Hi. In terms of "Is there a way to enter it?" suburb/town boundaries are an admin boundary. Make a relation of the ways that enclose the area with boundary=admin. Check the wiki for the right level for towns/suburbs. (I think 8 but I could be wrong.)
- Ben Kelley. On 27 Nov 2013 00:03, "Steve Dalton" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All > > Finally found the AU OSM list! > > I'm currently doing a bit of work with OSM for a client and I've > stumbled on a problem I had some time ago. Gold Coast suburbs are > completely wrong! > > I'm pretty new to OSM - so forgive my ignorance here, but from what I > can see the administrative boundary for suburb is just set from a > point and it just calculates your suburb from the nearest > administrative point. So I live in Parkwood (no point has been set for > this), my street comes up as Nerang and the street next to me comes up > as Helensvale! > > If I was to get hold of proper suburb boundaries from the council - is > there any way to even enter it? I can't quite see how. Has anyone in > other cities done this? I did see some reference to Adelaide in the > list archives but as I've not done a lot of geospatial work some of > the terms and formats were new to me. > > There is quite a bit of support for Open Data at the moment in Gold > Coast City council, so would appreciate any advice from other > contributors on the best format for data, best way to get this data > into OSM (if possible) and how best to work with the council. > > I would really like to encourage OSM usage more in my local area - but > with a fundamental problem like this - it's a bit embarrassing. My > general response to things like this is to use RMS's words "We can fix > that!" but I'm a little stumped here on how to go about it, so any > help appreciated. > > Many thanks > Steve > > -- > Refactor. Engage | Succeed | Repeat > tel: +61 (0)7 5668 3424 > mob: +61 (0)414 464564 > web: refactor.com.au > > _______________________________________________ > Talk-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au >
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