Re: [talk-au] What data is useful - request for ideas

2019-05-07 Thread David Dean
Hi Bob, You're doing some great work with collecting imagery data with Mapillary. We really appreciate that sort of data available for armchair mapping. I'd love to meet up for a coffee when you are back up in Armidale, and talk about your data collection process. I've been meaning to try and

[talk-au] Registration now open for FOSS4G SotM Oceania Community Day

2018-10-24 Thread David Dean
://communityday.foss4g-oceania.org/ to register to let us know you are coming! Please pass this email or send the above links to anyone you think might be interested, and happy mapping! David Dean, Community Day Organiser, FOSS4G SotM Oceania. -- http://dbdean.com

[talk-au] Open geospatial projects wanted for FOSS4G SotM Oceania Community Day

2018-09-05 Thread David Dean
to an exciting Community Day as part of FOSS4G SotM Oceania, and please do not hesitate to reach out and ask if you have any questions about how our Community Day can help an open-source or open-data geospatial project important to you. Thanks, David Dean dd...@ieee.org Coordinator, FOSS4G SotM

[talk-au] Farewell to Brisbane from me, OSM Brisbane will continue

2018-02-17 Thread David Dean
For those who don't already know, I have left Brisbane for Armidale, and won't be organising OSM events in Brisbane anymore. I have asked Joel Hansen, a very eager Brisbane mapper to help to ensure that Brisbane OSM events keep running. You should hear from him very soon about the next event!

[talk-au] Beaudesert Mapping Party Next Weekend (10th Feb)

2018-02-03 Thread David Dean
Hi fellow mappers! Only one week to go to our Beaudesert Mapping Party! Don't forget that I would be happy to give you a lift from basically anywhere in Brisbane if you are a bit daunted by the distance [1]. I also have a few more free car phone mounts (with thanks to Mapillary!) to help with

Re: [talk-au] How do I map left only turning lanes on a motorway?

2018-01-28 Thread David Dean
Hi Joel, I believe that that example is not mapped correctly, as the turning lane should only become a separate way when it reaches an actually, physical separation. While it is just a turning lane, it should just be indicated by lane tagging on the main way. I'd move the separation up to the

[talk-au] Beaudesert Mapping Party Coming Soon (10th Feb!)

2018-01-28 Thread David Dean
Hi everyone, and welcome to (almost) February, February's Mapping Party for Brisbane will be a little bit out of town this time: Beaudesert, but I hope I can encourage a good turnout. The mapping party will be on Saturday 10th Feb, and we will be meeting in the morning for coffee, then

Re: [talk-au] Mapping Indigenous Place Names

2018-01-26 Thread David Dean
to them. Some of this might stretch the 'verifiable on the ground' rule a little, but I think if there is significant local knowledge, it is fair game for the map. - David On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 at 14:03 David Dean <dd...@ieee.org> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Thanks for the great respon

Re: [talk-au] Mapping Indigenous Place Names

2018-01-26 Thread David Dean
that's worth doing is? :) - David On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 at 08:45 Andrew Harvey <andrew.harv...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 26 January 2018 at 23:33, David Dean <dd...@ieee.org> wrote: > >> Absolutely. If the more specific language code is known, it should be >> used. >

Re: [talk-au] Mapping Indigenous Place Names

2018-01-26 Thread David Dean
/wiki/Pama%E2%80%93Nyungan_languages, but I can't seem to find any sort of language code for that group. - David On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 at 22:28 Andy Mabbett <a...@pigsonthewing.org.uk> wrote: > On 26 January 2018 at 12:09, David Dean <dd...@ieee.org> wrote: > > > I've done a li

[talk-au] Mapping Indigenous Place Names

2018-01-26 Thread David Dean
Hi everyone, I've done a little research, and added the following section to the Australian Tagging Guidelines at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines#Places, and the Multilingual names page at https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Multilingual_names: Please use the

[talk-au] Brisbane Photo Mapping Party January 13th - Free Swag!

2017-12-30 Thread David Dean
Hi everyone! Two quick things: 1) While it's mostly me at this stage (See https://mapillary.github.io/mapillary_greenhouse/ctm/brisbane/) , Brisbane is doing great ( https://mapillary.github.io/mapillary_greenhouse/global-challenge/) at the global Mapillary #CompleteTheMap PhotoMapping

[talk-au] #CompleteTheMap and Upcoming Brisbane OSM Events in January and February

2017-12-15 Thread David Dean
Hi everyone! I've been a little quiet lately, but we have some announcements of new OpenStreetMap events happening around Brisbane into January and February, and I thought you might be interested. 1) Mapillary has started a #CompleteTheMap challenge

Re: [talk-au] [Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-ANZ?

2017-11-20 Thread David Dean
Agreed. Very interested in keeping momentum here. I have relationships with QUT, UQ and Griffith in Brisbane if that helps (although organising smaller OSM events through any of them has not been successful yet). Also, we have been discussing some of this on the MaptimeAU slack, in the #sotm

Re: [talk-au] [Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-ANZ?

2017-11-19 Thread David Dean
Hi everyone, I definitely want to get involved, particularly if we can incorporate a local OpenStreetMap State Of The Map (OSM SOTM) conference/track to go alongside/in partnership with F4G-AUNZ. There is some strong interest in the AU OSM community in getting something like this off the ground.

[talk-au] Would anyone like to kick-start Missing Maps in WA with SSSI?

2017-11-16 Thread David Dean
Hi everyone, I've had an enquiry (below) from Lesley Arnold, chair of SSSI WA, who'd like to get some MIssing Maps action happening over in their part of the world. If anyone is interested in helping, please feel free to get in touch with them. - David -- Forwarded message -

Re: [talk-au] Tag physical business location with their PO Box number

2017-10-09 Thread David Dean
nwastra, Great question! I'm not sure about the best answer though, as it doesn't seem to be an issue that has come up before on the wiki or on http://help.openstreetmap.org. I would suggest you have two options: 1) Ask on http://help.openstreetmap.org, and see if you get anything useful. It

[talk-au] Brisbane's First Ever Missing Maps Mapathon is coming soon (28th October)

2017-10-08 Thread David Dean
Help put the world's vulnerable people on the map! ** Brisbane's First Ever Missing Maps Mapathon is coming soon (28th October) Hi OSM, Brisbane is going to have its first ever Missing Maps Mapathon in a few short weeks, at Toowong

[talk-au] Reminder: West End Mapping Party Is this weekend!

2017-09-25 Thread David Dean
Hi everyone. Don't forget that our West End Mapping Party is on Saturday! I hope to see you there! ** Reminder: West End Mapping party is this weekend! Hi OSM, I hope you are excited about our Mapping Event that is coming up this

[talk-au] West End Mapping Party Coming Soon (30th September)

2017-09-19 Thread David Dean
Hi everyone, You may be exciting to know that we have another Mapping Event coming soon! Details below, please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/west-end-mapping-party-tickets-37838244207. I hope to see you there, and please pass this email onto anyone who you think might be interested.

[talk-au] West End (Brisbane) Mapping Party Coming Soon (30th September)

2017-09-12 Thread David Dean
Hi everyone, You may be excited to know that we have another Mapping Event coming soon in Brisbane! Details below, please register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/west-end-mapping-party-tickets-37838244207. I hope to see you there, and please pass this email onto anyone who you think might be

[talk-au] Upcoming RGSG/OpenStreetMap mapping event

2017-07-13 Thread David Dean
Hi everyone, (If you don't want me to send these emails to you, please let me know and I'll stop) As a follow up to our earlier successful RGSQ Mapping Days event ( https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Brisbane/Mapping_Parties/2017-06_RGSQ_Mapping_Days), we are having a short, casual, one-day

[talk-au] OSM/RGSQ Mapping Days - Call for OSM Mentors

2017-06-06 Thread David Dean
/wiki/Brisbane/Mapping_Parties/2017-07_RGSQ_Mapping_Days . If anyone is interested in helping out as a mentor (at no cost to you), or wish to attend as a participant (cost is $20 to cover RGSQ admin costs), please let me know as soon as you can. Sorry for the short notice! - David Dean -- http

Re: [OSM-talk] Okay, this is just cool (Lockport, NY)

2011-03-30 Thread David Dean
list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- David Dean Post-Doctoral Fellow, RP-SAIVT, QUT (me) http://www.davidbdean.com (saivt) http://www.bee.qut.edu.au/projects/saivt/ (post) Room S1101, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Australia 4001 (p) +61 7 3138 9329 (m) 0407

Re: [talk-au] Forest Lake Mapping Party is coming up soon (Sat 20th September)

2010-11-07 Thread David Dean
November 2010 20:54, David Dean dd...@ieee.org wrote: Hi everyone, OSM mapping party propaganda follows. Please pass onto anyone you think might be interested. - David Calling all map-lovers, amateur cartographers, surveyors and cartophiles! Local OpenStreetMappers are having a mapping

[talk-au] Forest Lake Mapping Party is coming up soon (Sat 20th September)

2010-11-02 Thread David Dean
and we’ll be happy to introduce you to OpenStreetMap, and maybe get you set up to map your local area. If you can come, please let David Dean know by Wednesday the 17th of September, so we can have some idea of how will be turning up on the day. Contact David Dean on 0407 151 912 to RSVP

Re: [talk-au] Brisbane Openstreetmap Meetup Monday October 18th @ Grange Library

2010-10-14 Thread David Dean
Hi everyone, I've had to cancel Monday's mapping meetup due to a lack of interest. I'll send details about the next event in the near future. - David On 11 October 2010 10:14, David Dean dd...@ieee.org wrote: Hi everyone, Only 1 week to go until the next mapping meetup. Please let me know

Re: [talk-au] Brisbane Openstreetmap Meetup Monday October 18th @ Grange Library

2010-10-10 Thread David Dean
Hi everyone, Only 1 week to go until the next mapping meetup. Please let me know if you plan on attending. - David On 4 October 2010 20:49, David Dean dd...@ieee.org wrote: Hi everyone, Brisbane OSM propaganda follows. Please let me know if you don't want to receive these emails in future

[talk-au] Brisbane Openstreetmap Meetup Monday October 18th @ Grange Library

2010-10-04 Thread David Dean
, but feel free to turn up within those times whenever you like. We’re trying to organise some alcoholic (and otherwise) drinks for the meetup, and we'll probably order a few pizzas on the night. If you are coming, please bring $10 to help pay for this. If you can come, please let David Dean know

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata amp; the new license

2010-09-24 Thread David Dean
would not be obliged to attribute either OSM or OpenData. - David -- David Dean Post-Doctoral Fellow, RP-SAIVT, QUT (me) http://www.davidbdean.com (saivt) http://www.bee.qut.edu.au/projects/saivt/ (post) Room S1101, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Australia 4001 (p) +61 7 3138 9329 (m) 0407 151 912

Re: [talk-au] Strathpine Mapping Party is coming up soon (Sat 18th September)

2010-09-12 Thread David Dean
Hi everyone, The next Brisbane OSM Mapping Party is this weekend (Sat 18th). Hope to see you there. Details below. - David On 6 September 2010 22:29, David Dean dd...@ieee.org wrote: Hi again everyone, Less than two weeks until the next Brisbane OSM Mapping Party. Details below. Please let

Re: [talk-au] Strathpine Mapping Party is coming up soon (Sat 18th September)

2010-09-06 Thread David Dean
Hi again everyone, Less than two weeks until the next Brisbane OSM Mapping Party. Details below. Please let me know if you plan on attending. - David On 23 August 2010 18:56, David Dean dd...@ieee.org wrote: Hi everyone, OSM mapping party propaganda follows. Please pass onto anyone you

[talk-au] Strathpine Mapping Party is coming up soon (Sat 18th September)

2010-08-23 Thread David Dean
be there between 13:00 and 14:00 and we’ll be happy to introduce you to OpenStreetMap, and maybe get you set up to map your local area. If you can come, please let David Dean know by Wednesday the 15th of September, so we can have some idea of how will be turning up on the day. Contact David Dean on 0407 151

[talk-au] Looking for a Central NSW OpenStreetMapper for Spatial Interest Group Presentation

2010-08-10 Thread David Dean
To: David Dean dd...@ieee.org Cc: Peter Shoemark x...@xxx snip 2. OSM presentation to Illawarra Geospatial User Group (IGUG) http://groups.google.com/group/igug being organised by Peter Shoemark. I phoned Peter this morning, suggested best solution one or more Wollongong area OSM folk attend and present

Re: [talk-au] Brisbane Openstreetmap Meetup Monday August 16th @ Grange Library

2010-08-08 Thread David Dean
and see how it's done. Details follow. - David On 26 July 2010 20:54, David Dean dd...@ieee.org wrote: Hi everyone, Brisbane OSM propaganda follows. Please let me know if you don't want to receive these emails in future. - David --- Calling all map-lovers, amateur cartographers

Re: [talk-au] Brisbane Openstreetmap Meetup Monday August 16th @ Grange Library

2010-08-02 Thread David Dean
follow. - David On 26 July 2010 20:54, David Dean dd...@ieee.org wrote: Hi everyone, Brisbane OSM propaganda follows. Please let me know if you don't want to receive these emails in future. - David --- Calling all map-lovers, amateur cartographers, surveyors and cartophiles! There’s

[talk-au] Brisbane Openstreetmap Meetup Monday August 16th @ Grange Library

2010-07-26 Thread David Dean
to 22:00, but feel free to turn up within those times whenever you like. We’re trying to organise some alcoholic (and otherwise) drinks for the meetup, and we'll probably order a few pizzas on the night. If you are coming, please bring $10 to help pay for this. If you can come, please let David Dean

Re: [talk-au] Brisbane Openstreetmap Meetup Monday August 16th @ Grange Library

2010-07-26 Thread David Dean
Whoops, the RSVP data should have been Friday 13th August. - David On 26 July 2010 20:54, David Dean dd...@ieee.org wrote: Hi everyone, Brisbane OSM propaganda follows. Please let me know if you don't want to receive these emails in future. - David --- Calling all map-lovers, amateur

[talk-au] Fwd: OSM Mapping Party - Bell 31 Oct?

2010-07-14 Thread David Dean
to the data afterwards. If anyone else is interested, please let us know. I've attached a brief overview of the event to this email, but if talk-au doesn't work with attachments let me know and I'll send the text in a future email. - David -- Forwarded message -- From: David Dean

Re: [talk-au] OSM Mapping Party - Bell 31 Oct?

2010-07-14 Thread David Dean
information: If you would like to be involved with the MapMyTown project as a participant, sponsor or just have general questions or comments, please contact the SSSIQ YPs Chair, Chris McAlister @ madamefishfigh...@rocketmail.com or on 0407668512 On 15 July 2010 10:19, David Dean dd...@ieee.org wrote

Re: [talk-au] Bribie Island OpenStreetMap Mapping Party coming up soon! (Sat 17 July)

2010-07-10 Thread David Dean
know if you have any special dietary requirements that won't be met by bacon, sausages and eggs, and I'll make sure there's something there for you too. See you soon! - David On 28 June 2010 16:55, David Dean dd...@ieee.org wrote: Hi everyone, OSM mapping party propaganda follows. Please pass

Re: [talk-au] Bribie Island OpenStreetMap Mapping Party coming up soon! (Sat 17 July)

2010-07-03 Thread David Dean
Hi everyone, Only two weeks to go until the next Brisbane OSM Meetup at Bribie Island! Read below for more details. - David On 28 June 2010 16:55, David Dean dd...@ieee.org wrote: Hi everyone, OSM mapping party propaganda follows. Please pass onto anyone you think might be interested

[talk-au] Bribie Island OpenStreetMap Mapping Party coming up soon! (Sat 17 July)

2010-06-28 Thread David Dean
to be social, please feel free to turn up at the Bribie Island Hotel anyway. We’ll be there between 13:00 and 14:00 and we’ll be happy to introduce you to OpenStreetMap, and maybe get you set up to map your local area. If you can come, please let David Dean know by Wednesday the 14th of June, so we

[talk-au] Fwd: Community Notification- Services Relocation

2010-06-09 Thread David Dean
. This email was sent by Thiess John Holland, contac...@tjh.com.au to Unsubscribe -- David Dean Post-Doctoral Fellow, RP-SAIVT, QUT (me) http://www.davidbdean.com (saivt) http://www.bee.qut.edu.au/projects/saivt/ (post) Room S1101, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Australia 4001 (p) +61 7 3138 1414

Re: [talk-au] Community Notification- Services Relocation

2010-06-09 Thread David Dean
Whoops, In removing the formatting the link broke. The CLICK HERE linked to http://bridgemail.bigbridge.com.au/ch/21212/2dd7vq5/1247265/174e314xfc.pdf - David On 10 June 2010 14:26, David Dean dd...@ieee.org wrote: Looks like NearMap or us need to talk to BrisConnections about attribution

Re: [talk-au] Brisbane Mapping Meetup #2 is soon!

2010-06-07 Thread David Dean
Hi everyone, Only two weeks to go now to the next OSM Meetup, now at the exciting new Monday night timeslot. Please let me know if can come, and I'll be sending out another reminder email in a week's time. Happy mapping, - David On 30 May 2010 21:37, David Dean dd...@ieee.org wrote: Hi

[talk-au] Brisbane Mapping Meetup #2 is soon!

2010-05-30 Thread David Dean
) -- David Dean Post-Doctoral Fellow, RP-SAIVT, QUT (me) http://www.davidbdean.com (saivt) http://www.bee.qut.edu.au/projects/saivt/ (post) Room S1101, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Australia 4001 (p) +61 7 3138 1414 (m) 0407 151 912 (CRICOS) 00213J ___ Talk-au

[talk-au] Coomera Mapping Party is next weekend (Sat 15th May @ 09:00)

2010-05-03 Thread David Dean
know if you don't want these emails in future) -- David Dean Post-Doctoral Fellow, RP-SAIVT, QUT (me) http://www.davidbdean.com (saivt) http://www.bee.qut.edu.au/projects/saivt/ (post) Room S1101, GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, Australia 4001 (p) +61 7 3138 1414 (m) 0407 151 912 (CRICOS) 00213J

[talk-au] 5 seats still available for the Brisbane Sit Down Mapping Party. Only two weeks away!

2010-04-03 Thread David Dean
, Queensland Details are at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Brisbane_Sit-down_Mapping_Party_April_2010 Please pass this on to anyone you think might be interested. - David -- David Dean Post-Doctoral Fellow, RP-SAIVT, QUT (me) http://www.davidbdean.com (saivt) http://www.bee.qut.edu.au

[talk-au] Logan City Mapping Party is soon (09:00 20 Mar @ Logan Gardens)

2010-03-07 Thread David Dean
if you are coming and maybe pick a slice of the Mapping Cake. If the wiki editing is too daunting to do so, just email me and I'll edit it for you. Hope to see you all there, and happy mapping! - David -- David Dean Post-Doctoral Fellow, RP-SAIVT, QUT (me) http://www.davidbdean.com (saivt) http

Re: [talk-au] Australia BP service station dataset - suitable for bulk import?

2009-12-12 Thread David Dean
Maybe the fuel station node labelled 'BP' just a few 10s of metres away on the link you posted? http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-27.445482lon=153.029376zoom=18layers=B000FTF - David John Smith-131 wrote: Anyone familiar with the BP at this location? 44 Bowen Bridge Rd, Herston QLD

Re: [talk-au] Australia BP service station dataset - suitable for bulk import?

2009-12-12 Thread David Dean
Maybe the fuel station node labelled 'BP' just a few 10s of metres away on the link you posted? http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-27.445482lon=153.029376zoom=18layers=B000FTF - David John Smith-131 wrote: Anyone familiar with the BP at this location? 44 Bowen Bridge Rd, Herston QLD

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-18 Thread David Dean
Michael, Can you please submit your patches to the slippymap plugin for NearMap to the JOSM trac at josm.openstreetmap.de (if you haven't already) so that the mainline slippymap plugin can handle NearMap without us having to download patched versions. Thanks, - David Michael-557 wrote: In

[talk-au] Macleay Island Mapping party is soon! (Sat 21st Nov)

2009-11-09 Thread David Dean
Hi everyone. Just a quick note to let any Brisbane or nearby mappers know that the Macleay Island mapping party is fast approaching. We will be attempting to map as much of Macleay Island as we possibly can on Saturday the 21st of November, so the more people the merrier. Details are on the OSM

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-05 Thread David Dean
This pseudo-wms (or whatever we are calling it) doesn't appear to zoom in as far as the NearMap data allows. For example, this link: http://map-data.bigtincan.com/wms/nearmap.php?bbox=153.0113011,-27.4445217,153.0115373,-27.4443121srs=EPSG:4326width=500height=500 returns the right region, but

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2009-11-05 Thread David Dean
So what happens if NearMap add more servers, or a server dies, or they change the names? You'd be better off using www and letting NearMap handle the load balancing. - David Bugzilla from deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/11/6 David Dean dd...@ieee.org: You probably should also change

[talk-au] Brisbane Mapping Partys: October + Date Claim for November

2009-09-20 Thread David Dean
Brisbane mappers (and other interested parties), I have arranged two more OpenStreetMap meetups for October and November respectively. The October will be a social pub meet at the Breakfast Creek Hotel on Friday 9th October to try and get together to discuss boring mapping stuff and maybe

Re: [talk-au] Another Brisbane OpenStreetMap Friday meetup in two weeks

2009-08-04 Thread David Dean
be a restaurant around Southbank somewhere. Details here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Brisbane/Mapping_Parties/2009-08 Please pass this message onto anyone you think might be interested. See you then, - David -- David Dean Post-Doctoral Fellow, RP-SAIVT, QUT (me) http://www.davidbdean.com (saivt

Re: [talk-au] Nambour/Sunshine Coast Mapping Party

2009-07-29 Thread David Dean
Ash, I think I'll be going, and I can probably provide a lift. Anyone else in Brisbane interested in sharing a car up to Nambour for this? - David Ashley Kyd-2 wrote: I'm interested in attending and I'd love to carpool, because that's what I do. Just thought I ought to get my expression

Re: [talk-au] Junctions (to name or not to name)

2009-06-29 Thread David Dean
In my experience gosmore doesn't care at all about the names of the streets except for displaying them and searching for them. I've certainly never had a problem with gosmore routing not recognising a roundabout because it was unnamed. If someone can show me an example (a osm map link will do -

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-06-26 Thread David Dean
I've had some success with that device (before mine fell apart) using gpsbabel, details here: http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-development/fmt_mtk.html. I'm not sure if that code is in the stable version of gpsbabel or not yet though. I think I ended up having to use the windows client under wine

Re: [talk-au] Hi all ...

2009-06-21 Thread David Dean
Of course, if the number of kilometres is always the same you could easily work out where the location is anyway by looking at the blank hole in all their traces, helpfully centred on their house. John Smith-129 wrote: It'd be nicer to just have any points within so many km radius of any

Re: [talk-au] Hi all ...

2009-06-21 Thread David Dean
Darrin Smith wrote: If one was really trying to hunt someone down with OSM, a carefull study of their edit history would most likely reveal information about their location anyway. Yes, but long term I can see people using openstreetmap data just for navigation, and having their traces

Re: [talk-au] Brisbane pizza meetup coming up.

2009-06-19 Thread David Dean
Only two weeks to go now! If you know people off-list who are in Brisbane and OpenStreetMappers (or interested), please let them know. - David David Dean wrote: Brisbane mappers, I have arranged a pizza meetup for Friday 3 July at the Pizza Caffe at UQ after work. Come and meet fellow

[talk-au] Brisbane pizza meetup coming up.

2009-06-05 Thread David Dean
Brisbane mappers, I have arranged a pizza meetup for Friday 3 July at the Pizza Caffe at UQ after work. Come and meet fellow OpenStreetMappers and maybe do a little micro-mapping of the UQ campus if you're up to it. Details here:

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2009-02-12 Thread David Dean
Franc, I'd be happy to look at the suburb data for Brisbane. Send it my way. - David Franc Carter-2 wrote: After some nashing of teeth and swearing I have script that converts the ABS data in to a set of non-overlapping ways with some minimal info on the ways. I'd like some

[talk-au] Upcoming (daytime) Brisbane Mapping Party

2009-01-02 Thread David Dean
If there are any Brisbane locals here, please consider attending the third Brisbane mapping party which will be held on Saturday the 7th of February. Unlike the previous two mapping parties, this one will be held in the daylight (whoa!) and will be a little more ambitious as we have more time to

[OSM-talk] Automatic generation of 3D environments from OSM data

2008-11-22 Thread David Dean
Has anybody else here heard of Procedural? They put out a commercial application called CityEngine that can procedurally generate a 3D city from a imported OSM street network. Details here: http://www.worthplaying.com/article.php?sid=57701 and there's an interesting video on using OSM data here:

[talk-au] Brisbane Mapping Party Marathon

2008-09-09 Thread David Dean
Inspired by the London Mapping Party Marathons, I thought it might be fun to get some of the Brisbane area mappers together for a quick (1-2 hrs + drinks) little midweek evening mapping party sometime in October. I think New Farm might be a good place to start as it has some roads missing, but

Re: [OSM-talk] Cycle lanes

2008-03-31 Thread David Dean
Martin Vidner martin.osm at vidner.net writes: Make the prefixes left:, right: special in the sense that when a way is reversed, they get swapped. So left:highway=bus_stop would become right:highway=bus_stop. (Uh, maybe this is awkward for the renderer implementation. Could be better to

[OSM-talk] OSMXAPI returning points outside bounding box

2008-03-17 Thread David Dean
Hi, I seem to be having some problems with a OSMXAPI request that has worked perfectly in the past. In particular, a bunch of extra nodes seem to be collected that are not within the bounding box I specified in the url. I'm using the following command to download the xml file: wget -O

Re: [OSM-talk] Roadnav

2008-01-10 Thread David Dean
Ah, I'm not sure about the searching functionality, I don't think I played with that. If you are trying to position the map without gpsd I think you can edit a configuration file somewhere with your local long/lat. - David On 10/01/2008, Ian Haylock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, David Dean

Re: [OSM-talk] Recent Potlatch changes

2007-12-30 Thread David Dean
being registered. Let me know if you can reproduce it and I'll try and hunt down any bug. cheers Richard ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk -- David Dean PhD Research Student