Re: [talk-au] Railway Station Naming Dispute

2011-02-03 Thread Alex Lum
I had a look at the Vicnames database which is about as official as it gets regarding registered geographic names in Victoria. According to Vicnames both stations were registered on 2 May 1966 as the one-word versions: Ferntree Gully and Upper Ferntree Gully. While I am loath to dispute the acc

[talk-au] Broadcast tower locations

2010-05-25 Thread Alex Lum
Should these keys be "attribution" instead of "attributation"? Alex. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] vandalism?

2010-05-17 Thread Alex Lum
Someone had placed a POI in north western Tasmania for the Hampshire district, but with k=place,v=country, so it was showing up as a country label. I changed it to a hamlet for now. > Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 11:40:01 +1000 > From: Liz > Subject: [talk-au] vandalism? > To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] South Australia NPWSA Parks

2010-03-14 Thread Alex Lum
The SA national park boundaries (and assets) were released under a CC-BY licence here: http://data.australia.gov.au/589 May be better to use that file rather than the one from http://www.naturemaps.sa.gov.au/ as they may be different data and the licence is OK on the Data Australia one. _

[talk-au] Where do national/state park boundaries come from?

2010-03-11 Thread Alex Lum
National and state park boundaries for Victoria (from the Department of Sustainability and Environment's Vicmap Lite package) were released under a CC - Attribution 2.5 Australia licence earlier this year. You can download the polygon data as a KMZ file here: http://www.data.vic.gov.au/raw_data/vi

[talk-au] Bus, tram and train stop data license change

2010-03-03 Thread Alex Lum
Very disappointing... I was browsing the http://data.vic.gov.au website yesterday and noticed that Metlink and the Department of Transport had released two datasets: the TransNET database of routes, stops and timetables, and a file of bus, tram and train stops. The TransNET file was under the DoT'

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 30, Issue 1

2009-11-30 Thread Alex Lum
I wondered this myself, and I haven't got a definitive answer, but seeing the locality boundary data was derived from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, I spent some time on the ABS website to try and work it out. Under the Australian Standard Geographic Classification (AGCS), a locality can be