[talk-au] [OSM-talk] bulk loading towns/cities locations

Brent Easton b.easton at exemail.com.au
Wed Nov 14 23:01:07 GMT 2007


Hi Paul,

Are you on the talk-au list? I am copying my reply over there.

I have started uploading population centre data for NSW. I have tried as best as I can to remove any duplicates before uploading so as not to add to any existing towns, but I have probably missed a few.

I have done most of southern and western NSW and am starting on Northern NSW.  The specification of town size is a bit dodgy as you have seen and may need some adjustment.

I have been uploading by Local Government Area (LGA). I have not touched the ,major cities yet, but I also have data for all suburbs of Canberra, Sydnet and Newcastle. This will more of a problem to merge. Who would like to help? I can provide the full data for a given LGA in an Excel spreadsheet that automatically generated a suitable .osm file for loading into JOSM, or I can just supply the final .osm file.

Let me know which LGA's you are interested in and I will send. Reply to the talk-au list.

Regards,
Brent.

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On 15/11/2007 at 8:34 AM Paul  wrote:

>I see a some towns/villages has been loaded for NSW Australia.. good job..
>now I guess we need to remove duplicates...
>ie remove either the imported marker or existing as I notice some  places
>are marked as 
>cities when they are small towns or villages
>
>Paul
>
>On 4/11/2007 5:47 PM, Brent Easton wrote:
>> Hi Paul,
>> 
>> There are thousands of towns not loaded in Australia! 
>> 
>> The good news is that there is a free set of data available from the
>Geographical Names Board that specifies every named location in Australia
>and specifies a Lat and Lon.
>> 
>> The bad news is that the data is only recorded to the nearest minute
>(from memory) which means that each name can be up to about 1.8km from it
>actual location, and all location with 1.8km of another end up in the same
>place.
>> 
>> We can load this data up fairly easily. There is a script that was used
>to load the equivalent data from Ireland.
>> 
>> The question is how useful this is, given the (in)accuracy of the data.
>It depends on what the Australian Community think.
>> 
>> I can see some advantage to this (if the existing names in Australia
>where removed before the upload) to give a rough location of towns, but
>have always been hesitant because of the innacuracy. It also includes
>locations for all suburbs in cities, and these will just end up piled on
>top of each other .
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Brent.
>> 
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>> On 4/11/2007 at 4:23 PM Paul  wrote:
>> 
>>> Is there a feature to bulk load the location of  towns/villages/cities
>>> etc..? ie just the marker for its location (not the ways)
>>>
>>> I found that there maybe several towns not loaded into OSM for Australia
>>> , so would it be easier to load these placemakers into the system in
>Bulk?
>>>
>>> Paul
>>>
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Brent Easton                       
Analyst/Programmer                               
University of Western Sydney                                   
Email: b.easton at uws.edu.au





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