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

[Sean]

I have to agree with Peter and Cameron.  I can't see why some sort of 
script can't be written to merge the data.  If one of the admins of OSM 
was to do it, it could make the job a lot easier.  I think that is 
something for if and when the data is made available.

Sean

Cameron osm-mailing-lists-at-justcameron.com |Open Street Map| wrote:
> It would take less time than mapping it all though ;)
>
> On 25/12/2007, *Brent Easton* <b.easton at exemail.com.au 
> <mailto:b.easton at exemail.com.au> > wrote:
>
>     Hi Peter,
>
>     Fair enough.
>
>     Merging the data in where it is needed will be a huge PITA though.
>
>     Cheers,
>     Brent.
>
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>     On 24/12/2007 at 10:51 PM Peter Ross  wrote:
>
>     >On 12/24/07, Brent Easton <b.easton at exemail.com.au
>     <mailto:b.easton at exemail.com.au>> wrote:
>     >> 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.
>     >>
>     >I disagree, I would immediately load it into osm using the tag
>     >source=geoscience-250k or something.  Then people would be aware of
>     >the possibility of errors and as people actually travelled the roads
>     >they would be moved to where they actually are.  One of the nice
>     >things about OSM is that errors will eventually get fixed.
>     >
>     >Personally I use the 250k data using shonkymaps and it is great for
>     >all those hundreds of kms of bush tracks that exist in our state
>     >forests and national parks, and seeing how long it will take to map
>     >all of that stuff, I would love to have a source for the beginning of
>     >it, that could be gradually refined.
>     >
>     >Just my 2 cents.
>     >Peter
>     >
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>     Brent Easton
>     Analyst/Programmer
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