Despite the danger of imports turnimg OSM into a dumping ground of substandard out-of-date data, there is (In Australia's case) some very good data that could be imported.
Someone told me that currently, due to the recent disasters (fire and flood), mapping for disaster preparedness and response is HUGE in the minds of the governments involved.They also felt that anyone making any half decent case for release of ANY government data, under any licence whatsoever would almost certainly be successful. There is one set of data that I believe is high quality, up-to-date, extremely compatable with OSM aims, and is also very hard to be mapped by the public.This import may well already be in the planning but when I get back to Australia I will make sure we get it rolling. Other data that we/I could look at trying to get might be 1) Fire hydrants of the ACT (This one could be a bit difficult apparently). 2) pd licenced postcode/administrative boundaries. Anyone have any wishlists for (useful) data???
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