Re: [talk-au] Australian Rendering

2009-08-03 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Darrin Smith wrote: Not sure what your point here is Liz apart from interesting information? Although it does back up what I was saying about the ABS begin incomplete not having every designated place - I assume Beelbangera doesn't even exist in the ABS data? Still

Re: [talk-au] Cautionary tale for editing ABS ways

2009-08-03 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, James Livingston wrote: So now I get to go and extract the old way from dumps and then re- upload it as a now way. You have been warned. I've left a broken one on western NSW I know where it is, and I'll fix it one day preferably when the server side of things is

[talk-au] road widths in australia

2009-08-03 Diskussionsfäden Liz
just information gathering away from that going-nowhere conversation on main talk (does not deal with any issue concerned with the value of mapping a road width, nor how) After about 1870 roads surveyed to 1 chain width earlier roads, travelling stock routes, main roads and roads forming shire

Re: [talk-au] Bush walking tracks

2009-08-03 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Roy Wallace wrote: On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 9:49 AM, Stephen Hopeslh...@gmail.com wrote: Check the dates on the Wiki pages. The whole highway=path thing is relatively recent - it may well be that the Australian Wiki advice was written before it existed. Maybe. But the

[talk-au] Hema Navigator, On Off Road GPS

2009-08-03 Diskussionsfäden Liz
http://hemanavigator.com.au/ I was looking at getting a wall map of Australia for work and look what I found. Really interesting device. -- You will outgrow your usefulness. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk] tag:amenity=doctor

2009-08-02 Diskussionsfäden Liz
everyone on that list, I thought that which is the preferred tag should be decided. Liz ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] definition of the main highway-tag

2009-08-02 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, Pieren wrote: On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 12:03 PM, James Livingstondoc...@mac.com wrote: If we ignore the Australian tagging guidelines, what should we use for roads that are the same as residential ones but in an industrial area? According to the wiki, unclassified roads

Re: [OSM-talk] tagging roads

2009-08-02 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: --- On Sun, 2/8/09, Blaž Lorger blaz.lor...@triera.net wrote: I also propose extending instructions for road classification to use width tag I agree with everything else you wrote except width since I really don't want to get a tape measure out and

Re: [talk-au] location tagging

2009-08-02 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: Up until recently, that is today, I was tagging regional centres as place=city, however it might be worth while tagging this as place=regional_centre, or tagging them correctly and adding regional_centre=yes Wilkipedia has a list of australian cities, as

Re: [talk-au] Need help wording flyier

2009-08-01 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: I wouldn't consider 3 out of 4 of those I listed as nerdy anyway, take for example this webpage :) http://www.mugsunco.org.au/MUGSUNCO_Welcome.html that lot are older than me! ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Need help wording flyier

2009-08-01 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sat, 1 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: There seems to be quite a few 4wd clubs though, one at Nambour, another at Caloundra and another at Maleny, most only publish snail mail addresses. I doubt we will be able to get round them all by snail mail in time for the meeting, so for these groups

Re: [talk-au] Need help wording flyier

2009-08-01 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: I only just thought of it, but I probably need to include a suitable copyright notice to, as this graphic and other info was a modified version of what others have already done. anything that started off from me is free to use

Re: [talk-au] street sign location

2009-08-01 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, Franc Carter wrote: Hi, As an FYI, in case anyone gets caught out like I did ;-( I was mapping out near Macquarie Feilds today and came across quite a few streets without street names, but then noticed that the street names were on signs that were bolted to the curb,

[talk-au] council street directory

2009-08-01 Diskussionsfäden Liz
My local council has just published a street directory, advertised as more local than your GPS I've found the first mistake already I'm sure the people down the road will be pleased to find their place of business ( a seed business) has been taken over by a church group

Re: [talk-au] Australian Rendering

2009-08-01 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: 've tweaked a few more things, the state names show at the same zoom level as the state capitals, although Queensland isn't showing, most likely because the place node is too close to the coral sea islands place node. move the coral sea islands ;-)

Re: [OSM-talk] definition of the main highway-tag

2009-07-31 Diskussionsfäden Liz
and industrial areas as residential too, even though dwellings are not the prime buildings. Liz ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] maxspeed tagging Was: Best-practice-idea traffic_sign

2009-07-30 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Florian Lohoff wrote: In that one case it's okay. Reason: * There can only be ONE maxspeed on a road. ever! Please add per direction on a road. at a given time. (we have reduced maxspeed in front of schools depending on time, day and whether it is term time)

Re: [talk-au] LCA2010

2009-07-30 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: I had a very early morning check on the website and tried to make a login, then decided that the requirements for application at 0400 were beyond me. I'd have to be able to nut out stuff about the API, which isn't my interest (or ability). Calls for

[talk-au] Fwd: [Osmf-talk] OPENSTREETMAP FOUNDATION - NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

2009-07-29 Diskussionsfäden Liz
-- You may be recognized soon. Hide. To all members of OpenStreetMap Foundation, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the 3rd Annual General Meeting of the OpenStreetMap Foundation will be held at the offices of Cloudmade Ltd, Suite 1.06 Enterprise House, 1/2 Hatfields, London, SE1 9PG, UK. on

Re: [OSM-talk] Old GPS data

2009-07-28 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Simone Cortesi wrote: Does OSM invalidates GPS data after some time? Otherwise, roads continuously changes and after we will have a big cloud of points that don't make any sense. No, it doesn't. GPX tracks stay where they are forever and continue being served by

Re: [OSM-talk] maxheight/height

2009-07-27 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote: I've noticed some people have tagged bridges with height=*, rather than tagging the road way under the bridge as maxheight=* and I'm kind of unsure which is better. the Key:maxheight says it clearly http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:maxheight

Re: [OSM-talk] Business listings

2009-07-27 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Lars Aronsson wrote: Most businesses would register the postal address where they receive mail from tax authorities, not the shop front door. So you would find me, and another hundred businesses, at the one address. It will be an accountants when you arrived at the

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] maxheight/height

2009-07-27 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Roy Wallace wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Stephen Hopeslh...@gmail.com wrote: No, you're wrong here. Maxheight is an element of the way that goes under the bridge. It is caused by the bridge, but it is not part of the bridge. You're saying that the

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] maxheight/height

2009-07-27 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote: Liz schrieb: To return to the bridge the following attributes of the bridge and the road underneath it all need to be considered Height of bridge Height above sea level of the bridge Max height of the arch of the bridge above the roadway

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] maxheight/height

2009-07-27 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Roy Wallace wrote: My main point is that when there is a maximum height under a way, this should be tagged as an attribute of that way, not of the ways that pass under it. Here I cannot agree When I travel over the bridge I am not interested in the maximum height of the

Re: [OSM-talk] Business listings

2009-07-27 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Stephen Hope wrote: And I don't know if the TV company counter appealed at a higher level. They couldn't. The last one ruling was from the High Court. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] maxheight/height

2009-07-27 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Roy Wallace wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:26 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: I think everyone is thinking of this in one of 2 ways, it's either an attribute of the bridge, or a restriction of the way under the bridge. Agreed. And it's clear that both

Re: [OSM-talk] [talk-au] maxheight/height

2009-07-27 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Roy Wallace wrote: By the way, you can't place a node under the bridge, unless it is indeed shared by the bridge, as all ways have zero width (right?). Logically you can as they are on different layers. ___ talk mailing list

Re: [talk-au] maxheight/height

2009-07-27 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Roy Wallace wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Stephen Hopeslh...@gmail.com wrote: No, you're wrong here. Maxheight is an element of the way that goes under the bridge. It is caused by the bridge, but it is not part of the bridge. You're saying that the

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-talk] maxheight/height

2009-07-27 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Dirk-Lüder Kreie wrote: Liz schrieb: To return to the bridge the following attributes of the bridge and the road underneath it all need to be considered Height of bridge Height above sea level of the bridge Max height of the arch of the bridge above the roadway

Re: [talk-au] maxheight/height

2009-07-27 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Roy Wallace wrote: My main point is that when there is a maximum height under a way, this should be tagged as an attribute of that way, not of the ways that pass under it. Here I cannot agree When I travel over the bridge I am not interested in the maximum height of the

[talk-au] multiple use of nodes

2009-07-27 Diskussionsfäden Liz
I have been using nodes for more than one thing, and it isn't supported. So I have been re-using the Post Office node for the town name node, and then the town names don't render. Some of these have been tracked down by other mappers, but I'd be happy to have anyone fix up any more I've done

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-talk] maxheight/height

2009-07-27 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Roy Wallace wrote: On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 12:26 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: I think everyone is thinking of this in one of 2 ways, it's either an attribute of the bridge, or a restriction of the way under the bridge. Agreed. And it's clear that both

Re: [talk-au] maxheight/height

2009-07-27 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, Roy Wallace wrote: By the way, you can't place a node under the bridge, unless it is indeed shared by the bridge, as all ways have zero width (right?). Logically you can as they are on different layers. ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [OSM-talk] amenity=parking, time limit tag?

2009-07-26 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, Jack Stringer wrote: I see a problem wiith this idea. Only because councils change the times/prices reguarly. Often without notice. You can use many supermarket car parks for 2 hours but that could change depening on the seasons. Jack On Jul 26, 2009 7:42 AM, John Smith

[talk-au] industrial tags

2009-07-26 Diskussionsfäden Liz
we don't seem to have industrial landuse tags mine steelworks or agricultural/industry landuse winery silo so should we make up a bumper size list of really_useful tags? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] slightly diff tag watch

2009-07-26 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote: I've updated the site: http://maps.bigtincan.com/tagwatch/ to include both node and relation tags along with the existing way tags, but I haven't figured out how to select a relation in JOSM yet. I see that Ultimo has declared independence Microsoft

Re: [talk-au] Questions: faint and one-way walking tracks

2009-07-25 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sat, 25 Jul 2009, Mark Pulley wrote: You might also note an error in the rendering of the name where the track goes over the top of the dam wall - I have a couple more tweaks to do so I'll fix it then. The NR in the render of the landuse looks odd too

Re: [talk-au] Questions: faint and one-way walking tracks

2009-07-25 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote: Should I be using a different tag for landuse? (I used leisure=nature_reserve - 'park' doesn't sound right - what about 'common'?) Town commons, at least in most parts of northern/north-western NSW, were primarily shared areas people could put their

[talk-au] Heavy Goods Vehicle

2009-07-25 Diskussionsfäden Liz
HGV which only goes as far a semi in size, is the max size truck marked on OSM wiki. Naturally we have bigger trucks and they have route restrictions I've found maps relating to SA here http://www.transport.sa.gov.au/freight/road/vehicle_configuration/road_train.asp and to NSW here

Re: [talk-au] Questions: faint and one-way walking tracks

2009-07-25 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote: --- On Sat, 25/7/09, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: I was really thinking of the trees / forest business like how dare you have forest which doesn't fit neatly into these international classifications? Most commons I know had the trees

Re: [OSM-talk] Do we care if its forest or wood? Natural world mapping ...

2009-07-23 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Tyler wrote: Liz, I would classify most eucalyptus spp. as deciduous (though judging by your genus compositions you're in Australia, and I don't know what the species do there), and probably classify casuarina spp as coniferous... but that's a bad classification system

Re: [OSM-talk] Do we care if its forest or wood? Natural world mapping ...

2009-07-22 Diskussionsfäden Liz
Venn diagram problem. Our trees are neither coniferous or deciduous, and the alternate is mixed Liz living in country covered in mallee, casuarina and occasional eucalypt ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [talk-au] Best linux mapping/routing setup

2009-07-21 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote: --- On Tue, 21/7/09, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: You don't need to download the map tiles (and yes I agree it is not user friendly), if you install from svn as per here: I'll try and build a i386 deb file from this, apart from lack of deb

Re: [talk-au] another use for a GPS

2009-07-21 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote: Pretty sure now would be a good time to exit stage left! *ducks and runs* I think the problem lies with the economists who think that the only state that is good is growth in GDP. If we didn't forever strive for increase in GDP we might be much better off

Re: [talk-au] Best linux mapping/routing setup

2009-07-21 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: database I'm taking mine off it didn't get a fair trial but i'm already adjusted to tangogps and navit apt-get autoremove then removed 26.8MB which on the little machine is a luxury that cannot be afforded

Re: [talk-au] Best linux mapping/routing setup

2009-07-21 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote: When pgsql needs to be installed and all the rest of the mapnik stuff I'm starting to get concerned that there won't be enough space on my eeePC to load the data for gpsdrive. I don't want to buy a 32G sd card just to have mapping. and after all that

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-talk] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-21 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote: The school is in the middle of no where and there is very little mapped so it'll be interesting to see how far they get. 'remote' is agreed ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Best linux mapping/routing setup

2009-07-21 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Ross Scanlon wrote: I know the others like navit are easy to install etc but can you use a digital topo map with them? What happens when you run out of osm coverage? to use a digital topo map with navit you would build it into the garmin format img file and then use that

Re: [talk-au] Best linux mapping/routing setup

2009-07-20 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Ross Scanlon wrote: a couple of years back I did communicate with the devs on IRC once again you'll have to communicate with german speaking people At least with gpsdrive most of us speak english fairly well. gpsdrive currently does not have routing, however the next

Re: [talk-au] Best linux mapping/routing setup

2009-07-20 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Liz wrote: The version is v2.10pre4 how do i get it to use OSM? after a lot of fiddling, and breaking the modem software further, i got the pre7svn installed i managed to download some osm maps but it isn't 'user friendly' i've tried downloading maps at varied scales

Re: [talk-au] dry weather only road

2009-07-18 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, Liz wrote: what did we think was appropriate here? wet_weather_use=no ?? trying this http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Dry_Weather_Road ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [talk-au] 4wd only road

2009-07-18 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote: Australia Tagging Guidelines wiki I just read the 4wd only section below the dry weather only bit, it states: 4WD only track Mark these highway=track; surface=unpaved I would have copied that in off the mailing list from the very early days it needs

[talk-au] brent's bike

2009-07-18 Diskussionsfäden Liz
Brent's bike has serious problems it is underengineered for touring http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Biogenesis_/diary/7104 not enough detail in the photos to see what brand it is ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Best linux mapping/routing setup

2009-07-18 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: you need an alternate map http://maps.navit-project.org/download/ must work with flash, doesn't work in konqueror there is also Rana http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Rana which I haven't tried ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Oodnadatta Track

2009-07-13 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Gordon Smith wrote: 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:

[talk-au] Adopt-an-area

2009-07-12 Diskussionsfäden Liz
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

Re: [talk-au] Adopt-an-area

2009-07-12 Diskussionsfäden Liz
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

Re: [talk-au] Orchards

2009-07-12 Diskussionsfäden Liz
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

Re: [talk-au] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-09 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Thu, 9 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote: I was thinking about refining rivers and marking out local area stuff that normally doesn't appear on most maps, there virtually would be a lot of stuff that could be done in this area. Then you come to your suggestion, technical drawing, and I was

Re: [talk-au] bus routes

2009-07-01 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote: There was a posting on the main talk list today about bus routes... http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-July/038119.html thanks luckily or not, we don't have nay bus pass our place, but apparently there is a bus service in town. it looked

Re: [talk-au] Mini-roundabout archive

2009-07-01 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Ross Scanlon wrote: Not sure on the exact date but about October November 2008. probably late November - it started after that visit i made to adelaide and upset a local ;-) ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Mini-roundabout archive

2009-07-01 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009, Ross Scanlon wrote: On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 13:21:39 +1000 Rick Peterson ausr...@iinet.net.au wrote: Can someone please direct me to the talk-au archive post where the discussion commenced on the topic of mini-roundabouts ? Thanks Rick

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

2009-06-27 Diskussionsfäden Liz
, around a roundabout or down a motorway link, that problem needs addressing too. I name roundabouts which have a name of their own, and leave the others unnamed. Liz ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] General mapping question :)

2009-06-26 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Jason Stirk wrote: I've also run into a few instances quite literally out the back of Bourke... 150Km along the 300Km Wilcannia-Bourke track to see a fence warning it's private property and trespassers will be shot at. It's still the main public road though... and our

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

2009-06-25 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, James Livingston wrote: While I'd prefer that you can't tell exactly where I live, I reckon it would be pretty difficult to stop someone from finding out which suburb I live in. I have deliberately looked to see from where editors come so when i find that someone who

Re: [talk-au] Someone needs some help.

2009-06-25 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Franc Carter wrote: couple of abbreviations that I don't know how to map back in to their full names (e.g QYS). ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Someone needs some help.

2009-06-25 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Franc Carter wrote: couple of abbreviations that I don't know how to map back in to their full names (e.g QYS). Sorry, got carried away with the send button qys as an abbreviation as a word on the end of street name in a coastal town? Quays a google search found Amity

Re: [talk-au] miniround abouts and sunshine council

2009-06-22 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Mon, 22 Jun 2009, John Smith wrote: Pic I took earlier... where's the sunshine? just get them to send that wet stuff my way, we will accept it gladly ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Picnic Tables

2009-06-22 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, John Smith wrote: --- On Sat, 20/6/09, Cameron osm-mailing-li...@justcameron.com wrote: I think somewhere on the OSM wiki it says that there are no official osm tags, just conventions which are followed. So jump in and create your own tags and edit the wiki as you see

Re: [talk-au] anonymising GPX files

2009-06-21 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009, John Smith wrote: --- On Sat, 20/6/09, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: I've got some perl and shell scripts that do this for other things but not for gpsbabel. As I said, I haven't been able to work out the format gpsbabel requires the polygon, and there doesn't

Re: [talk-au] anonymising GPX files

2009-06-21 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Liz wrote: On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Liz wrote: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/JOSM/Plugins/EditGpx I've just downloaded this but haven't tried it yet tried on a small gpx file- today's - and happy with this but its not acceptable to the osm server with the timestamps

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

2009-06-18 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: JOSM and mercaator(sp?) are more sophisticated eg do proper Mercator is a projection, how to turn a sphere like object into a flat one Merkaator is the program the writer was trying to recall. ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Newbie - Landuse and Administrative Boundary

2009-06-17 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Rick Peterson wrote: Hi Folks, I’m a newcomer to the OSM project with a couple of questions. BACKGROUND: Welcome Rick. Perhaps if we give the history of the changes you will understand how the boundaries work. In the beginning was the void. On the first day some

Re: [talk-au] How to map out streets the most efficently

2009-06-15 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: Now does anyone have suggestions on how to basically drive the entire town the most efficiently with the minimal amount of overlap, or how does one plan such a feat. It depends if they are set out in rectangular bocks or wiggles rectangular blocks -

Re: [talk-au] How to map out streets the most efficently

2009-06-15 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: Thoughts, hints and tips will be appreciated. Personally I'd concentrate on doing one or two on the journey up and one or two on the journey back. One large and one small? ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] How to map out streets the most efficently

2009-06-15 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: I've been playing around lately on the best way to store street name info and voice recording notes seems to win hands down because it is easier/quicker, especially when doing it by yourself. You don't have to stop or fumble with devices, you just talk

Re: [talk-au] SA/Vic border

2009-06-14 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: Does anyone know the exact latitude of the SA/Vic border? I've only seen rough estimates of 3.6km west of 141 degrees east. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Petition to MP

2009-06-14 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: I'm just wondering, nothing came up on google when searching, if there is any example letters floating about petitioning MPs for access to federal data and making it public domain. The reason I ask is the electorate, both state and federal, I'm in is

Re: [talk-au] Mass realignment of roads? (was Mapping things by importance)

2009-06-12 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: I've come to the realisation that every road (and everything that was placed in reference to the roads) in the suburb where I live is out by about 8-10m. Much of Brisbane's road system seems to have been traced off the Yahoo imagery, apparently

[talk-au] Old maps

2009-06-09 Diskussionsfäden Liz
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Obtaining_old_maps this page has been marked by someone from the phillipines as being out of date Three links for NSW Dept of Lands stuff are now broken. Can anyone find better links and put them in However, i think that This article or section contains

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-06-08 Diskussionsfäden Liz
600km to cover 4 different towns, concentrating on town roads and names, then points of interest. It is raining :-) cold and bleak and not really bicycle weather this long weekend Liz ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http

Re: [talk-au] Canberra mapping party.

2009-06-08 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Nick Hocking wrote: I'll be conducting a one man, mini mapping frenzy, around the Hervey Bay area, whilst trying to avoid 1) Swine Flu 2) Dengue Fever 3) Getting drowned by the floods hell, it's getting really hard to take a holiday these days I've got a new

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-05-30 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sat, 30 May 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: It's fairly blank at present in most rural areas I've seen, there is the odd town mapped out and I've been helping where I can, but in my opinion it's much more important getting the street/road data before anything else will really matter. We started

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-05-27 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Wed, 27 May 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: Thanks for the tips that everyone replied with, will give me something to swat up on. I've looked through a few devices on ebay but while they logged a large number of points, some had a 5 second refresh which is a little too high, 1 second per point

Re: [talk-au] Causeways

2009-05-25 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Mon, 25 May 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: Wikipedia has 2 distinct entries, a ford is something close to the usual concrete slab I'm thinking/refering to, the US version of a causeway looks like a built up piece of land acting like a low bridge, although they do seem to have a Western

Re: [talk-au] Causeways

2009-05-25 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Mon, 25 May 2009, Mark Pulley wrote: Wikipedia also has http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_water_crossing - this is what I have been thinking of as 'causeway'. Do we need a new setting highway=low_water_crossing ? ford should do that OK. We have an interesting language problem in

Re: [talk-au] Causeways

2009-05-25 Diskussionsfäden Liz
- if the creek had water it would be wet?? Liz ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Rivers

2009-05-22 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Wed, 20 May 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: I tried JOSM briefly the other day but the entire background was black and made it harder to use than potlatch. All of that is completely configurable - all the colours can be changed and a heap of other stuff. Potlatch makes it hard to do some things

Re: [talk-au] Rivers

2009-05-22 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Fri, 22 May 2009, Ross Scanlon wrote: and no, we don't have mini-roundabouts in australia, they are all roundabouts. Agree totally Liz but I did find one that matched the description in the wiki. did it have a blue sign with white circulating arrows? (rhetorical question

[talk-au] Photographers face wider anti terror curbs news

2009-05-14 Diskussionsfäden Liz
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.uk/news/Photographers_face_wider_anti_terror_curbs_news_281398.html From a UK site, where they are reporting on training civilians to keep a watch on 'hostile reconnaissance'. This urges people to look out for 'overt/covert photography' as well as those in

Re: [talk-au] Copyright ruling on compiled lists

2009-05-01 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Fri, 1 May 2009, mattwh...@iinet.net.au wrote: While this may not change to much in AU for OSM, it's still an interesting ruling - particuarly the possible future review of the Telstra v Desktop Marketing decision. IceTV won their appeal against Channel 9 over the reuse of 9's TV guide.

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-27 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Liz wrote: 1433 nodes split it into 600+ and 700+, still couldn't upload the change. I wait on the bug report - someone has another problem with relations and they may be related problems Merkaartor let me bypass the problem and split the way however, now one length has

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-27 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Darrin Smith wrote: I'm working on 2 relations like this on KI that sound like they are having the same kind of issue. ANY edit of any form to the relation would cause an error - EXCEPT deleting I eventually tried on one of them. So I've just kept a copy of all the details

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-26 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Franc Carter wrote: Hmm, one thing that I forgot to check is the number of nodes in the ways - I seem to remember that 0.6 was going to introduce a limit on this . . . . cheers The limit is 2000, and the involved way

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Substantial meaning

2009-04-25 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, SteveC wrote: Has there been any discussion on what people here feel 'substantial' means in the context of the definitions of the ODbL? I've banged around the wiki looking but might might have missed it. Here's the first important bit relevant to this in the ODbL:

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-25 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Liz wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Franc Carter wrote: 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

Re: [talk-au] Routable OSM Garmin maps

2009-04-21 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008, Matt White wrote: I've created my first set of routable OSM maps for Garmin devices. For those of you with such a device, have a go at downloading the IMG files and see how the routing works. The routing is fairly new for the mkgmap application, and will probably improve

[talk-au] Buronga-Mildura Road???

2009-04-20 Diskussionsfäden Liz
collected at the motel calls it Benetook Avenue. I'm sure that the mapper , who I have identified, will have some evidence, like a geo-tagged photo, to post a link to, so that they can justify the name change (NOT) Please guys, stop copying Google Maps Especially when you are copying rubbish. Liz

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-19 Diskussionsfäden Liz
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Darrin Smith wrote: Know that feeling, I have several days of Easter holiday traces to go in also. *twiddles*thumbs* we were just catching up from December in our house, now the days are shorter, and have stuff waiting for upload more thumb twiddling

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