[talk-au] Geoscience Australia Gazetteer 2010
Not sure if others have posted about this before but I just discovered the Geoscience Australia Gazetteer 2010 release under CC-BY 3.0. (Well actually I think it is as that is what the PDF front page says in the download. It also says copyright resides with each contributing agency so I don't know how to interpret that. That should be resolved before an use of this data in FOSM.) http://www.ga.gov.au/meta/ANZCW0703014255.html I've also converted it to the OSM XML format http://tianjara.net/data/osm/imports/Gazetteer2010.tar.gz using this script https://gist.github.com/1876009 It contains a lot of names. Useful names. It seems like the accuracy is very rough though (lots of points clumped together). This is directed to osm-fork, but I've CC'ed talk-au as it may be of interest to you too. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] AGRI: 2.5m CC-BY Australian Satellite Imagery
On 20 February 2012 21:58, Andrew Harvey wrote: > https://www.ga.gov.au/products/servlet/controller?event=GEOCAT_DETAILS&catno=72657 > > Not sure if anyone would find this useful for non-nearmaped areas. Comes > with a $250 price tag (but CC-BY licensed) and a fair bit of work to get > it usable in JOSM, and its only black and white I believe. Practically > not really useful I think, but the geogeek inside me still wants to > check it out... > I am happy to help + host. I currently have a pet project helping with aerial imagery + out of copyright maps. Examples (all work in progress): * Surrey England: http://faffy.openstreetmap.org/?zoom=11&lat=51.26407&lon=-0.43075&layers=0B00 * Out of Copyright UK: http://faffy.openstreetmap.org/?zoom=7&lat=53.29355&lon=-2.49618&layers=00B0 * South Africa Topographic: http://grant.dev.openstreetmap.org/cdsm-tiles-test/ (early attempt, pre-rendered) My current setup uses MapServer and TileCache. Re-projection and tiling is on-demand. The imagery is a fair bit of storage, but I'm sure I could work something out. Regards Grant ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] AGRI: 2.5m CC-BY Australian Satellite Imagery
https://www.ga.gov.au/products/servlet/controller?event=GEOCAT_DETAILS&catno=72657 Not sure if anyone would find this useful for non-nearmaped areas. Comes with a $250 price tag (but CC-BY licensed) and a fair bit of work to get it usable in JOSM, and its only black and white I believe. Practically not really useful I think, but the geogeek inside me still wants to check it out... (Thanks to http://all-things-spatial.blogspot.com/2012/02/continental-reference-image.html for the link) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] sydney edit natural=bay
On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 7:26 PM, Ian Sergeant wrote: > I see the author's point, that if you go up and down the coast, it is hard > to put a hard and fast rule on what is considered a bay, and what isn't. > > I also see your point, though, that most people wouldn't consider Port > Jackson and Pittwater as bays, and I don't think we do anybody any favours > by going for technical consistency at the expense of what is commonly > understood. > > Is this distinction really significant in any way? Does anything really > distinguish between water and bays? It isn't easy to classify them, but I do think that it would be beneficial to have most if not all of these http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_of_water represented somehow. Even if that is natural=water, water=foobar I don't think it is far to compare it to "water" as that isn't really a classification as per the wikipedia list. But also some can be inferred. Eg. if the water is bordered by a beach and it curves round it is probably a bay. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
