[talk-au] Bulk loading all the Australian Statistical Geography Standard into the OSM - a query from the Australian Bureau of Statistics [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

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On 24/02/11 12:50, John Smith wrote:
> On 24 February 2011 10:52, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 1) OSM's core purpose is as a street map
> 
> This hasn't been the case for quite some time.
> 
> Not to mention that the previous ABS data has been very useful in
> regional areas for plotting physical features, like roads, that
> couldn't be obtained any other way at the time. I can only assume the
> new data would be the same, if not better, than the existing data
> which would continue to improve map data available in regional areas.

For <expletive elided>'s sake, with due respect to Andrew Harvey and
Steve Bennett, shouldn't the community be a whole lot better off
expressing appropriate gratitude to Marcus Blake for offering this data
and then pissing off and finding a use for it!

No wonder no bloody government supplier wants to give us data. We are so
damned ungrateful for what we get!

I genuinely hope I have hurt a few feelings. At least I will have made
the point.