[talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 76, Issue 5

Daniel O'Connor daniel.oconnor at gmail.com
Sat Oct 12 01:21:00 UTC 2013


Can I recommend for the smaller data sets, that conversion scripts are done
and published to github?

Ie: shp to geo json is done, then geojosn to osm, plus splitting, etc?
That allows you to preview, and when the underlying data changes, version
control it a little.

I have the same issues to solve for SA data (roads, boundaries, etc)

On Saturday, October 12, 2013, Li Xia wrote:

> "We need to get the vicmap data in a form that will have maximum" - can
> you be more specific?
>
> Do you have any experience in merging datasets in josm?
>
> Li.
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 9:18 AM, Ian Sergeant <inas66+osm at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Whatever process we undertake will have large manual elements to
> integrate the datasets and keep them updated.  Even if that is simply
> merging the datasets in josm.
>
> We need to get the vicmap data in a form that will have maximum
> utility to OSM mappers.
>
> Ian.
>
> On 12 October 2013 09:09, Li Xia <me at lixia.co> wrote:
> > Hi Nick,
> >
> > Yes, vicmap data does contain road geometry, names plus many more
> > attributes.
> >
> > Vicmap also produces are raster version from this dataset so that work is
> > already done. I will enquiry about getting access to this. However
> manually
> > tracing and editing is a LOT of work.
> >
> > Does anyone know of a process where a mass import can be done without
> > manually tracing imagery?
> >
> > The dataset is very comprehensive. Here's a quick summary of it's
> features:
> >
> > Release under Creative commons 3.0 license, dataset can be obtained in
> > various formats from http://www.data.vic.gov.au/ The has heaps of
> datasets.
> > I've downloaded most relevant datasets in shp format and combined the
> > datasets into logical structure, download links below. If anyone is
> interest
> > in other features such as forestry reserves, national parks etc, have a
> look
> > and pull the data down from data.vic.
> >
> > Transport shp data documentation
> > Hydro - shp data - documentation
> > Administrative - shp data
> >
> > Li.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 11:00 PM, <talk-au-request at openstreetmap.org>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> Send Talk-au mailing list submissions to
> >>         talk-au at openstreetmap.org
> >>
> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit
> >>         https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
> >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to
> >>         talk-au-request at openstreetmap.org
> >>
> >> You can reach the person managing the list at
> >>         talk-au-owner at openstreetmap.org
> >>
> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
> >> than "Re: Contents of Talk-au digest..."
> >>
> >>
> >> Today's Topics:
> >>
> >>    1. Re: vicmap data licensing (Li)
> >>    2. Re: vicmap data licensing (Nick Hocking)
> >>
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >>
> >> Message: 1
> >> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 07:37:31 +1100
> >> From: Li <me at lixia.co>
> >> To: Ben Kelley <ben.kelley at gmail.com>
> >> Cc: OSM Australian Talk List <talk-au at openstreetmap.org>
> >> Subject: Re: [talk-au] vicmap data licensing
> >> Message-ID: <91641499-6FB4-426C-8313-C0D82C305273 at lixia.co>
> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
> >>
> >> 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.
> >> >
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/attachments/20131012/98a020af/attachment.html>


More information about the Talk-au mailing list