[talk-au] Victorian Vicmap Address Import Proposal

[Andrew Harvey]

I'm working with the National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) on a proposal to import Vicmap addresses for Victoria into OSM. For context, here is the statement from the NHVR.

 

    The NHVR is making a substantial investment in the creation of a spatially based mapping tool to improve the efficiency and safety standards of the Heavy vehicle industry within Australia. As the regulator, we are particularly aware that not all heavy vehicles are suitable for all roads, and wish to ensure that heavy vehicles are aligned to the most appropriate roads wherever possible. To support the principals of open data the NHVR has made a decision to utilise OpenStreetMap as its base layer map. As such, we want to ensure that OSM is populated with the most accurate and rich data possible. Whilst NHVR’s needs are primarily to utilise pickup and delivery, depots and farms addresses used by the heavy vehicle industry, we are proposing a mass import that looks to populate both commercial and residential addresses to support the much more diverse use cases of the wider community, as well as our own.

 

    We are excited to work with the open street map community and we look forward to any and all feedback sourced from this great community.

 

While my work on this is supported by the NHVR, the community ultimately has the say on if this import happens, and how.

 

I've been preparing code and documentation on what I'm proposing for a potential import at https://gitlab.com/alantgeo/vicmap2osm/, it's still a work in progress at this stage, it will continue to evolved based on feedback here and as I continue to work on it. I'm yet to put together a formal import plan on the OSM wiki, as I wanted to get community feedback first.

 

I'm keen to hear any feedback for this potential import, or answer any questions.



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Andrew Harvey

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