[talk-au] What are the best practices for mass updating cycle paths?

Ian Sergeant inas66+osm at gmail.com
Tue Feb 7 00:24:57 UTC 2023


I agree with Ben, and I'd be very surprised if the OSM map of the city
cycleways wasn't far more accurate than that produced by CoS.  Usually new
facilities are updated within days.

Ian.

On Tue, 7 Feb 2023 at 10:52, Ben Kelley <ben.kelley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Practically, using this data would be difficult I think.
>
> Partly because there is a lot of stuff already mapped. The other problem
> is that I have found Councils' web sites are a bit optimistic about how
> much of their planned cycling infrastructure actually exists. It's hard
> to know what is "on the ground" from their data sets.
>
>   - Ben.
>
>
> On 7/2/2023 10:40 am, forster at ozonline.com.au wrote:
> > Hi
> > Looking further City of Sydney Data Hub is licenced CC By 4.0 but OSM
> > has been waiting on the waiver since 2020 "CC BY 4.0 - waiver sent
> > 01/12/2020, "considering your request" on 03/12/2020"
> >
> > The licence for the cycle network data links to 2 logos, a CC by 4.0
> > logo and a "Open Data" logo which I can only find 2 other occurrences
> > of in the net and no definitions.
> >
> > Tony
> >
> >> Hi
> >> First check that its listed at
> >> https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Data_Sources
> >> If not ykou probably need to get them to sign a release
> >> Tony
> >>
> >>> Hi all,
> >>>
> >>> I have been looking into cycle paths data in OSM and found that Sydney
> >>> doesn't seem to have this dataset:
> >>>
> https://data.cityofsydney.nsw.gov.au/datasets/cityofsydney::cycle-network/explore
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> This data is focused on the city centre. Are there any
> >>> recommendations on
> >>> how I should get about this, or if there are any best practices or
> >>> guidance
> >>> when uploading datasets from official sources?
> >>>
> >>
>
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