Re: [Imports] Mass fixing street names in Queensland Australia

2014-03-20 Thread Jason Ward
Hi Benjamin, That is a Natural resources and mines dataset and that permission doesn't look to be enough for it to be used in OSM. A whole-of-government permission request is intended to be sought from the QLD Govt CIO for the open data portal. The last update to the talk-au thread on this reque

Re: [Imports] Mass fixing street names in Queensland Australia

2014-03-20 Thread Benjamin Wragg
Hi Jason, I looked into the TMR datasets but all the datasets I could found only contained the major state owned roads e.g http://data.qld.gov.au/dataset/state-controlled-roads-queensland not local roads. I noticed on an OSM wiki that permission had been acquired from TMR but not from other g

Re: [Imports] Mass fixing street names in Queensland Australia

2014-03-20 Thread Jason Ward
Hi Benjamin, I have sourced Transport and Main Roads permission [1] so if the dataset has been sourced from that organisation through the data.qld.gov.au portal then your have explicit permission to use it. If it has been sourced directly from the tmr site you might wish to re-source it from the

Re: [Imports] Mass fixing street names in Queensland Australia

2014-03-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
In sa we are rendering images via qgis and manually mass updating - @Alex On 19/03/2014 11:11 PM, "Serge Wroclawski" wrote: > Benjamin, > > Doing mass tagging or mass renaming is quite a difficult process in > OSM. I did a more modest mass tagging change last year, renaming > millions of road nam

Re: [Imports] Mass fixing street names in Queensland Australia

2014-03-19 Thread Serge Wroclawski
Benjamin, Doing mass tagging or mass renaming is quite a difficult process in OSM. I did a more modest mass tagging change last year, renaming millions of road names in the US from "Rd" to "Road", and that process took almost six months of discussion and debate before it was approved, and what was

Re: [Imports] Mass fixing street names in Queensland Australia

2014-03-19 Thread Pieren
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Benjamin Wragg wrote: > I'd like to investigate a process to mass update missing street names in > Queensland Australia. I recently tried to use Openstreetmap in the northern > part of Queensland around the city of Cairns and found a terrible lack of > street nam

[Imports] Mass fixing street names in Queensland Australia

2014-03-19 Thread Benjamin Wragg
Hi, I just posted the following post on http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=406940 It was suggested that I post it here to get your thoughts. Regards, Benjamin Hi List, I'd like to investigate a process to mass update missing street names in Queensland Australia. I recently t