[talk-au] Bicentennial National Trail

Chris Barham cbarham at pobox.com
Thu Oct 6 03:56:40 BST 2011


The 5,330 km National Trail known as the "Australian Bicentennial
National Trail (BNT)", is only partially mapped in OSM.

Refs:
OSM existing Route Relation: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/176684
There is a website regarding the trail here http://www.nationaltrail.com.au/

I suppose that the reason it's not on OSM is because the guidebooks
with the route have to be purchased, are copyrighted, and in some
cases out of print or very hard to find.

The Queensland government has free vector data of the Qld section of
the route under a seemingly permissive licence (it's the
"DERM_SHORT_OPEN").

I wondered if anyone had heard of this licene before and whether it
considered to be OSM compatible, and this route relation could then be
updated using this file?

Getting the data:
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1) Go to http://dds.information.qld.gov.au/dds/
2) in section 2 enter search term "National Trail"
3) Result should be "Bicentennial National Trail in Queensland" datset
4) Download

Dataset: Metadata:
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Text
Bicentennial National Trail in Queensland

Date: 18-03-2010 (revision)
Maintenance and update frequency: not planned

Abstract: The Bicentennial National Trail is the longest marked,
non-motorised, self-reliant multi-use trekking route in the world,
stretching an extraordinary 5,330 kilometres from Cooktown in tropical
North Queensland, to Healesville in Victoria.
Following the inspiration of the legendary bushman R. M. Williams, the
Trail follows the historic coach and stock routes, old pack horse
trails, and country roads. Wherever possible along its great length
the Trail has been designed to be a "living history" of our country,
following the routes of our early pioneers and highlighting historic
sites and artifacts along the way. The trail has been mapped within
Queensland by the Queensland Government for the National Trail
Organisation circa 1987. See www.nationaltrail.com.au for more
information. The original maps within Queensland were compiled and
supplied by the Department of Lands, Queensland Government. These maps
were digitised and have been realigned to agree with the digital
cadastral database.

Owner: Department of Environment and Resource Management
Data / Resource Constraints:
Copyright: (C) The State of Queensland (Department of Environment and
Resource Management) 2010
Licence: DERM_SHORT_OPEN
Lineage: This dataset was digitised from Department of Lands 1:100000
cadastral paper maps used to create the maps in the National Trail
guidebooks. The original maps in the National Trail guidebooks within
Queensland were compiled and supplied by the Department of Lands,
Queensland Government in 1987 for the publication in 1988 (first
edition) and with some revisions in 1992 (second edition).
Data Quality:
Positional accuracy: If captured from 1:100000 Provisional Cadastral
Maps positional accuracy +- 250 metres and from 1:100000 Standard
Cadastral Maps positional accuracy +- 55 metres.


Chris

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