[Imports] Importing locality names from GeoScience Australia dataset.

[Paul Norman]

Hello,

 

If you're considering importing you need to read
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines and make sure that
you've followed all of the steps before uploading anything else.

 

One of these is talking with the local community, which is why I've cc'ed
talk-au@ on this message.

 

I would suggest a different source tag. The source tag is for mappers, not
for attribution (which is done at
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors). There is some debate as to
if you should have source on both the changeset and the objects or just the
changeset. If you do decide to have source on the objects, I'd suggest just
source=GeoScience Australia DATASET_NAME, with an appropriate value of
DATASET_NAME.

 

It's worth documenting the data source and licensing. I think it's CC BY
which is okay, but it'd be good to have this documented on the wiki.

 

Are all of them place=locality or is it possible to get more detailed
tagging?

 

When it's time to upload JOSM can work if you split the uploads into smaller
regions, which is a good idea anyways.

 

From: Li Xia [mailto:lisxia1982 at gmail.com] 
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2012 9:49 PM
To: imports at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [Imports] Importing locality names from GeoScience Australia
dataset.

 

Hey everyone, 

 

A quick intro, I'm Li, founder of  <http://mud-maps.com/> mud-maps.com 

 

We are currently working on a rendering engine that supports OSM for iOS and
after running some number os the Australian OSM data, i've noticed that it's
lacking a lot of place names. Comparing OSM data to GeoScience (GA) data,
here are some numbers.

 

. place:locality = around 1000 as of 23 Oct 2012.

. GeoScience locality = around 20,000.

 

I've extracted the place:locality, hamlet, suburb, violate, town, city data
nodes from OSM australia and GA data and ran a name string comparison to
eliminate duplicates and would like to upload the difference to OSM.

 

I have 2 questions:

 

1. Can anyone suggest tags other than the following?

name:<different>

place:locality

source: C Commonwealth of Australia (GeoScience Australia) 2006. 

 

2. Using JOSM at the moment and uploads take a while, is there a better way
of bulk uploading data? 

 

Look forward to your suggestions.

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