[talk-au] National Park Boundaries from LPI NSW Admin Boundaries

[Andrew Harvey]

On 23 December 2015 at 22:33, Nev Wedding <nwastra at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have been using the LPI NSW Administrative Boundaries NPWS Reserve to
> enter the boundaries of each section of the Goobang National Park as I was
> recently there and recorded a few gps tracks as well.
> It seems to me that I am probably wasting my efforts just following around
> the rest of the boundary and marking it out with mouse-clicks and the bottom
> section of the park, which I am still to do, is a big effort.
> Is someone likely to import the database data for each park on which the
> layer is based…or should I continue with the mouse.
> Once the boundary is done I will leave others to add other data from the
> other layers from LPI who are more familiar with the area.
> thanks

This is a tough one. On one hand there are immediate benefits of
getting these park boundaries into OSM, which in theory you can do now
in the way you describe. On the other hand actually importing the data
would be easier and better, but not likely to happen just yet.

I've made some progress in getting a mapping for CAPAD data (which
groups together protected bounderies from all states) to OSM at
https://github.com/andrewharvey/capad2osm (sample data at
http://tianjara.net/data/osm/imports/capad.osm.xz)

I haven't even started on the licensing issue.

Although not a solution, for other projects based on OSM, I've
actually done post-processing to remove all OSM parks and replace them
with the CAPAD government data.

The data specifically for NSW is potentially available but can't find
any specific data download URLs for it:
https://sdi.nsw.gov.au/sdi.nsw.gov.au/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7B282174F3-6686-4841-8682-840D952DA5B0%7D
https://sdi.nsw.gov.au/sdi.nsw.gov.au/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7BF744AA2D-793B-4CF3-BEDE-41A96D9975FA%7D