On 2010-09-22 4:17 PM, John Smith wrote:
On 22 September 2010 18:10, Sam Wilson<s...@archives.org.au> wrote:
(This project, by the way, if anyone's interested, is to assist power pole
assessors in Western Australia; people who travel thousands of kms a month
Are you planning to upload pole locations to OSM? The poles are of
interest to some, but I'm thinking the pole reference numbers to
lat/lon would be useful. Someone else expressed interest in emergency
phone reference numbers, so they could be used to more quickly locate
people, apparently private road ways don't need to supply this
information to government.
Ultimately, yes, but although I've got this data now (for all 3,340,068
of them), it's not allowed to be used. It's awfully wrong, too, in lots
of cases! So, it's forming the basis for pole locating, and then the
confirmed positions will come back, and hopefully be allowed to be used
in OSM. Even if the locations and reference numbers of the poles are
held back, the other stuff -- roads, tracks, fences, gates, etc. -- will
be fine to upload.
all over the state, driving all the back ways and small roads, and taking
note of fences, gates, power lines.
Do these people keep GPS tracks by any chance?
Yes! And they *used* to be accessible to me. Recently, however, we
moved to a different system, and I am still negotiating how they can be
used. I'm hoping to impress management with the pole locating stuff,
and then they'll see the value of helping make the map better and better.
- Sam.
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