[talk-au] Tasmanian transmission line import

[Ian Sergeant]

Hi,

This needs to go through imports process (the imports list, and the
imports on the wiki).  We need to document the licence stuff so there
are no problems later.

Personally, I'd be inclined to sit on this for a month or two, until
we are recovered from more of the redaction issues.  Adding wires
seems a bit like icing the cake when the sponge isn't set.

And yes, the second would be my preferred option, too, but make the
data available for people who want to merge.

Ian.

On 3 September 2012 21:25, Charles Gregory <osm.lists at chuq.net> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've received a KML of all of Tasmania's high voltage transmission lines
> from a representative of Transend Networks, with no restrictions on their
> usage, so I am free to upload these into OSM.
>
> At the moment in OSM, some lines already exist and include towers (sourced
> from bing imagery), some only have towers (most likely due to redaction),
> and some lines are not marked at all.
>
> The KML file includes only lines - not towers - they have a license for the
> tower information - while it costs nothing, it can not be re-distributed.
>
> I could
> 1) Delete the existing data and replace with 100% official data, but then
> the tower information would be lost.
> 2) Only replace the missing lines, but then there would be inconsistencies
> (some with towers, some without).
>
> What is the preferred option?   I'm tending to go with the second option,
> since from a brief inspection, the existing OSM ways are pretty accurate
> when compared with the official data.  So long as the sources for each line
> are accurate it shouldn't be too much of an issue.
>
> Regards,
>
> Charles Gregory
>
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