Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-06 Thread cleary
I'll look there. Thanks. On Sun, Oct 7, 2018, at 12:31 PM, Warin wrote: > On 07/10/18 11:22, cleary wrote: > > > > In regard to admin boundaries sharing the coastline, I think that would > > also be incorrect but I am less confident of my view on this. > > > > I did update some administrative

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-06 Thread Warin
PS While on coast lines ... computer model of the Kimberly coastline over a few thousand years.. looks like it is breathing. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-10-07/wa-coastline-transformed-by-sea-levels-over-thousands-of-years/10338500 On 07/10/18 11:22, cleary wrote: In regard to admin

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-06 Thread Warin
On 07/10/18 11:22, cleary wrote: In regard to admin boundaries sharing the coastline, I think that would also be incorrect but I am less confident of my view on this. I did update some administrative boundaries in South Australia using the SA Government Data and those boundaries did not

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-06 Thread cleary
In regard to admin boundaries sharing the coastline, I think that would also be incorrect but I am less confident of my view on this. I did update some administrative boundaries in South Australia using the SA Government Data and those boundaries did not coincide with the coastline (see the

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-06 Thread Warin
On 06/10/18 21:34, Andrew Harvey wrote: Thanks for raising that. I'd seen some boundaries in WA defined in legislation as, follow this road, then that road etc. but I think that was for school zones. So the LGA and Suburb/Localities are defined by the cadastral plans then? I hear the points and

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-06 Thread Andrew Harvey
Thanks for raising that. I'd seen some boundaries in WA defined in legislation as, follow this road, then that road etc. but I think that was for school zones. So the LGA and Suburb/Localities are defined by the cadastral plans then? I hear the points and see there is consensus to not reuse

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-06 Thread Warin
On 06/10/18 20:52, cleary wrote: In regard to administrative boundaries being attached to other features such as waterways and roads, I think it is a trade-off between accuracy and convenience. +1. If the admin boundaries use other features as there boundaries then it is the other feature

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-06 Thread cleary
In regard to administrative boundaries being attached to other features such as waterways and roads, I think it is a trade-off between accuracy and convenience. I am most familiar with NSW. Boundaries are not "defined" by words but rather by surveyors' charts. The surveyors may often have

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-06 Thread Joel H.
>Do you have examples of the overlapping ways? It looks pretty okay around Brisbane to me. Here's an a mesh of the LGA's in GeoJSON which you can import into JOSM with enough memory. https://tianjara.net/data/LGA_mesh.geojson.xz Just import the shapefile into JOSM and use the validation. The

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-06 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 at 15:57, Joel H. wrote: > > OK everyone I am currently editing the LGA shapefiles for QLD so no one > should attempt as to not create conflicts (although I'm not currently working > on the suburbs file). Don't worry, no one should actually be doing any importing until we

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-06 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 at 11:43, cleary wrote: > A month ago, we celebrated the news that OSM now has approval to use the PSMA > Administrative Boundaries and there was some discussion, including the need > for a proper import process. I am willing to start adding some boundaries in > areas with