The 5,330 km National Trail known as the "Australian Bicentennial National Trail (BNT)", is only partially mapped in OSM.
Refs: OSM existing Route Relation: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/176684 There is a website regarding the trail here http://www.nationaltrail.com.au/ I suppose that the reason it's not on OSM is because the guidebooks with the route have to be purchased, are copyrighted, and in some cases out of print or very hard to find. The Queensland government has free vector data of the Qld section of the route under a seemingly permissive licence (it's the "DERM_SHORT_OPEN"). I wondered if anyone had heard of this licene before and whether it considered to be OSM compatible, and this route relation could then be updated using this file? Getting the data: ------------------------ 1) Go to http://dds.information.qld.gov.au/dds/ 2) in section 2 enter search term "National Trail" 3) Result should be "Bicentennial National Trail in Queensland" datset 4) Download Dataset: Metadata: --------------------------- Text Bicentennial National Trail in Queensland Date: 18-03-2010 (revision) Maintenance and update frequency: not planned Abstract: The Bicentennial National Trail is the longest marked, non-motorised, self-reliant multi-use trekking route in the world, stretching an extraordinary 5,330 kilometres from Cooktown in tropical North Queensland, to Healesville in Victoria. Following the inspiration of the legendary bushman R. M. Williams, the Trail follows the historic coach and stock routes, old pack horse trails, and country roads. Wherever possible along its great length the Trail has been designed to be a "living history" of our country, following the routes of our early pioneers and highlighting historic sites and artifacts along the way. The trail has been mapped within Queensland by the Queensland Government for the National Trail Organisation circa 1987. See www.nationaltrail.com.au for more information. The original maps within Queensland were compiled and supplied by the Department of Lands, Queensland Government. These maps were digitised and have been realigned to agree with the digital cadastral database. Owner: Department of Environment and Resource Management Data / Resource Constraints: Copyright: (C) The State of Queensland (Department of Environment and Resource Management) 2010 Licence: DERM_SHORT_OPEN Lineage: This dataset was digitised from Department of Lands 1:100000 cadastral paper maps used to create the maps in the National Trail guidebooks. The original maps in the National Trail guidebooks within Queensland were compiled and supplied by the Department of Lands, Queensland Government in 1987 for the publication in 1988 (first edition) and with some revisions in 1992 (second edition). Data Quality: Positional accuracy: If captured from 1:100000 Provisional Cadastral Maps positional accuracy +- 250 metres and from 1:100000 Standard Cadastral Maps positional accuracy +- 55 metres. Chris -- ---- cbar...@pobox.com _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au