[talk-au] Geoscience Austrailia - international tagging standards

[Sam Vekemans]

Thanks,
The Aboriginal Lands data is an interesting dataset, because in
Canada's CanVec data it's only available as points, but through a
separate arm of The federal government, the polygon data is available
throuh geobase, just as the National protected areas are available in
a separate dataset ... Canada Post has postcode boundaries and
Statistics Canada has admin boundaries.


Does Australia have a similar situation? If so, can someone provide
links to locations of other datasets?


Thanks,
Sam


p.s. im sending this to the outer osgeo mailing list, as my project is
looking at all geo data, not necessarly data that will be used for
OpenStreetMap

On 9/12/10, Markus <markus_g at bigpond.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Sam,
>
> Here is a tagging scheme that may match one the themes that includes
> protected areas, such as for national-parks, water protection areas or
> indigenous areas or etc.:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dprotected_area
>
> Also here is a link to the map features page.
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features
>
> Regards,
>
> Markus_g
>
>
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> Subject: [talk-au] Geoscience Austrailia - international tagging standards
>
> Hi all,
> I am currently (just about done) going through the Geoscience
> Austrailia pdf user guide, which lists all of the map features for in
> the 'Geodata Topo 250k Series 3 User Guide'
>
>
> There are about 159 unique map features, divided into 10 themes.
>
>
> Whats interesting is to compare these features with the Natural
> Resources Canada CanVec dataset (which is also at 250k scale).
> There are many similarities (some differnces) in the datasets.
>
>
> I am developing a Universal tagging Schema (I call 'SchemaTroll 2.01')
> where it can look at the map features from Datasets around the world
> (including the Garmin defaults) and cross-reference it with the
> 'free-tagging system' of OpenStreetMap.
>
>
> So i am wondering if anyone has aldready examined these 159 features
> and selected an appropriate estimated equivelent to OpenStreetMap
> tags.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Sam Vekemans
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