Re: [talk-au] Cabonne Shire Roads
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Nick Hocking wrote: Please, guys, don't copy road names from anywhere. I'll second third and fourth that. There are Easter eggs everywhere. A quick visual check of different copyrighted maps quickly shows the presence of these. A town or suburb usually has at least one. A 10 minute check of Dubbo found no less than eight! The last time I looked none of dubbo's had made it into OSM but elsewhere I have found, and removed a few easter eggs. and this is the very nice reply from Cabonne Shire The reason you do not see any road name signs for this road is because it has not yet been formally named. The RTA proposed to rename this road (from Cudal to Cowra) as Wiradjuri Way/Hwy several years ago, but that proposal seems to have ground to a halt. If I recall correctly both Cowra and Cabonne Councils agreed to this in principal but the matter did not proceed, probably due to some staff changes within the RTA. For our purposes we refer to it as Canowindra Road and that is the name that has been used for rural addressing purposes. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Cabonne Shire Roads
Liz Wrote and this is the very nice reply from Cabonne Shire For our purposes we refer to it as Canowindra Road and that is the name that has been used for rural addressing purposes. Hi Liz, Will the council agree to us using this unofficial name in OSM?. I think that we should try to engage every council in the land with a supposedly innocuous question about road naming and OSM, in the attempt ot get them interested in the project. I will either e-mail or write to Queanbeyan Council with the vitally important question as to whether OSM should have a Magruerita Street or a Margeurita Street. They'll probably think I'm daft but they will have to fix the signs and will probably have a look at OSM as well. Nick ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..
I totally agee that it's a good idea to work this out, I've been silent on the matter because I'm far from clear as to what is a good approach. I'm currently wrestling with trying to get a handle on how we can tell whether the ABS data is more geographically accurate than yahoo or other data (not necessairly whether it is an accuate reflection of the boundaries) So, yes - thoughts please cheers On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 2:05 PM, Ian Sergeant iserg...@hih.com.au wrote: Okay - so the ABS data is in. Moving the Murrumbidgee appears successful. Can we document a process for how we treat this data and the data surrounding it. Firstly, is it generally desirable for it to align with other data? For example coastline and riverbanks, where it is apparent that it should align? If so, do we reuse the same ways, and just apply the relation? If so, and in a particular case we are confident that the ABS data isn't correctly aligned to a feature - say a coastline - how do we indicate that it is altered on the relation? Perhaps if we have a standard way of doing this, we can put it on the wiki somwhere. Any thoughts? Ian. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Franc ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
