Re: [talk-au] Oodnadatta Track
Hi Russell, Yes, the track itself has been done. The southern half, Marree to the Coober Pedy turnoff had been done a little while ago; I finished the northern half in June. It's the road to the west of Lake Eyre: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-28.31&lon=136.21&zoom=8&layers=0B00FTF There are plenty other roads nearby though; I planned to do the Painted Desert road, for exmaple, but ran out of time. The track to the east of Lake Eyre is the Birdsville Track, then east again is the Strzelecki Track. There's no NextG access (though when I did the Strzelecki Track I was surprised to find that NextG is now available at Moomba). Happy travelling. Gordon On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:23 AM, Russell Lang wrote: > It looks like the Oodnadatta Track hasn't been drawn yet. I will be > driving > along this in September, and visiting a few of the national parks. I can > get > access to an etrex legend GPS. I'll be taking a Windows netbook with me. > Is there someone who wants to work with me, to take the GPS traces and > upload them? Depending on internet access (Telstra NextG), I might be > able to upload some information while still in the field. > > > Russell Lang gsv...@ghostgum.com.au > Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd http://www.ghostgum.com.au/ > > > ___ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > -- Gordon Smith http://las.new-england.net.au/ http://blog.macalba.net/ ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Orchards
--- On Sun, 12/7/09, b.schulz...@scu.edu.au wrote: > The NSW Govt maps (currently produced by the Dept of Lands) > only show orchard, plantation or vinyard as anything > different from the surrounding land. Grazing farmland > isn't shown as anything special, ie it's just > 'land'. Ahhh ok, I thought you meant going off local knowledge, although if you found a nice stock and station agent they might be able to fill in the specifics for you. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] Oodnadatta Track
It looks like the Oodnadatta Track hasn't been drawn yet. I will be driving along this in September, and visiting a few of the national parks. I can get access to an etrex legend GPS. I'll be taking a Windows netbook with me. Is there someone who wants to work with me, to take the GPS traces and upload them? Depending on internet access (Telstra NextG), I might be able to upload some information while still in the field. Russell Lang gsv...@ghostgum.com.au Ghostgum Software Pty Ltd http://www.ghostgum.com.au/ ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Orchards
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, b.schulz...@scu.edu.au wrote: > I've read through the discussion about the landuse=vinyard tag > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Vineyard) and the > general consensus seems to be that landuse=farm, produce=blah is the best > approach. > > Anyway, just opening this up for debate in the hope that an Australian > convention can be decided on. This is one of those things that makes the difference between the cheap maps and the expensive ones. It certainly adds to the map, but living in an intensively farmed area I find it a bit frightening that I would have to mark vineyards / orchards / etc Landuse is the tag which gets rendered as the nice symbols or colours on the map. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Adopt-an-area
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Greg Harper wrote: > Fiji is my adopted country. I traced a fair bit of the roads to hopefully > inspire a local to start naming streets. There is finally at least one > active mapper there armed with a GPS and uploading GPX files and naming > streets, with another guy naming everything in Suva. I have been mainly > mentoring the mapper to assit with getting the edits right. > > Won't be sending any equipment, but are happy to assist in this way. Sounds great - mentoring is very worthwhile. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Adopt-an-area
Fiji is my adopted country. I traced a fair bit of the roads to hopefully inspire a local to start naming streets. There is finally at least one active mapper there armed with a GPS and uploading GPX files and naming streets, with another guy naming everything in Suva. I have been mainly mentoring the mapper to assit with getting the edits right. Won't be sending any equipment, but are happy to assist in this way. 2009/7/12 John Smith > > --- On Sun, 12/7/09, Liz wrote: > > > I'm making a suggestion for those who are not poor > > (students can ignore this) > > that we could pick developing countries with mappers on the > > ground and provide > > some assistance - advice on the map, help with data loggers > > and any other sort > > of help. > > While this is very laudable, when ever I start pondering about this I keep > coming back to how under mapped Australia is. > > It's quite frustrating, a lot of those countries have people willing and > able, but lack the technology to do something about it, and we lack in > people that are willing and able. > > > > > > > ___ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Orchards
--- On Sun, 12/7/09, b.schulz...@scu.edu.au wrote: > I've read through the discussion about the > landuse=vinyard tag > (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Vineyard) > and the general consensus seems to be that landuse=farm, > produce=blah is the best approach. No idea on the best approach, although that seems reasonable, and instead of grazing you could have produce=beef|sheep|goat|dairy. Although how finely do you want to do this, for example near Moree they grow a lot of cotton, but they also have a pecan nut farm, would it be produce nut or pecan_nut? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] Orchards
Greetings List, In the North Coast region there are a lot of fruit/nut plantations and I think it would be great to be able to differentiate between farmland which is used to graze cattle and farmland which is mostly orchards or sugar cane. I've read through the discussion about the landuse=vinyard tag (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Vineyard) and the general consensus seems to be that landuse=farm, produce=blah is the best approach. Anyway, just opening this up for debate in the hope that an Australian convention can be decided on. Brent ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] validator plugin updates
Pretty much all my patches have been incorporated into the current build, I have come across some extra things that need to be added to the ignore list, such as: cuisine=coffee_shop cuisine=fish_and_chips cuisine=pie Anyone else know of any that should also be listed showing up as warnings? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Adopt-an-area
--- On Sun, 12/7/09, Liz wrote: > I'm making a suggestion for those who are not poor > (students can ignore this) > that we could pick developing countries with mappers on the > ground and provide > some assistance - advice on the map, help with data loggers > and any other sort > of help. While this is very laudable, when ever I start pondering about this I keep coming back to how under mapped Australia is. It's quite frustrating, a lot of those countries have people willing and able, but lack the technology to do something about it, and we lack in people that are willing and able. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] Adopt-an-area
While most of OSM contributors are students and poor, some OSM contributors, especially here, are not... I'm making a suggestion for those who are not poor (students can ignore this) that we could pick developing countries with mappers on the ground and provide some assistance - advice on the map, help with data loggers and any other sort of help. I found one group had one GPS enabled phone between them and were running a competition on "how many edits" to see who got the GPS next. That group has accepted my offer of a data logger and one of the solar powered i-Blue PS-757 units will go over there - not a large cost to me but i think it will be a bonus to them. I know there is a complex UK administered gps loans system, and I could have donated to that, but I'd rather adopt-an-area in a more personal way. Liz ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
