[talk-au] Queensland street names
Hi, I have recently started with OpenStreetMap and have been tracing missing roads around Bundaberg. However I have not tagged the names of most of these roads as I do not have this information. The Australian Tagging Guidelines page has under the 'Naming streets' section a link to the "Information Queensland" site which is a Qld government site with mapping data. Can I use this site for obtaining street names in Qld? Can I use other information on their maps such as river and creek names, or parks etc? Since it is linked from the wiki, I presume that I can use the information but I would like to check just to be sure. Thanks, Peter ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Queensland street names
The link on that page took me to: http://qspatial.information.qld.gov.au/IQAtlas/ At the bottom right of that page is a link to: http://www.nowwhere.com.au/lic/NowWhereLic.htm Which quite clearly says that it can't be reused without permission. I suspect that the link has been given on the OSM wiki solely in the context of investigating cases where a street has two names, and deciding which is the most correct to use. Best to stick with on-the-ground surveys. Cheers, Andrew On 8 October 2012 19:22, Peter Hollis wrote: > Hi, > I have recently started with OpenStreetMap and have been tracing missing > roads > around Bundaberg. However I have not tagged the names of most of these > roads as > I do not have this information. The Australian Tagging Guidelines page has > under the 'Naming streets' section a link to the "Information Queensland" > site > which is a Qld government site with mapping data. Can I use this site for > obtaining street names in Qld? Can I use other information on their maps > such > as river and creek names, or parks etc? Since it is linked from the wiki, > I > presume that I can use the information but I would like to check just to > be sure. > Thanks, > Peter > > > ___ > Talk-au mailing list > Talk-au@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au > -- Andrew ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Queensland street names
Andrew, Thanks for that info. I'm heading to Bundaberg in a few weeks so I will grab what information I can while I am there. Cheers, Peter ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] New Australian caching server. Feedback?
Classic. "You know you've got an OSM addiction problem when..." On 08/10/2012, at 0:26, Nick Hocking wrote: > Today I had 8 gps units in the car and 5 were logging With that density, the traces you make on some residential streets must somewhat resemble the harbour bridge. :-p. Seriously tho... great simple idea to get multi traces in one sweep if u have the devices (and they're switched on, of course)! ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Gold Coast Highway
Hi Peter, I noticed the same thing in parts of Sydney (people creating new ways for a bus route). You are right the bus route probably should be set up as a relation, comprising of existing ways so maybe contact the user who created them and ask if they object to you improving on their input by making it compliant with this - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Public_transport Last year I did some work in Forster NSW with bus stops, routes, and route master relations on existing ways based upon that document. End result here - http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-32.18936&lon=152.51765&zoom=15&layers=T Note the Transport layer on osm.org ignores any defined route colours. All bus routes are simply rendered as red. Looking forward to getting back up there again soon and checking out the progress on the new Gold Coast light rail project. BJ On 07/10/2012, at 16:29, Peter Watson wrote: > Hi everyone, > I have been doing editing in the Surfers Paradise area and I have noticed > that the north bound lane of the Gold Coast Hwy has 2 Ways both tagged > Primary, 1 has a relation "Gold Coast Highway" attached but no roles defined! > the other has bus route tags also. My understanding is that bus routes should > be set up as a route relation for each bus route using existing ways not > making new ways. Both of these ways have had many edits from many different > people. > Peter W > ___ > 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
