I have added the remainder of the Goobang NP boundaries by hand and am well and truly moused out for now. In the longer term adding directly from the gov database is preferable and likely allows updates to boundaries occasionally more easily later. I see from your links that getting this type of info into OSM is not trivial.
> On 24 Dec 2015, at 8:01 AM, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harv...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 23 December 2015 at 22:33, Nev Wedding <nwas...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have been using the LPI NSW Administrative Boundaries NPWS Reserve to >> enter the boundaries of each section of the Goobang National Park as I was >> recently there and recorded a few gps tracks as well. >> It seems to me that I am probably wasting my efforts just following around >> the rest of the boundary and marking it out with mouse-clicks and the bottom >> section of the park, which I am still to do, is a big effort. >> Is someone likely to import the database data for each park on which the >> layer is based…or should I continue with the mouse. >> Once the boundary is done I will leave others to add other data from the >> other layers from LPI who are more familiar with the area. >> thanks > > This is a tough one. On one hand there are immediate benefits of > getting these park boundaries into OSM, which in theory you can do now > in the way you describe. On the other hand actually importing the data > would be easier and better, but not likely to happen just yet. > > I've made some progress in getting a mapping for CAPAD data (which > groups together protected bounderies from all states) to OSM at > https://github.com/andrewharvey/capad2osm (sample data at > http://tianjara.net/data/osm/imports/capad.osm.xz) > > I haven't even started on the licensing issue. > > Although not a solution, for other projects based on OSM, I've > actually done post-processing to remove all OSM parks and replace them > with the CAPAD government data. > > The data specifically for NSW is potentially available but can't find > any specific data download URLs for it: > https://sdi.nsw.gov.au/sdi.nsw.gov.au/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7B282174F3-6686-4841-8682-840D952DA5B0%7D > https://sdi.nsw.gov.au/sdi.nsw.gov.au/catalog/search/resource/details.page?uuid=%7BF744AA2D-793B-4CF3-BEDE-41A96D9975FA%7D _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
