Re: [talk-au] New CC-BY datasets due Monday 28 September on Government 2.0 Taskforce website

The Telopea Park references, outside of parentheses, would appear to be grid points expressed in a Transverse Mercator projection of the Australian National Spheroid ie very old (yards not metres I suspect) and not much use unless you know the map and central meridian. The numbers in

Re: [talk-au] New CC-BY datasets due Monday 28 September on Government 2.0 Taskforce website

Here is some info on the ACT gridThe ACT grid is a Transverse Mercator map projection that uses the longitude of Mt Stromlo Trig Station as its central meridian. It is based on the Australian Geodetic Datum 66 (AGD66), which is modified to take advantage of the ACT’s limited east-west dimension

Re: [talk-au] New CC-BY datasets due Monday 28 September on Government 2.0 Taskforce website

yep, but multiplied by 211,000odd and 600,000 odd it would add up - IF I've got this right!!! From: John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com To: Dan O',Hara detect...@yahoo.com.au Cc: Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxi...@gmail.com; OSM Australian Talk List

Re: [talk-au] More on the survey tag

Hi all I'm still a relative newcomer to OSM (and am still in wonder at the complexity and enormity of the task!) and have found this discussion quite interesting. I only use Potlatch as I was advised it was simple, and for beginners, and it loaded by default in the edit screen. I use an