[Imports] [talk-au] Public Barbeques in the ACT

[Riley Baird]

On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 18:09:20 +1100
Andrew Harvey <andrew.harvey4 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 at 17:48, Graeme Fitzpatrick <graemefitz1 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 at 16:19, Riley Baird <riley at mailo.com> wrote:
> >> At present, the data is released under CC BY 4.0 international, so it
> >> appears that I would have to send a message requesting permission to
> >> use it in a way compatible with the OSM licence.
> > Have a look at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Data_Catalogue - we've already been given permission to use that info, together with a heap more ACT data.
> 
> ^ this, we already have the waiver completed for ACTMapi data which
> includes the BBQ dataset.

Thanks, that makes things much easier!

> On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 at 00:27, Mateusz Konieczny <matkoniecz at tutanota.com> wrote:
> > What was your way of checking quality of this data? I had experience with some
> > official data that was good enough to help with mapping (detection of places where features
> > were not mapped) but was full of mistakes including poor locations and
> > nonexisting objects.
> 
> I agree with this, I've seen both good and poor data, so it's a good
> idea to do some basic checking of the data quality before bringing it
> in.

Right, is that just basically visiting places? What do you think a
reasonable number to check would be before importing?

> > As a start, I was considering importing their "Public Barbeques in the
> > ACT" dataset, which does not appear to currently be included in the map.
> 
> Do you have a plan in place of how you'd do the import? Ensuring
> correct tags are used and data is conflated with whats in OSM already?

Not in detail yet, I'll be able to get a better idea once I can read
the import documentation.