[talk-au] Proposed Data import - Queensland, Australia: Peaks and Mountains

[Simon Poole]

Hi Christpher

I wouldn't add data from STRM in. On the hand it is easy to extract from
SRTM itself (as you have seen), on the other hand, particularly for
peaks, it is sure to be way off.

It just seem to be a tad bit silly that the government dataset doesn't
include elevation with the dataset in the first place.

Simon

Am 04.05.2014 09:01, schrieb Christopher Barham:
> Hi Simon,
> 
> Ref Elevation data for mountain nodes, 
> Following your question, I realised that the height should be available from the NASA SRTM datasets; so have just tried to add it to the peaks/mountains nodes as an ele tag in metres.
> Have added a section to the wiki import proposal page on adding the ele tag with values from SRTM here: http://bit.ly/1lNmCyN
> 
> Test output file of the result is here (mountains with heights) : https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/446994/osmQldPeaks/test_with_srtm.osm
> 
> currently the ele values are floats, so I'll add a manual step to round the metres from floats to integers before any import.
> 
> Cheers,
> Chas
> 
> On 4 May 2014, at 0:08, Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:
> 
>> Christopher,
>>
>> I just browsed through the .osm file and then checked the .csv, is it
>> correct that the import (and the original data) doesn't actually have
>> any elevation information?
>>
>> Simon
>>
>> Am 03.05.2014 21:00, schrieb Christopher Barham:
>>> Hi,
>>> I'd like to propose a small data import of ~2500 nodes describing peaks and mountains in Queensland sourced from Qld govt Place names Gazetteer.
>>>
>>> I've had a look at the data to import, and also the existing OSM nodes, and think this could be a viable.  There would be manual review required before uploading, especially to ensure we do not duplicate the existing ~500 nodes, but feel it could be worth it as we are unlikely to get the data any other way for the more remote parts of the state.
>>>
>>> I've documented the proposed import steps on the wiki here:
>>> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australia/Queensland/The_Department_of_Environment_and_Resource_Management/Peaks_And_Mountains_Import
>>>
>>> That page also has links to relevant data files I have created for review.
>>>
>>> Please let me have your feedback on this proposal.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Chas
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