[talk-au] NSW Rail Data Import

[Warin]

Welcome indeed Patricia!

By placing your data into OSM there is  legal stuff to consider ..  the 
entered data becomes available for anyone to use. Some simple reading 
for non lawyers http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright

Conflating or merging your data can be tedious where both data bases 
contain what is supposedly the same thing.
An assessment of which is 'best' and where transitions occur is difficult.
Where the features are above ground satellite imagery is helpful.
Underground stuff is very difficult .. for example I recently made some 
changes to platforms 5 and 6 at Epping Station base on the above ground 
positions of the lifts.

Please ask for any difficulties you may have, or where you require more 
information.

On 27-Mar-17 08:34 AM, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> Hi Patricia,
>
> It's really great to see your interest here! It is very much welcome.
>
> I would recommend you take a look at the Import Guidelines if you 
> haven't already 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines which explain 
> the process for doing imports into OSM. Covering licensing community 
> by-in and how to actually do an import.
>
> The OpenStreetMap wiki is the best place to find out about our schema. 
> Information about railway mapping is at 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Railways and 
> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OpenRailwayMap/Tagging.
>
> In my eyes the biggest challenge will be conflating your data with the 
> existing OSM data. It's likely this will need to be done manually, but 
> certainly something which we will be able to work out through further 
> discussion and exploration.
>
> Are you considering also releasing this data set on it's own as open 
> data? That would allow the OSM community to have a look at this data 
> to see what might be involved in merging it with OSM.
>
> Don't hesitate to ask for further help, there are some very passionate 
> people in our OSM community.
>
> Best regards,
> --
> Andrew Harvey
>
>
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2017, at 08:13 AM, BYRNE, PATRICIA wrote:
>>
>> To Whom It May Concern,
>>
>>
>> I work for a rail operator in NSW Australia and we are currently 
>> exploring the idea of importing some of our corporate rail, signal 
>> and track speed GIS data to open rail map that would cover the 
>> greater Sydney region.
>>
>>
>> At this exploratory stage, I was wondering if you could provide us 
>> with details about the steps required to import this data and sample 
>> data schema so we can match our data to this.
>>
>>
>> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>>
>>
>> Kind regards,
>>
>>
>> Patricia
>>
>>
>> Patricia Byrne
>>
>> Geospatial Officer
>>
>>
>>

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