hi all, my name's robin, i'm involved with mapping in new zealand. we have been given access and permission to import data from LINZ (land information new zealand), who manage land parcel data in nz. the information we have from them is huge, and is not limited to land parcels. there are 150+ layers, including roads.
i am posting here to ensure a proper consultative process is carried out, as outlined on the imports page. we have already engaged the community in new zealand, and made assurances that no existing data will be overwritten/deleted/modified, without discussing with the community first. the community is mainly centred around the nzopengis list on google groups, with personal relationships between other mappers. this is the first mass import many of us in nz have carried out, so we're not entirely sure of the process from here. LINZ have given osm permission to import the data under either CC-BY-SA 2.0 or ODBL - a number of mappers have been in close contact with this and other departments, including via koordinates.com (a local GIS company, who's employees are also members of the osm community) who are also carrying out the technical side of things. koordinates have assigned a body to work on the import project, he is currently developing a web application through which we can: a) convert the data to .osm format, including tag translation, the details of which the community has been involved in b) import the data c) allow mappers to allocate a portion of the map to themselves, so it can be merged at all steps, koordinates are keeping the rest of the community up to date on progress so, we assume we have missed something, and i am here to ask for assistance. is there anything we need to cover? progress so far is detailed here: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/LINZ -- robin http://fu.ac.nz - Auckland's Free University _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
