Re: [talk-au] City of Melbourne data imports

2014-09-04 Thread Nick Hocking
Regarding the Address data potential import. The Vic Map data is already available for import and it contains the address info for all of Victoria. (as well as tons of roads missing from OSM) I think this would be the best source of address data to import.

Re: [talk-au] City of Melbourne data imports

2014-08-20 Thread Leon Kernan
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Daniel O'Connor daniel.ocon...@gmail.com wrote: If they have the data, building footprints are also pretty neat. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Geelong_Building_Import is one I did a few months ago - some of the geospatial team there are dead keen on open

Re: [talk-au] City of Melbourne data imports

2014-08-20 Thread Simon Poole
Am 20.08.2014 11:38, schrieb Leon Kernan: Yes, this would be great. For people who've never seen it, check out Geelong on http://demo.f4map.com and you can see how big building data is going to be. I believe some building imports are going to be essential at the start. It's just

[talk-au] City of Melbourne data imports

2014-08-19 Thread Steve Bennett
Hi guys, I'm working with the City of Melbourne on some open data projects. www.theage.com.au/it-pro/government-it/an-open-data-vision-20140818-105d5n.html One thing we could do is import some of their data into OSM. For example: - water fountains - addresses - businesses - trees I haven't

Re: [talk-au] City of Melbourne data imports

2014-08-19 Thread Daniel Sobey
Hi Steve, There is a lot of open data that could potentially be used from data.gov and state portals. http://www.data.gov.au/ https://www.data.vic.gov.au/ http://data.sa.gov.au/ Much of this was released for the govhack competition last month. No idea about the process of importing data but try

Re: [talk-au] City of Melbourne data imports

2014-08-19 Thread Paul Norman
On 8/19/2014 3:42 PM, Daniel Sobey wrote: Hi Steve, There is a lot of open data that could potentially be used from data.gov http://data.gov and state portals. http://www.data.gov.au/ https://www.data.vic.gov.au/ http://data.sa.gov.au/ Much of this was released for the govhack competition

Re: [talk-au] City of Melbourne data imports

2014-08-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
One thing we could do is import some of their data into OSM. For example: - addresses Addresses may be one of the more useful data sets, and you might want to look at things like openaddresses.io as well - though I did open up a pull request for VicMap data. A similar import is

Re: [talk-au] City of Melbourne data imports

2014-08-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Oh, and I nearly forgot: one of the issues with data is bitrot - you'll want to think about not only the initial data import, but how best to keep it up to date. I've found subscribing to a feed of data from planningalerts.org.au is a good indicator for when housing or addresses in my area are