Re: [talk-au] More General Observations
Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: In the 1980s we lived in NWQ, and travelled to Tassie on holidays. We got the impression that the road engineers were paid by the corner. As a motorcyclist who was finally able to tour Tassie on two wheels recently (been waiting ten years for the chance) I'd just like to say roads in Tasmania are AWESOME. The roads in South Gippsland on the way there and back... not so good for motorbikes, especially around Sale. -- Sam Couter | mailto:s...@couter.id.au OpenPGP fingerprint: A46B 9BB5 3148 7BEA 1F05 5BD5 8530 03AE DE89 C75C signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] More General Observations
On 9 May 2010 19:33, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: Mainly on straight roads. I know when tracing it can make it easier to do so using lots of nodes but this vandalism was hard to revert because of the number of excess nodes on ways. I've seen excess nodes created because people convert GPS traces to ways also... Use the Simplify Way tool in Josm or the Tidy tool in potlatch before you upload the way. The downside to this is the simplify function can remove too many nodes and reduce smoothing where and when it's actually needed. Don't have a node 2m away from an intersection, it makes it really hard to determine where the errors are. JOSM doesn't highlight errors well enough most of the time in my opinion, I've wasted a fair bit of time trying to track down problems that turned out to be false positives. Also when you choose to zoom to a problem, it shows the entire area instead of zooming to the actual spot where there is a problem. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] More General Observations
On Sun, 9 May 2010 20:49:57 +1000 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 May 2010 19:33, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: Mainly on straight roads. I know when tracing it can make it easier to do so using lots of nodes but this vandalism was hard to revert because of the number of excess nodes on ways. It is worth noting that you should add a node once every 5 km or so, no matter how straight a road looks, otherwise there might be rendering issues due to the projection being used. I'm talking about city blocks where over a 1/2km section there was 10 nodes not designating anything. The simplify way tool removed all of them and left the two end nodes only. They were traced from nearmap. -- Cheers Ross ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] More General Observations
On Sun, 9 May 2010, Ross Scanlon wrote: Except Tasmania where I don't think I saw a road outside towns that was straight for more than 1k, whereas out the back blocks of Qld etc they go forever. In the 1980s we lived in NWQ, and travelled to Tassie on holidays. We got the impression that the road engineers were paid by the corner. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
