[talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 65, Issue 15

wil ly rednorth at gmail.com
Wed Nov 21 05:13:05 GMT 2012


Ok, will do.


On 21 November 2012 13:26, Ian Sergeant <inas66+osm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Please be careful that we are allowed to copy this data.
>
> Confirm with the council that they allow this data to be used in OSM under
> our licence, and post their response to the wiki.
>
> Ian.
>
> On 21 November 2012 13:00, wil ly <rednorth at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>  RE: tourist drives
>>
>> I just noticed today that Google Maps has tourist route shields, eg:
>> https://www.google.com/maps?q=-28.333093,152.296257&hl=en&ll=-28.289266,152.124252&spn=0.500638,0.696945&num=1&t=m&z=11
>>
>> In this example, however, only the initial shield is displayed (possibly
>> reflecting a paucity of road signage). In other locations, such as:
>>
>>
>> https://www.google.com/maps?q=Tourist+Drive+23,+Landsborough,+Queensland,+Australia&hl=en&sll=-27.567038,151.976793&sspn=0.007875,0.01089&oq=tourist+drive&dirflg=ht&doflg=ptk&hnear=Tourist+Drive+23,+Landsborough+Queensland+4550,+Australia&t=m&z=14
>>
>> have far more shields displayed.
>>
>> I have also been in touch with Nathan of Southern Downs regional council
>> in QLD who has given me 5 routes (1, 11, 12, 14, 21) so I'll put those in
>> OSM.
>>
>> I asked him if he knew of any other council reps who could give me data,
>> but I think it's going to be a matter of me contacting them myself. I also
>> got a CD of PDFs from Mike Keenan (spelling?) at QLD Main Roads which show
>> routes for many (most?) regional council areas of QLD. These maps have
>> tourist routes marked but they are at a very small scale so digitising will
>> cause errors... possibly.
>>
>> Wil
>>
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