[MLB-WIRELESS] Expressions of interest

[Steven Haigh]

As I've mentioned before, our data is from Land Victoria
(www.land.vic.gov.au)... I don't know if NSW or any other state has anything
like this.... Obviously Land Victoria only deals with Victorian data..

I'm pretty sure I sent it to you, but if not, my bad....

Signed,
Steven Haigh
http://wireless.org.au
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----- Original Message -----
From: "evilbunny" <evilbunny at sydneywireless.com>
To: "vak" <vak at alphalink.com.au>
Cc: "melbwireless" <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2002 10:26 PM
Subject: Re[2]: [MLB-WIRELESS] Expressions of interest


> Hello vak,
>
> Tyson asked steve to forward me contact details on where you guys got
> yours from and nothing to date has been forth coming, besides there is
> a bigger picture, royalty free data has a lot of commercial benefit, so
> I was hoping to pick help up from that sector once we had the ball
> rolling... I'm not looking at this for short term gain, there is a lot
> of people community wise out there that could use free data, a person
> emailed me the other week looking for data to map out some community
> events that happen regularish world wide... I'm sure once it was out
> there, there would no doubt be a lot of demand for it... Current data
> is at the whim of commercial enterprise and government, at least the
> US govt gives out decent free data sets in the US... most mapping data
> sets are derived and collated by a government body in Australia...
>
> --
> Best regards,
>  evilbunny                            mailto:evilbunny at sydneywireless.com
>
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> Thursday, December 5, 2002, 10:01:56 PM, you wrote:
>
> v> Hi EB,
>
> v> This seems like a crazy idea to me - how many people have GPS units and
are
> v> prepared to spend months mapping this data ? Why not do something
similar
> v> to MW and/or get sponsored data which is feature rich.
>
> v> I could understand you going to these lengths if there was no data
> v> available, but there is a plethora of information out there that you
could
> v> get free/very cheaply.
>
> v> Vaskos
> v> --------
>
>
>
> v> evilbunny wrote:
>
> >> Hello melbwireless,
> >>
> >>   Since we can't seem to easily obtain decent mapping data, we're
> >>   planning to actually create our own...
> >>
> >>   The data will be fairly basic vector type layers that can be munched
> >>   into something meaningful...
> >>
> >>   Idea at this stage is to create a simple XML type client for any/all
> >>   OS's that can pull data from GPS units...
> >>
> >>   Idea is you walk up to a intersection, grab GPS location (to as best
> >>   as possible the centre of the intersection without getting killed ;)
> >>   note the street names, (St, rd, etc etc) how many lanes, and other
> >>   bits that will make it useful. At this stage we're after any
> >>   suggestions on what data would be useful to capture etc...
> >>
> >>   Also trying to find out if people would be willing to go out and map
> >>   their suburbs or even surrounding suburbs, the data we plan to
> >>   release royalty free to anyone that wants it, some guys in the US
> >>   already have the mapping infrastructure to plot these vector points
> >>   into images... Because it will be royalty free there won't be any
> >>   issues with sharing it, because it won't be owned by any company
> >>   etc...
> >>
> >>   There are a lot of groups that could benefit from this apart from
> >>   wireless so there is a potential for a lot of collaboration between
> >>   different parts of the community to make this happen... and share in
> >>   the benefits of having it...
> >>
> >> --
> >> Best regards,
> >>  evilbunny                          mailto:evilbunny at sydneywireless.com
> >>
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