I've done a blog post about how I used the landuse data tied to the Mesh
Blocks to load as an underlay in an OSM editor (JOSM).
http://andrewharvey4.wordpress.com/2011/03/17/using-abs-asgs-data-in-openstreetmap/
The data is a bit coarse in places but I think when combined with NearMap
tracing it
On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 15:12 +1100, {withheld} wrote:
However I still hold the community should accept the offer and be
grateful. Carping about internal politics just looks bad. And whiny. And
doesn't encourage anybody else ever offering similar largesse ever again.
Well, to be fair, the
On 24 February 2011 10:52, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
1) OSM's core purpose is as a street map
This hasn't been the case for quite some time.
Not to mention that the previous ABS data has been very useful in
regional areas for plotting physical features, like roads, that
couldn't
On 24/02/11 12:50, John Smith wrote:
On 24 February 2011 10:52, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote:
1) OSM's core purpose is as a street map
This hasn't been the case for quite some time.
Not to mention that the previous ABS data has been very useful in
regional areas for plotting
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 2:33 PM, {withheld}
pheasant.cou...@gmail.com For expletive elided's sake, with due
respect to Andrew Harvey and
Steve Bennett, shouldn't the community be a whole lot better off
expressing appropriate gratitude to Marcus Blake for offering this data
and then pissing off
On 24/02/11 14:46, Ian Sergeant wrote:
On 24 February 2011 14:33, {withheld} pheasant.cou...@gmail.com
mailto:pheasant.cou...@gmail.com wrote:
For expletive elided's sake, with due respect to Andrew Harvey and
Steve Bennett, shouldn't the community be a whole lot better off
To the Australian OSM community,
The Australian Bureau of Statistics has recent published the first part of
a new statistical geography, the Australia Statistical Geography Standard
or ASGS for short. The boundaries are based on a new basic spatial unit
called a mesh block which have been
Marcus Blake marcus.bl...@abs.gov.au wrote Wed, 23 February, 2011 11:31:50:
From the ABS point of view the principle reason for doing this is that an the
OSM database would hold a copy of the official version of the boundaries and
that this point of truth would be available for all OSM users
Hi Marcus
Unfortunately OSM has recently forced a change to it's licence agreement to
a version where attribution is not required on any copies that are made of
OSM data,
probably to appease Microsoft and Bing maps who will then be free to charge
for these maps, with no attribution at all.
On 23 February 2011 11:35, Simon Biber simonbi...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
of OSM is released under CC-BY-SA which is an attribution license compatible
with CC-BY. The attribution includes a link to a list of data providers and
contributors on www.openstreetmap.org in which ABS is listed.
As of
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 10:38 +0800, Andrew Laughton wrote:
Hi Marcus
Unfortunately OSM has recently forced a change to it's licence
agreement to a version where attribution is not required on any copies
that are made of OSM data, probably to appease Microsoft and Bing maps
who will then be
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