Re: [talk-au] Strathpine Mapping Party is coming up soon (Sat 18th September)

2010-09-12 Thread David Dean
Hi everyone, The next Brisbane OSM Mapping Party is this weekend (Sat 18th). Hope to see you there. Details below. - David On 6 September 2010 22:29, David Dean wrote: > Hi again everyone, > > Less than two weeks until the next Brisbane OSM Mapping Party. Details > below. Please let me know if

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience Austrailia - international tagging standards

2010-09-12 Thread Sam Vekemans
Cool, thanks. It's alot of info to go through, so i stared this message, to get back to this list once i have the master documen complete (to the point where i no longer need to be the one to maintain it it, since it will be freely open to the public.) ... i would make the database available now, i

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience Austrailia - international tagging standards

2010-09-12 Thread Markus
Hi Sam, You might find this site interesting. Found it yesterday. I am interested in adding mine locations for Australia to osm using the data from the Geoscience Australian Atlas. http://www.infomine.com/maps/ Note not all data sources would be suitable for osm use. Regards, Markus_g -O

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience Austrailia - international tagging standards

2010-09-12 Thread Sam Vekemans
Thanks, The Aboriginal Lands data is an interesting dataset, because in Canada's CanVec data it's only available as points, but through a separate arm of The federal government, the polygon data is available throuh geobase, just as the National protected areas are available in a separate dataset ..

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience Austrailia - international tagging standards

2010-09-12 Thread Markus
Hi Sam, Here is a tagging scheme that may match one the themes that includes protected areas, such as for national-parks, water protection areas or indigenous areas or etc.: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dprotected_area Also here is a link to the map features page. http://wi