Re: [talk-au] Introducing myself and I have a question too

2012-08-08 Thread Ian Sergeant
Hi Matthew, On 8 August 2012 15:53, Matthew Landauer matt...@openaustralia.org wrote: I see that 2011 LGA boundary data is available on data.gov.au: http://data.gov.au/dataset/local-government-area-asgc-ed-2011/ and according to this post

Re: [talk-au] Introducing myself and I have a question too

2012-08-08 Thread Matthew Landauer
Hi Ian, I want to see the LGA data in OSM because that will make it easy to get the data into the mapit service that I mentioned and we want to use mapit for the OpenAustralia Foundation. As for why not import the data directly into mapit? Well, we could of course but that would limit the

Re: [talk-au] Introducing myself and I have a question too

2012-08-08 Thread Alex Sims
On 8/08/2012 3:23 PM, Matthew Landauer wrote: Recently, mySociety, a UK based charity and one the worlds pioneers in online digital democracy released a web service called mapit: http://global.mapit.mysociety.org/ What it does is slurp administrative boundary data from OSM and present and

Re: [talk-au] Introducing myself and I have a question too

2012-08-08 Thread mick
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 16:47:46 +1000 Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Matthew, On 8 August 2012 15:53, Matthew Landauer matt...@openaustralia.org wrote: I see that 2011 LGA boundary data is available on data.gov.au:

Re: [talk-au] Introducing myself and I have a question too

2012-08-08 Thread Ian Sergeant
On 8 August 2012 17:03, Matthew Landauer matt...@openaustralia.org wrote: As far as I understand the LGA boundaries totally fit within what OSM should provide, doesn't it? Well, there is a school of thought that says that data that is fully external to OSM, and is updated on a fairly regular