[Geodata] Re: [Aust-NZ] NZ geodata on OSGEO?

[shoaib]

Brent, thanks for taking the initiative on this

If we come up a minimum set of layers with an open licence for NZ then
we can feed that info back to OSM as well. I think they would be
interested in extending their data model to support additional layers.

For example there is talk of moving to a topological model so that
routing using OSM data becomes possible
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Routing).
There is also an example of contours being added to OSM.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gravitystorm/2273971905/in/photostream/

What would be best way to start? Perhaps a page on the Aus-NZ chapter
wiki listing layers and links to data?

regards
Shoaib

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Brent Wood <pcreso at pcreso.com> wrote:
>
>  --- Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemeD.net> wrote:
>
>
>  > Cameron Shorter wrote:
>  >
>  > > I'm CCing Jo Walsh and the osgeo geodata community as I expect they
>  > > will have suggestions on the best way to move forward technically.
>  >
>  > Host it on the already-existing OpenAerialMap and OpenTopoMap?
>
>  Um... The majority of the data I'm looking at is vector, which these don't
>  really support, AFAIK.
>
>  I'm not aware of any such initiatives for vector data that is appropriate
>  (although OpenStreetmaps makes sense for road centrelines, but that is in hand
>  elsewhere).
>
>  I thought perhaps something under http://www.osgeo.org/geodata might be
>  suitable, but didn't really want to go outside this list until we agree that we
>  have the data and interest to make this realistic.
>
>  However, as this has now been posted on the list for that initiative, here's
>  hoping we can progress this.
>
>
>
>  Cheers,
>
>    Brent Wood
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