Steve Coast <st...@asklater.com> wrote: > Perhaps we're talking at cross purposes because most of the community I'm > familiar with, which is all of the EU and the US, consider government data a > nice starting point but mappers on the ground as generally much better. Is the > perception in Australia that you should just do whatever the government says > you should do? Or that OSM should just be a host for government data?
Mappers on the ground are much better, but government data is *already collected*. It also has stuff that's difficult or impossible to collect on the ground (or water), like marine park and national park boundaries. Also, Australia is incredibly remote. When the US talk about remote locations and low populated areas, we've got 'em beat. > So they're only a potential source, things have not been imported? Some has, but it's not compatible with ODbL and will probably be deleted. I don't think anything has been imported for a while because of that. -- Sam Couter | mailto:s...@couter.id.au OpenPGP fingerprint: A46B 9BB5 3148 7BEA 1F05 5BD5 8530 03AE DE89 C75C
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