A few days ago Bob from the Royal Geographical Society of QLD sent me an email about mapping historical Pastoral Districts.
Anyone around Brisbane should have a little read (particularly the question to OSM). I made the suggestion that Open Historical Map should be used instead. I was also thinking that OSM Brisbane and RGSQ could get together for an event again! Does anyone have anything to add? -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: MAP GROUP, ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY OF QLD (RGSQ) & OSM Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2018 15:03:28 +1000 From: Bob Abnett <[email protected]> Joel, Prior to your running the OSM group in Brisbane, the Map Group had a close working relationship to David Dean, the previous contact person - now working in Armidale, NSW. Map Group members have not been so responsive to OSM this year, as RGSQ is looking for a replacement premises and Map Group, within RGSQ, is temporarily meeting in Moorooka, not Milton anymore. As the Co-Ordinator of Map Group, I am also heading up the Replacement Premises Committee of RGSQ and hence, I personally, have been very busy on building matters. However, this replacement building process is expected to be completed during the second half of 2018 and as Co-ordinator of Map Group, I am looking at the 2019 Program. 2019 Program: Mapping of the early Pastoral Districts of Queensland One of the Presenters in 2019 will be an historian, who has been recording the history of the early Land Commissioners in Pre-Separation Qld from 1842 to 1859. She has asked if Map Group could consider some modern digitally based mapping system to re-map the original Pastoral Districts of Pre-Separation Queensland. These Pastoral Districts were initially described in the NSW Govt Gazette by "metes and bounds" and from these "original boundaries", quite simple maps were drawn up of Southern Queensland by the then Colonial Govt of NSW, as it was in the 1840s and 1850s, using the Pastoral Districts as the basis for mapping. Both the historian and Map Group have got digital images from the NSW State Archives of these early, but rather simple Pastoral District maps. Once Queensland became a separate colony in 1859, it set up its own Lands Department containing surveyors and later cartographers, and the mapping of Queensland vastly improved from then onwards. Later in 2019, Map Group is to have another Presenter talk about the mapping of Queensland from 1860 to the 1880s, when much of the State was then mapped (at a far higher standard than that from the earlier period). Question to OSM: Would the Brisbane group of OSM be interested in participating with some Map Group members in a mapping exercise of: mapping the boundaries of Qld's Pre-Separation Pastoral Districts, upon an OSM base map of Queensland? I have looked at OSM for Queensland and at a higher level of mapping, versus the close up "zooming in", where local details come to the fore, it would initially look possible to map the Pastoral District boundaries. When David Dean taught Map Group members how to use OSM in 2016, it was at the local level and we learnt particularly about placing buildings onto OSM maps. (we worked the Milton area as Map Group; then South Brisbane, as a group; the Nundah area as part of a Map Group project, then many of us did our own streets where we live). I believe that those of us interested in mapping the Pastoral District boundaries would need to learn how to edit OSM to map such boundaries. Note that these early Pastoral District Maps covered all of Southern Qld, northwards to Gladstone and westwards to the Maranoa, west of the Darling Downs. Hence the boundaries cover a lot of territory. Anyway, would the OSM group in Brisbane be interested in such a "higher level" of mapping? If so, would you or someone else be willing to "teach" a few Map Group members how to map boundary lines? (versus the shapes of buildings traced over aerial imagery, which we all learnt to do). I look forward to your reply and if you wish to meet up firstly, over a coffee to discuss, then please say so. Thanks and cheers Bob Abnett Co-ordinator, Map Group, RGSQ --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
