Recently David Dean asked for some data and he was given access to it with a favourable license (cc-by).
This dataset only covers Qld Govt funded roads, this doesn't include local government roads. While there was additional information attached to the data, it was mostly internal references so this was removed, I also simplified all the ways as there was an excessive number of points, it appeared that raw GPS data had been used in some/many places without any kind of simplification applied. I don't know if it was due to the conversion processing or not, but many of the roads don't interconnect properly. Most roads are in segments as various different tags were applied to the sections, think like last survey dates. With that all said, the name/vector data seems very useful for both ways not already in OSM and for fixing up Landsat derived data, the vector data probably isn't that useful for places where Nearmap have coverage. For those interested in this data in OSM format, you can download it from here: http://map-data.bigtincan.com/data/sc_roads_qld.osm.bz2 It's approx 1.5M and if you enable the slippymap plugin with mapnik background image you can use it to see which roads are missing and which just need a few tweaks here and there. I've posted a brief page here about permission: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australia/Queensland/Department_of_Transport_and_Main_Roads And another here about the data itself: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australia/Queensland/Department_of_Transport_and_Main_Roads/Import _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
