[talk-au] Explicit Permission to use NSW Land and Property Information data

[Warin]

On 8/12/2015 3:14 PM, Andrew Harvey wrote:
>
> On 8 December 2015 at 04:54, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com 
> <mailto:penorman at mac.com>> wrote:
>
>     When we're talking about source tags, we should use whatever is
>     useful for mappers. In theory source date tags can be useful, but
>     in practice I've not seen them worth the bother.
>
>
> Agreed. As a mapper something easy to type is ideal such as 
> lpi_imagery, lpi_basemap, but I'm not overly fussed. I don't know how 
> much I would use the Base map though since I generally favor on the 
> ground verification. the Imagery will be very useful for more accurate 
> tracing.


I have been surprised at how accurate the base map is in its location.  
The imagery would be usefull for building locations etc.

The base map has things like post offices, libraries, medical, RFS, 
parks, mountain tops, saddles, creeks, stations (homesteads, ranches) 
with their names. And  property address numbers for adding the address 
information.

On the ground sourcing is a much much slower process ... and has 'us' 
with lots of blank information. The base map will be very usefull to me 
at least... to get information that is presently missing in OSM. Must be 
1,000s of street names missing in Sydney alone.

I'm using JOSM .. and find a source tag can be nicely descriptive and 
used repetitively using a simple mouse click process once typed 
initially. You could also use a copy and paste system. I tend to use one 
source at at time so this works well for me.

Verification is a much quicker process - you spot what is wrong and only 
need to note that .. not every street name and its location.

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