Hey Ian,
On Sun, 27 Apr, 2014 at 10:47 AM, Ian Sergeant <[email protected]> wrote:
I don't really agree. I think we need suburb boundaries to be as accurate as we can make them at the time we create them, and not do a mass import leaving us with thousands of FIXMEs. Importing data we know is wrong at the time we import it is the wrong thing to do.
So you are saying the ABS suburb boundaries should be checked individually rather than imported en mass? How do you know that the quality of the GNB/Wikipedia/etc data is any better than that of the ABS dataset where they disagree?
On a related note, what's the appropriate way to map suburb-sized areas that are partitions? A way for each suburb that share nodes along common borders, a way for each suburb that don't duplicate nodes along common borders, or using a single way for the border and using a relation?
Hopefully we will have access to the accurate and official suburb boundaries in Sydney in an open format sometime in the future (like we have for other cities). Then this problem will go away.
I literally just heard back from LPI about my enquiry: "LPI is currently reviewing the licencing framework and will be in a better position to answer your query within the next 4 to 6 weeks", so maybe we will have the data sooner rather than later. I've asked if I can make a submission to whoever is doing the review, will post the details there if I get them so we can canvas for a good outcome.
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