psma-admin-bdys2osm

This repo converts PSMA Administrative Boundaries data into OSM XML.

The data publisher has completed the OSMF CC BY waiver clearing the licensing aspect of an OSM import.

This conversion process outputs results as relations ensuring shared borders are only represented once.

Tagging

Local Government Areas

type=boundary
boundary=administrative
admin_level=6
place=municipality
name=
short_name=

With optional tags wikidata, website, phone, email.

Suburbs / Localities

type=boundary
boundary=administrative
admin_level=10
name=

Data also contains ACT Districts which are mapped to admin_level=7 + place=district and SA Hundreds which are ommitted.

With optional tags place, postal_code, wikidata.

Processing

https://github.com/andrewharvey/psma-admin-bdys-data is used to help process the upstream data, either run through that process or shortcut to the prebuild files using:

make download extract

Convert the Shapefiles to GeoJSON

yarn install
make geojson geojson_osm

Convert the GeoJSON to TopoJSON

make topojson

Simplify the TopoJSON to reduce excess nodes

make simplify

Convert the TopoJSON to OSM

make osm

Outputs

Processed outputs at https://tianjara.net/data/PSMA_AdminBdy_OSM/