On 26/08/12 21:30, Brett Russell wrote: > > Hi > > As some might have noticed I am madly loading up off road data of > walking tracks and geographical features of Tasmania along with the > roads to get there. For some reason the redaction hit remote roads > rather hard but gradually rebuilding stuff and noticed the Herculean > efforts of others in that regards. > > Also I am rather active poster on a bushwalking forum with a few, if > rather too many strong opinions, with availability of mapping data > being one, but this can have good effect. A fellow forum member > turns out to be a GIS knowledgeable employee of Parks and Wildlife > Tasmanian and is happy to upload Parks database of information. The > issue he has is what is the best way. A bulk upload make sense for > him but as I have noticed that this can have issues. I am more than > happy to pitch in and do the hard yards or is it metres nowadays. > Make a pleasant change from drawing in lakes from Bing when I have > run out of tracks to upload.
It would be best if they could upload their data with a free license directly to their website http://www.parks.tas.gov.au/, or perhaps send/interact directly with the community on this list. > > Can the administrators please step forward so a can put him in touch. > He comes across as a person that wants to get the best information > out there, subject to the usual constraints imposed by the > "sensitive" nature of some data that Parks is unwilling to share to > avoid environmental damage to "protected" areas. It would be > wonderful if OSM Australia/Tasmania could have the same level of > detail as England. > > I have been ground truthing the data and using OSM Australia Garmin > download files (cycle maps being great for the zoom level of peaks > but poor on walking tracks zoom level as limited to maximum of 300 > metres) on my Garmin 62s. It is amazing in winter with a layer of > snow wandering tracks with remarkable accuracy that I have created > from the average of several traces. Friend was amazed when I said > "twenty metres" left and sure enough there was the marker. Ok, given > the GPS accuracy limitations I was a bit lucky but honestly I have > found the Garmin 62s pretty spot on as with Bing at the highest zoom > level. The worst difference I have found is about ten metres. More > than good enough for most mapping purposes but I am for some strange > reason driven to do better. I have notice when testing GPSs that > some are consistently 10 metres out for some strange reason with > Holux being the main one. > > Anyway looking forward to touching bases with the site administrators > for Australia/Tasmania and as said happy to put in to get the job > done. OSM has no concept of "site administrators for Australia/Tasmania". For discussion on potential imports of free (free as in freedom, not zero cost), this list is the best place.
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