Can someone please map: Alpine, Baw Baw, Mount Buffalo, Errinundra and Snowy River National Parks as well as the Avon Wilderness Park, Walhalla and adjacent Historic Parks?
I'm after park boundaries, tracks and trails and visitor facilities.
OpenStreetMap
Can someone please map: Alpine, Baw Baw, Mount Buffalo, Errinundra and Snowy River National Parks as well as the Avon Wilderness Park, Walhalla and adjacent Historic Parks?
I'm after park boundaries, tracks and trails and visitor facilities.
Discussion
Comment from Unusual User Name on 30 October 2009 at 02:53
Hello Louise
I have to say I'm intrigued. Your profile says you work for Parks Victoria, so I'm not sure why they don't have the information.
The park boundaries is a difficult one - a good way to get the information is from the digital cadastre. Is the Victorian cadastre available to the public?
The Queensland one is available from here http://data.australia.gov.au/152
and the SA National Parks here http://data.australia.gov.au/589
I have myself created some NP boundaries from the Queensland data.
If you do work for Parks Victoria, and want the data in OSM, can you arrange for Parks Victoria to release a copyright free version of the park boundaries?
(a lot of Victorian Govt data is available, so there are precedents there)
(I'm sure there must be some other great datasets at Parks Victoria that people would be delighted to find in the public domain as well)
Regards
Fairfield
Comment from Louise Rose on 30 October 2009 at 02:59
Great to hear you've created park dataset, yes we do have park boundaries but not in OSM format. I will double check to see if we can release copyright free but I am 99 percent sure there are issues around this... hence my request.
Any other ideas you have, please feel free to add!
Comment from Unusual User Name on 30 October 2009 at 10:01
Files don't need to be in OSM format. Any GIS format can be manipulated. Shape files seem to be the standard.
It would be well nigh impossible for someone to go out and capture the park boundaries themselves, other features yes, but boundaries no. You need an authoritative, copyright free source from which to obtain the boundaries.
I'm not volunteering to do it, by the way.
I'm still no clearer on why you want it in OSM. If Parks Victoria would like it there, they need to help enable things.
Comment from Louise Rose on 3 November 2009 at 22:18
Right, got you. I'll see what, if anything can be done.
Thanks
Comment from BlueMM on 16 November 2009 at 05:15
Hi Louise, as Fairfield mentioned, it would be impossible to GPS map the boundries, there are plenty of parks without a designated fence the whole way round. If you wanted to walk it, you would have to refer to a copyrighted map :(
I remember some mention on the Australian OSM mailing list that the laws introducing a new national park has coordinates for the boundary in the legislation, but if that is true, I am unsure how comprehensive it is (marine parks are usually easy to define, the Alpine National Park - not so much :P ).
Ideally the government 2.0 initiative looking to make data more accessible will include data on park boundaries...