[talk-au] vicmap data licensing

[Li]

Does anyone have experience on importing data? In particular avoiding duplicates?

Li.

> On 10 Oct 2013, at 5:16 pm, Ben Kelley <ben.kelley at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> 
> I guess the thing to consider is how you would handle a second import if someone had edited the data in OSM in between.
> 
> I think this kind of conflict would be very difficult to resolve. You could either plan to do a 1-off import, or maybe include a tag on the imported data matching a unique identifier for the same feature in the vicmap data. The US Tiger import did something like this.
> 
>   - Ben Kelley.
> 
>> On 10 Oct 2013 17:12, "Li Xia" <me at lixia.co> wrote:
>> Hi everyone,
>> 
>> I'm meeting Vicmap and data.gov staff tomorrow to get their blessing on importing vicmap data into OSM. 
>> 
>> Once the licensing is squared away, we can move onto discussing techniques of importing the data. "Snapshot" data in shp format is available from data.vic.gov.au. Alternatively a vicmap provides a live feed to weekly data diffs directly. Any advice on how to import this data is much appreciated.
>> 
>> Li
>> 
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