[talk-au] Adoption of OSM geometry as state mapping base

[Andrew Davidson]

On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 11:41 AM rob potter <pots253 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I am representing the state transport department Department of Transport and Planning (Victoria, Australia) - OpenStreetMap Wiki and we are looking to consume the OSM road & rail networks for our operations.

Sounds interesting. Another OSM policy that you'll need to know about
is https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Organised_Editing_Guidelines

Looking down the list of things that you are planning on doing I note
that one of the items on the list is "Tram and Bus stops". It would be
really helpful if you could get PTV to sign the required waiver
(https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Licence/Waiver_and_Permission_Templates)
to let us use the data in OSM. We've got an active group of mappers in
Vic that want to do public transport mapping but are being held back
by the fact that we've been trying to get permission since 2019 to use
the data.