[talk-au] New CC-BY datasets due Monday 28 September on Government 2.0 Taskforce website

[Sam Vekemans]

Cool,

Just one comment.  If it was me working on it, i would hesitate on adding in
roads where they are 'estimated' because it is not known as a fact.  Once
all the property boundaries are in there, i think that will cause a natural
'growth' in OSM activity, and people would want to help out ... by going
along that way with a GPS, and getting some tracks.  so not even listing a
highway=road, might be the best way to go.  IMO

Once a few tracks (even 1 will do) whoever is tracing there own tracks will
have a 'guide' to work with already.   This way, we will know for sure that
roads exist where they do in real-life.
It will also give an opportunity for that local area mapper to add in other
POI along the way. :-)

Another note, is bigtincan hosting a planet-dump and diff/load for your
slippy map?

... and what do you think of my way of conducting the import (just making
the .osm files available (hosting them on mediafire.com), and letting local
are mappers drop-in the data at their leisure? and organizing it all with a
Googledocs chart?   (itching for feedback here)
http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Am70fsptsPF2dG1ZN1YwMmZCVDhDOHZpbUNmOGlvWGc&hl=en


.. and BTW, bigtincan is awesome :-)

Is BTC mapper going to add Garmin Maps to that list?

Cheers,
Sam Vekemans
Across Canada Trails

P.S.  Yup, i knew that the government would open up, it was just a matter of
time.  :-)  ... i guess the rest of the common wealth countries might be
next.   Only, if the Queen says so. ;)
http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/licence.jsp  (Her Majesty the Queen in
Right of Canada (Canada) as represented by the Minister of Natural Resources
Canada.)

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On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 9:56 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:

> Using the property boundary WMS tiles I managed to redo a largish
> chunk of the Condamine river near Chinchilla, the property boundary
> data isn't 100% perfect for this purpose but it is certainly much
> better than the low res sat imagery.
>
> http://maps.bigtincan.com/?z=12&ll=-26.824,150.662&layer=B00000000TT
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