[talk-au] Geoscience Australia 1:250K data

[Brent Easton]

I would be hesitant to use much of this data, especially roads because of that error. I think you will find that that error is the average error. I have seen it out by 200m and it is also pretty old so has no recent deviations or realignments. It is also plain wrong in places. It would be a shame to load up this data next to our <10m gpx tracks.

What it would be very useful for is a source of the difficult parts of the state borders, and National Park borders.

Brent.

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On 24/12/2007 at 1:04 PM Sean Williams  wrote:

>That is excellent news and will save a bit of work.  The data will still 
>need a little bit of work to a line it.  The data is out by 50m or 100m 
>or something like that.  I just remember how far now.  Still good enough 
>to be used.  I just hope they don't take to long to bring it under the 
>new licence.
>
>Sean
>
>
>Cameron osm-mailing-lists-at-justcameron.com |Open Street Map| wrote:
>> Hey folks,
>>
>> Geoscience Australia is "considering" making their 1:250K data (and
>> possibly more) available under a Creative Commons license. This would
>> be be a great datasource for OSM. For those of you who use Garmin GPS
>> units, you can check out what the data looks like by having a look at
>> Shonkymaps - http://shonkylogic.net/shonkymaps/ (You need Mapsource to
>> look at that.) (340 MB download.)
>>
>> For those of you who don't have Mapsource, look at any 1:250k map and
>> that's basically what you'd get. The dataset contains almost all the
>> roads in rural areas, but only main roads in urban/built up areas.
>>
>> They are of course only "considering" the license, and it will
>> probably be some time before they ever make a decision, but I thought
>> it was exciting anyway.
>>
>> ~Cameron
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>  From: Cheryl.Camp at ga.gov.au <Cheryl.Camp at ga.gov.au>
>> Date: 20 Dec 2007 08:24
>> Subject: RE: Openstreetmap [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
>> To: Cameron
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Cameron
>>
>> The creative commons licence is being considered by Geoscience
>> Australia as well as Attorney Generals and other departments so I am
>> not expecting anything before the end of the financial year.
>>
>>
>> Cheryl
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>  From: Cameron
>>  Sent: Thursday, 20 December 2007 1:45 AM
>>  To: Camp Cheryl
>>  Subject: Re: Openstreetmap [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]
>>
>>
>> Cheryl,
>>
>>  If the data were to be made available under a compatible license, it
>> would be imported into the openstreetmap as raw data (points, lines
>> and areas.) Raster images would be of limited use.
>>
>>  It's great to hear that you are at least considering the Creative
>> Commons license. Do you have even a vague estimate as to how long your
>> lawyer people might take to make a decision? (A week, a month, 6
>> months, a year?)
>>
>>  Thanks,
>>  ~Cameron Roy
>>
>>
>> On 14/12/2007,  Cheryl.Camp at ga.gov.au < Cheryl.Camp at ga.gov.au> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Cameron
>>
>> Geoscience Australia is currently looking at the Creative Commons
>> Licence and the implications for our products, but this will not be
>> introduced for a while yet, however Geodata 250K is designed for GIS
>> software such as ArcGis or Mapinfo.  If you are looking at using the
>> Raster image (scanned images) of 250K maps then they can be downloaded
>> from the Geoscience Australia website.  We do expect however copyright
>> acknowledgment.  If you have other questions on Geoscience Australia
>> products please email sales at ga.gov.au
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
>> Cheryl Camp
>>
>> Copyright Manager
>>  Geoscience Australia
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>  From: Cameron
>>  Posted At: Thursday, 13 December 2007 4:07 AM
>>  Posted To: Copyright
>>  Conversation: Openstreetmap
>>  Subject: Openstreetmap
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>>  I was wondering if it would be possible for GEODATA TOPO 250K to be
>> available licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
>> 2.0 license - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/ ?
>>
>>  If this were possible, the data could be contributed to
>> Openstreetmap, a project aiming to create free maps of the whole
>> world. For more information on Openstreetmap, try
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openstreetmap and
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Main_Page
>>
>>  Regards,
>>
>>  ~Cameron Roy
>>
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Brent Easton                       
Analyst/Programmer                               
University of Western Sydney                                   
Email: b.easton at uws.edu.au