[talk-au] Bribie Island OpenStreetMap Mapping Party coming up soon! (Sat 17 July)
Hi everyone, OSM mapping party propaganda follows. Please pass onto anyone you think might be interested. - David Calling all map-lovers, amateur cartographers, surveyors and cartophiles! Local OpenStreetMappers are having a mapping party soon, and we want your help. When: Saturday 17th July 2010 Agenda: 09:00 - 09:30BBQ Breakfast at Quota Park, Welsby Parade 09:30 - 13:00Mapping 13:00 - 14:00Lunch at Bribie Island Hotel, 29 Sylvan Beach Esplanade Details: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Bribie_Island_Mapping_Party_July_2010 OpenStreetMap is a collaboratively built free map of the world, with simple wiki-like editing; think ‘Wikipedia’, but for maps. The result is highly detailed digital maps, created and edited by local communities, that are free to reproduce without the normal commercial restrictions. It's a fun project to get involved with; you'll discover how maps are made and uncover the geographical secrets of your neighbourhood. Volunteers from all around Brisbane have already begun mapping the roads, footpaths and cycleways across the city, but now we need your help to improve our map by adding street details and amenities such as restaurants, parks, playgrounds and shops. For July, we will be mapping Bribie Island. After beginning with a delicious BBQ breakfast at Quota Park, we will split up and spread out over Bribie Island to collect information for inclusion in OpenStreetMap. You are welcome to map however and wherever you want, but here are a few suggestions for things that other mappers like to collect: * Missing streets, footpaths and cycleways * Missing street names * Missing street facilities (traffic lights, pedestrian crossings, speed bumps, etc.) * Missing reserves, parks, schools and child-care centres * Missing amenities (water fountains, toilets, playgrounds, seats, shelters, etc.) * Details of shops/restaurants/pubs However, if you aren't sure what you can do, we'll be happy to provide ideas and help get you started. If you have a GPS device, including a GPS-enabled phone, bring it along, but you don’t need anything special to map - just a pen and paper will do. Blank maps for note-taking can easily be made available if prior notice is provided. After spending a couple of hours surveying we will rejoin at the Bribie Island Hotel at 13:00 for lunch and to debrief. If you have a laptop, bring it along and we'll show you how easy it is to use OpenStreetMap on your own computer. Internet access will be made available through shared mobile broadband (or bring your own). If you can’t or don’t feel like helping in the physical survey, or you just want to be social, please feel free to turn up at the Bribie Island Hotel anyway. We’ll be there between 13:00 and 14:00 and we’ll be happy to introduce you to OpenStreetMap, and maybe get you set up to map your local area. If you can come, please let David Dean know by Wednesday the 14th of June, so we can have some idea of how will be turning up on the day. Contact David Dean on 0407 151 912 to RSVP or for more information. (please let me know if you don't want these emails in future) -- David Dean Post-Doctoral Fellow, RP-SAIVT, QUT (me) http://www.davidbdean.com (saivt) http://www.bee.qut.edu.au/projects/saivt/ (post) Room S1101, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Australia 4001 (p) +61 7 3138 1414 (m) 0407 151 912 (CRICOS) 00213J ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Queensland parks, forests and conservation areas
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, John Smith wrote: State forests aren't the same thing as national parks, state forests are government operated logging areas... not necessarily. In NSW it was that state forests had really loose rules about human recreation and national parks had very heavy handed rules so that you could happily picnic and whatever in the state forest everywhere but now the NSW Sparks and Wildfires has taken over the State Forest reserves so now expect fishing to be banned on the river reserves and all fun taken out of life. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Queensland parks, forests and conservation areas
Hi, I would tag the forests that aren't national parks as landuse=forest and remove the boundary key. Unless they are protected areas where I would use the boundary=protected_area and the protect_id key. You could also use boundary=nature_reserve or boundary=landscape_reserve if it fits into either of these categorys. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Kosmos_protected_area_rendering#Protected _Areas http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary=protected_area Forests Landuse=forest National Parks boundary=national_park leisure=nature_reserve Protected Areas boundary=protected_area protect_id= I would also remove the non standard key names like derm.qld.gov.au:GLR_NUMBER and FEAT_NAME Markus _ From: talk-au-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-au-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of James Livingston Sent: Monday, 28 June 2010 9:54 AM To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: [talk-au] Queensland parks, forests and conservation areas Hi all, I've been looking at http://data.australia.gov.au/127, which contains all the national parks, state forest, conservation areas and so on in Queensland. If no-one else had been doing anything with this, I'd been thinking about adding it to OSM. Current practice seems to be tagging them all as boundary=national_park, regardless of whether they're National Parks or other things like State Forests. Would adding national_park=state_forest and similar to the tags be a good idea? There's also a bunch of things like resource reserves and timber reserves inside the parks, any good suggestions about how to tag those? This would obviously be a manual piece-by-piece upload, since it would need merging with existing data there's interesting things like river/road names we can pull out (because it has the road reserves marked). A converted file with most of the attributes cleaned up is at http://www.sunsetutopia.com/qld_parks.osm.bz2 if anyone wants to look, but it still needs a lot of merging of polygons and the like -- James No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.830 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2967 - Release Date: 06/28/10 04:05:00 ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Queensland parks, forests and conservation areas
On 28/06/2010, at 8:16 PM, Markus wrote: Forests Landuse=forest National Parks boundary=national_park leisure=nature_reserve Sounds good. Protected Areas boundary=protected_area protect_id= Ah, the original data had IUCN codes, so I can put these back in as protect_id 1-6. I would also remove the non standard key names like derm.qld.gov.au:GLR_NUMBER and FEAT_NAME FEAT_NAME definitely won't go into OSM - however it's useful for me because it contains the road name for some of the ROAD polygons :) Should I leave the Ecolink and/or GLR Number tags in as a reference which identifies the area, so we can match with any future updates? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Queensland parks, forests and conservation areas
Hi, Sound good to me to leave the GLR number and Ecolink if you put it with a standard osm key. Markus. -Original Message- From: talk-au-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-au-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of James Livingston Sent: Monday, 28 June 2010 10:31 PM To: OSM Australian Talk List Subject: Re: [talk-au] Queensland parks, forests and conservation areas On 28/06/2010, at 8:16 PM, Markus wrote: Forests Landuse=forest National Parks boundary=national_park leisure=nature_reserve Sounds good. Protected Areas boundary=protected_area protect_id= Ah, the original data had IUCN codes, so I can put these back in as protect_id 1-6. I would also remove the non standard key names like derm.qld.gov.au:GLR_NUMBER and FEAT_NAME FEAT_NAME definitely won't go into OSM - however it's useful for me because it contains the road name for some of the ROAD polygons :) Should I leave the Ecolink and/or GLR Number tags in as a reference which identifies the area, so we can match with any future updates? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 9.0.830 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2967 - Release Date: 06/28/10 04:05:00 ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
