[talk-au] National Park & Marine Park boundaries

[b.schulz.10 at scu.edu.au]

As it stands this hasn't really been addressed. Generally I just mark what's on the ground, ie the natural=wood boundary as this tends to give a reasonable indication of the national park boundary anyway. Obviously this has limits, but unless some government authority grants us use of their maps there's nothing we can really do about it.

It's worth noting that I don't believe that anyone's actually tried approaching a government body about it.

As for marine boundaries go, why isn't a set of GPS co-ordinates sufficient to map out various zones? Unless there's some form of copyright on the location of the zone itself it should be ok just to draw onto the map purely based on these numbers.

If you want to get a bit more adventurous it's probably possible to programme in the set of co-ordinates as a GPS route then hop in a boat and trace the lines out in real life, but I don't see why this would really be required.

Brent.

----- Original Message -----
From: Matt White <mattwhite at iinet.net.au>
Date: Wednesday, December 17, 2008 9:37 pm
Subject: [talk-au] National Park & Marine Park boundaries
To: OSM Australian Talk List <talk-au at openstreetmap.org>

> How are people mapping National Park (or state forest or other 
> government mandated areas)? It seems that in a lot of cases, 
> there is no 
> way of actually doing an on the ground survey - a lot of the 
> boundaries 
> aren't marked, the areas can be massively inaccessible etc.
> 
> Add to that things like marine park boundaries, or no fishing 
> areas 
> which are often defined on marine maps as just a set of GPS 
> locations 
> (and there is obviously no way of physically mapping those 
> areas), and 
> it seems there are a lot of things that we have to rely on 
> getting the 
> data from other sources for.(I include marine park/no fishing 
> areas as 
> my partners father asked about it - I see no good reason why 
> such 
> features couldn't be added to OSM)
> 
> Question is: is it legit to use park/forest boundaries taken 
> from 
> government sources? If not, how on earth are we going to solve 
> this 
> little problem?
> 
> Matt
> 
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