WikiProject New Zealand
 New Zealand |
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Welcome to the wiki project New Zealand page - this page is dedicated to helping OSM mappers working on adding content in New Zealand.
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Please be aware there is currently (2011-12) a data import in progress from Land Information New Zealand and the NZ Open GPS project, of all New Zealand roads and other items. See the New Zealand Data Import Projects for details on getting involved, or join the nzopengis group (see below). This should not stop mappers adding any data - we will merge LINZ data around manually mapped items. |
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Please note that there is currently an overhaul happening to the NZ pages to help people find what they need. Hang tight and we'll have it sorted soon. |
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Please don't retrace LINZ coastlines or other source=gps items with Bing satellite traces which for many parts of the country are very badly aligned (60-100m out) and of inferior quality to the aerial ortho-photographs the LINZ data was traced from. |
If you notice a problem on the map and don't have time to fix it or are not sure what needs to be done, then please leave a note in the relevant sub-section, so that other people can help resolve it.
Alternatively, OpenStreetBug is a great way of simply leaving notes on a map, without having to get into editing, or registering (literally two clicks and add some text): if you'd like to get involved, visit this link, and add a note where you see anything that's wrong [1]
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Community
OSM Auckland meetings
Meetings currently suspended. Would you like to start meetings in Auckland?
See OSM Auckland for more info.
OSM Wellington meetings
I'm organising a Wellington OSM meet up. All are welcome to attend
See OSM Wellington for more info.
Online
- http://groups.google.com/group/nzopengis where most NZ-centric, OSM-based discussions take place.
- http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/aust-nz, another NZ-relevant e-mail list for the discussion of open geo-data, although very quiet as of 2011
Other regional OSM groups
Maybe you are interested in building the offline community in other locations around New Zealand?
We (OSM Auckland mappers) are willing to assist - feel free to get in contact via the nzopengis list, or here.
Regional projects
North Island
See WikiProject New Zealand North Island
South Island
See WikiProject New Zealand South Island
Including... 2011 Christchurch earthquake - resources and mapping coordination of this current disaster
Chatham Islands
- This data was added as a test of the LINZ bulk import
- OSM map: Chatham Islands
- See LINZ Chatham Islands import status
- All roads, which have been named. Road type is unknown
Other Islands
- Subantarctic islands from LINZ
- Tropical pacific islands from LINZ
- Kermadec Islands
- Sub-Antarctic islands
- Mayor Islands
- Motiti Island
- Bare Island
- Three Kings Islands
- Bounty Islands
- The Snares
- Antipodes Islands
- Auckland Islands
- Campbell Islands
- Moutohora Island
Data import projects
See New Zealand data import projects
Sub-projects
Tag Suggestions
Some tags we may need to create, for satisfactory mapping of New Zealand
- Need to agree how to match the classification of the New Zealand road network onto the Key:highway tag. For example should State highways be 'trunk' or 'primary'. Idealy the end result could be included in Key:highway#International_equivalence table. A list of State Highways can be found on here[5].
- Talk:Proposed_features/mtb:scale#New_Zealand_grading_system - How should we tag mountainbike tracks with grades?
- Proposed features/Volcano
- other geothermal activity
- fumaroles
- steam vents
- bubbling thermal mud pools
- see: Craters of the Moon
- Braided rivers, [6], Need to create a proposal for these based on Proposed_features/Large_rivers --rcr
- Alternate Maori place names, tag with 'name:mi=Maori name' (e.g. name=New Zealand, name:mi=Aotearoa). See Key:name for more detail. --rcr
- Proposed_features/Power_plants - hydro/geothermal power
- Proposed_features/Railway_yard - numerous sidings around Auckland and elsewhere
- We need appropriate tags for our DOC (and other) backcountry huts as the current tags really only apply to the European style mountain huts which are really more like wilderness chalets; nearly all are private and/or operate like paid hotels, see: Proposed_features/wilderness_mountain_buildings and Talk:Proposed_features/wilderness_mountain_buildings --gerkin
- -- see discussion about this in the comments section of the bivouac_pnt layer in Rob's LINZ-2-OSM web app. --Hamish Dec 2010
new_zealand.osm
as NZ territory is across the international date line, data for the entire country needs to be downloaded in two pieces:
North and South Islands
on any system with wget installed (most GNU/Linux and BSD systems have wget by default, it can be installed on windows), this code will download an excerpt of the planet.osm file, containing data for new zealand's north and south islands
wget -O new_zealand.osm \ http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.6/*[bbox=165.9,-47.9,179.0,-34.0]
alternatively, use this as the download link:
- http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.6/*[bbox=165.9,-47.9,179.0,-34.0]
- There is a weekly extract for New Zealand hosted on Cloudmade, currently (2010-05) the compressed version is 28.2MB.
Chatham Islands
- Populated by the LINZ data bulk import
wget -O chathams.osm \ http://www.informationfreeway.org/api/0.6/*[bbox=-177.4,-44.5,-175.7,-43.5]
Other areas
See the LINZ#Areas wiki section for more.
Place names
- Here is a page for discussion of New Zealand/Place names, including Māori localization and what to call populated places of varying sizes.
Issues with alignment of Bing imagery
a number of OSM users are reporting poor accuracy of the Bing images - alignment is out by up to 20m in some areas of the world (e.g. Milford Sound out by approx 60m). The intention of the table below is to collect information regarding the accuracy of the images in New Zealand. It may be useful to carry out the same checks at different zoom levels
See also: True_Offset_Process and Talk:Bing for further discussions regarding accuracy of Bing imagery. Where available, large numbers of GPS traces can be used to correctly align the imagery, for example in JOSM using the Imagery plugin (see http://josm.openstreetmap.de/wiki/Plugins), however this offset may only be valid for a few hundred metres, at which point the alignment may drift by > 5m, and re-alignment using GPS traces will be necessary.
The alignment issue is inherent in aerial or satellite photography. Due to the different terrain heights as they present themselves to the camera lens and the curve of the earth this produces a 2D image that is not possible to get exactly aligned on all four sides. When the image has to be aligned to other images that are stitched together to make up the full background canvas it is quite commonly the case that they do not line up completely. As cameras get higher resolution and can take in more terrain in one photo this problem gets reduced but never eliminated. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthophoto for more information about how this is corrected. Unless imagery is orthorectified, these problems always occur. Enzedrail 21:45, 2 January 2012 (UTC)
- see comments re. suitability in the Talk side of this wiki page ("Discussion" tab at the top of this page)
| province | city/town/suburb | item | latitude according to GPS | longitude according to GPS | latitude according to Bing | longitude according to Bing | latitude error | longitude error | zoom level |
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| auckland | parnell | artwork in the domain |
