[talk-au] Proposed data import. Queensland peaks and mountains

[Tim Ney]

I worked for the department of natural resources and mines so some 6 years and I have experimented with the place name data.  I don't want to be a downer but I found the information to be so inaccurate as to border on useless.  I compared the nodes to aerial photos and to 1 mile and 5 mile hand drawn maps i have dating back to the 1930's.  Nodes were spelt wrong, names wrong altogether and locations were up to several kilometres out.  I would be hesitate to use any data from the place names database.  Place names are normally the custodian of local government.  I would not like to see my manually entered nodes overridden with incorrect spelling from a global input.  The only way this concept would be viable is to import shire by shire and confirm names with each local government or other reliable source such as very old survey plans and maps.  I am a surveyor by trade with a keen interest in ensuring ground truthed data rather than global input.  Tim

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