>All other states are empty in
                                        OSM.<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>Keeping in mind that we have
                                        state data for admin boundaries
                                        in VIC (VicMap), NSW (Spatial
                                        Services), ACT (ACTmapi) and SA
                                        (<a href="http://data.sa.gov.au"
                                          moz-do-not-send="true">data.sa.gov.au</a>)
                                        already.<br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>So there does appear to be a
                                        lot of data missing in OSM,
                                        which licensing wise we could
                                        bring in to OSM. So I guess the
                                        question is should we and how
                                        should we do that. Is anyone
                                        interested in working on this?
                                        If people are, I think it should
                                        go through the proper import
                                        process (discuss first, identify
                                        the process and then execute).<br>
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                                      <div><br>
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                                      <div>[1] <a
                                          href="https://data.gov.au/dataset/psma-administrative-boundaries"
                                          moz-do-not-send="true">https://data.gov.au/dataset/psma-administrative-boundaries</a><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>[2] <a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Department_of_Industry_Innovation_and_Science_ODbl_permission_Administrative_Boundaries.pdf"
                                          moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Department_of_Industry_Innovation_and_Science_ODbl_permission_Administrative_Boundaries.pdf</a><br>
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                                      <div>[3] <a
                                          href="http://download.openstreetmap.fr/extracts/oceania/"
                                          moz-do-not-send="true">http://download.openstreetmap.fr/extracts/oceania/</a><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>[4] <a
                                          href="https://osmcode.org/osmium-tool/manual.html#filtering-by-tags"
                                          moz-do-not-send="true">https://osmcode.org/osmium-tool/manual.html#filtering-by-tags</a><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>[5] <a
href="https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative#10_admin_level_values_for_specific_countries"
                                          moz-do-not-send="true">https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dadministrative#10_admin_level_values_for_specific_countries</a><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>[6] <a
                                          href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_Victoria"
                                          moz-do-not-send="true">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regions_of_Victoria</a><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>[7] <a
                                          href="https://tianjara.net/data/psma-admin-bdys/"
                                          moz-do-not-send="true">https://tianjara.net/data/psma-admin-bdys/</a><br>
                                      </div>
                                      <div>[8] <a
                                          href="https://github.com/andrewharvey/psma-admin-bdys-data"
                                          moz-do-not-send="true">https://github.com/andrewharvey/psma-admin-bdys-data</a><br>
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          <div><u>_______________________________________________</u><br>
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          <div>Talk-au mailing list<br>
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          <div><a
              href="https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au"
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