[MLB-WIRELESS] Expressions of interest

[lkhoo at csc.com.au]

Evilbunny,

My dad used to work for National Mapping (which became AUSLIG) and asked if
there was any free electronic data source for Australian maps.
At his previous work to used to pretty much give away mapping data to
different organisations (mining, military, community groups etc etc).

This doesn't seem to have propagated to electronic versions however.

This is pretty much what he said :

"Lucas
There are some from local councils websites maps would be pdf format.
eg http://www.caloundra.qld.gov.au
The USA got some free samples eg http://www.usgs.gov.

I dont think there are any free electronic data that you use in any mapping
software.
You have to pay and would be restricted to research only for study in Uni
or
any
non profit community use."

Lucas


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,
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>
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