Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

2012-03-03 Thread John F. Eldredge
Steve Bennett wrote: > On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 1:15 AM, John F. Eldredge > wrote: > > Here in the USA, highways commonly have signs stating the distance > to the next major town.  Are such distance signs no longer used in > Australia? > > Yes - usually abbreviated to just one or two letters, eg

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

2012-03-03 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 1:15 AM, John F. Eldredge wrote: > Here in the USA, highways commonly have signs stating the distance to the > next major town.  Are such distance signs no longer used in Australia? Yes - usually abbreviated to just one or two letters, eg "MB 40" might mean 40km to Mt Beau

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

2012-03-03 Thread mick
On Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:15:00 -0600 "John F. Eldredge" wrote: > mick wrote: > > > > > My original interest was if there was a specific point that said 'this > > is Sometown', where distances to adjacent towns were measured from, > > similar to the Australian convention where the "Zero Point" wa

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

2012-03-03 Thread Peter Wendorff
Am 03.03.2012 15:15, schrieb John F. Eldredge: Here in the USA, highways commonly have signs stating the distance to the next major town. Are such distance signs no longer used in Australia? In Germany these signs exist, but the distances refer to different locations. The sign located at the

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Co-ordinates for towns, etc in UK

2012-03-03 Thread John F. Eldredge
mick wrote: > > My original interest was if there was a specific point that said 'this > is Sometown', where distances to adjacent towns were measured from, > similar to the Australian convention where the "Zero Point" was set along > the roadside, at the Post Office which was usually next door

Re: [OSM-talk] Osmarender layer gone... why?

2012-03-03 Thread Simone Cortesi
On Sat, Mar 3, 2012 at 10:44, Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: > I discovered this morning that the osmarender layer is gone from osm's map > site. Why? I must have missed mention of it going away. Is there some other > server where osmarender tiles are shown? Have a look at this thread: http://lists.ope

[OSM-talk] Osmarender layer gone... why?

2012-03-03 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
I discovered this morning that the osmarender layer is gone from osm's map site. Why? I must have missed mention of it going away. Is there some other server where osmarender tiles are shown? -- Morten ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org h