[Aust-NZ] linz2osm2linz

[Sam Vekemans]

great,
thanks.
Yes, i'll make a wiki page for it, once i get the database framework
more complete. ... for now, im working on entergrating more data and
organizing the categories.


alot of changes are happening fast, so it's still offline mostly.


cheers,
sam

On 9/5/10, Hamish <hamish_b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Sam Vekemans wrote:
>> for those interested in learning about how the canvec
>> processs works
>> for canada, and getting changes back,
>> feel free to ask on the talk-ca at openstreetmap.org
>> list.
>>
>> NRCan will be making diff files of omissions and
>> remissions, of osm/canvec data hopefully for the fall.
>
> any chance of putting together a whitepaper/wiki page describing it?
> :-)
>
>
>> anyway, im working on an international tagging schema, so are there
>> any more tagging matches done than is already posted to the wiki?
>
> Yes, a lot. (most)
>
> The wiki was only used to sort things our when a single layer had many
> possible attributes to match. (e.g. building types -> school, hospital,
> etc)
>
> see the "Export data-dict XML" wish here:
>   http://github.com/rcoup/linz2osm/issues
>
> for most layers, discussion and tag-matching happened in the web-app.
>
>
> fwiw so far we have only finalized tag matching for layers relevant for
> the Chatham Island dataset, maybe there is 1/3rd or more attributes still
> to do once we hit the mainland? so yet slightly incomplete.
>
> One thing we found using the OSM wiki tagging pages as a guide was that
> often UK->German->USA->NZ ideas about what to call something was rather
> diverse (e.g. precise def'n of a "jetty" or "bivouac"), and other items
> only local (e.g. a "Marae").
>
>
> cheers,
> Hamish
>
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