Re: [talk-au] Magpie nesting and swooping areas

2009-10-02 Thread Roy Wallace
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:33 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: It shouldn't be too hard to hack up a quick db that can do a layer over the top, I think people were suggesting to put this info directly into OSM but that may over kill a simpler DB can do the same thing in the same

Re: [talk-au] Magpie nesting and swooping areas

2009-09-14 Thread Neil Penman
I got whacked on the back of the head while mapping at the weekend.  I was just writing down the name of a park in Glenroy when it hit me.  At first I thought it was one of the locals so it was a bit of a relief to see the magpie fly off. Unfortunately i wasn't on my bike so no helmet, lots of

Re: [talk-au] Magpie nesting and swooping areas

2009-09-14 Thread John Smith
2009/9/14 Neil Penman ianaf4...@yahoo.com I got whacked on the back of the head while mapping at the weekend.  I was just writing down the name of a park in Glenroy when it hit me.  At first I thought it was one of the locals so it was a bit of a relief to see the magpie fly off.

Re: [talk-au] Magpie nesting and swooping areas

2009-09-11 Thread Liz
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Roy Wallace wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Ashley Kyd a...@kyd.com.au wrote: (Also, I'm not going to stick around and work out where the attack perimeter is. You can do that. They're nasty creatures. ;) Don't forget it should be verifiable, too :)

Re: [talk-au] Magpie nesting and swooping areas

2009-09-11 Thread Andrew Laughton
Maybe because they are not nesting at the moment. 2009/9/11 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com 2009/9/11 Liz ed...@billiau.net: magpies are very intelligent creatures they can tell the time (they know when the postie is coming) and they can tell a young male human from less aggressive

Re: [talk-au] Magpie nesting and swooping areas

2009-09-11 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:44:55 +1000 Ashley Kyd a...@kyd.com.au wrote: As far as I know, it's a problem in different locations from year to year though. That would mean it needs cleaning up each year after the magpie season's over. Assuming they nest reasonably consistently in the same place

Re: [talk-au] Magpie nesting and swooping areas

2009-09-11 Thread John Smith
2009/9/11 Andrew Laughton laughton.and...@gmail.com: Maybe because they are not nesting at the moment. No, they're nesting and even when the young chicks are just out of the nest they don't either. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Magpie nesting and swooping areas

2009-09-11 Thread John Smith
2009/9/11 Hugh Barnes list@hughbris.com: Let's see who the dedicated mappers are. :D Are we really out of things to map? :) ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Magpie nesting and swooping areas

2009-09-11 Thread Roy Wallace
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Hugh Barnes list@hughbris.com wrote: I'd like that, too. It's also been discussed regarding temporary features like events and road closures and seasonal features. T-shirt. I'm guessing you've seen the following proposal (early stages)?

[talk-au] Magpie nesting and swooping areas

2009-09-10 Thread Hugh Barnes
Just read in my local rag about a magpie hotspot map: http://city-south-news.whereilive.com.au/news/story/magpie-hotspots/ This occurred to me just recently after being on the receiving end of an air raid. Should probably be areas rather than nodes. It would be a useful feature on the cycle map

Re: [talk-au] Magpie nesting and swooping areas

2009-09-10 Thread Roy Wallace
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Ashley Kyd a...@kyd.com.au wrote: (Also, I'm not going to stick around and work out where the attack perimeter is. You can do that. They're nasty creatures. ;) Don't forget it should be verifiable, too :) ___