I've approached this from the angle of what we'd need to get the data to look like if importing as is into OSM. I couldn't find any tools which correctly ensure that boundary ways were shared via relations instead of duplicated so I wrote some new tools. The process I used is documented at https://github.com/andrewharvey/psma-admin-bdy2osm
The processed AUGUST 2018 LGA + Suburb/Locality OSM file is at https://tianjara.net/data/PSMA_Admin_Bdy.osm.pbf The file is quite big so you'll need enough memory to open it in JOSM. In JOSM you can open this directly with the PBF plugin otherwise any of the software at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/PBF/Software_Compliance can deflate it. I see the next steps are to: - discuss if this is the right format for upload or not, - how we'll manage that upload in terms of breaking it up into smaller pieces - if there is any re-using of existing ways or not - how to ensure we're retaining the existing LGA/Suburb data in OSM. This includes both relations and those mapped as points (as Joel touched on). Those mapped as points are likely suitable for either the label or admin_center members of the relation. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
