On Wed, 1 Jul 2020 at 17:10, Little Maps <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi folks, apologies for repeated queries... I asked a couple of weeks ago > about the preferred tags for mapping production forests (i.e. > landuse=forest), in preparation for mapping tree cover across SW Victoria. > Thinking about this more, it makes more sense to first map all State Forests > in the region (hardly any are mapped to date), and then perhaps later move > onto other bushland and plantations. > State Forests are not included in the VicMap Lite (Public Land ) Parks and > Reserve map layer in JOSM.The State Forests dataset is available form Vic Gov > at > https://discover.data.vic.gov.au/dataset/state-forest-public-land-management > This has a CC Attribution 4.0 International licence. Two questions: > > (1) My understanding of OSM agreement with the Vic Gov copyright is that this > info is available for use in OSM. Is this correct? > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Data_Imports#Victoria > > It's actually the waiver at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Vicmap_CCBYPermission_OSM_Final_Jan2018_Ltr.pdf which is linked to from https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_data_catalogue which allows this to be used in OSM, but yes so long as the attribution exists at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#Australia (which it does for most VicMap datasets) then this is fine. > If so, I can trace the data to add it to OSM, yes? (I don’t have the > knowledge to do an automated import, even if that was allowed). > > Yes tracing from the VicMap data is fine, and in some ways prefered so you can carefully validate what information you're adding and making sure it doesn' conflict or overlap with what's in OSM already. > (2) I think I should be able to view the State Forests data layer as a > background image in JOSM. Is this correct? These are the instructions I’ve > found:https://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Help/Preferences/Imagery > (3) If so, can someone tell me how to re-format the WMS URL for the State > Forests layer so I can view it in JOSM? This is the URL that is displayed > when I click on the WMS URL button on the Vic Gov page > above:http://services.land.vic.gov.au/catalogue/publicproxy/guest/dv_geoserver/wms?SERVICE=WMS&VERSION=1.1.1&REQUEST=GetMap&WIDTH=512&HEIGHT=512&LAYERS=CROWNLAND_PLM25_STATE_FOREST&STYLES=&FORMAT=image%2Fpng&SRS=EPSG%3A4283&BBOX=141%2C-39%2C150%2C-34 > I’m happy to plug away on this project for many weeks so I assure you that > any help will be worthwhile. Thanks in anticipation (once again). Best wishes > Ian > >
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