Re: [talk-au] What gives with roundabouts?

2008-12-17 Thread Sam Couter
Sean <4ey0ll...@sneakemail.com> wrote: > program or device will still display the way as a roundabout that the > user will still understand what it is even if the roundabout tag is removed. The user may understand, but the device won't if there are no tags. However I see below that I've been mis

Re: [talk-au] National Park & Marine Park boundaries

2008-12-17 Thread Liz
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Matt White wrote: > How are people mapping National Park (or state forest or other > government mandated areas)? It seems that in a lot of cases, there is no > way of actually doing an on the ground survey - a lot of the boundaries > aren't marked, the areas can be massively in

Re: [talk-au] What gives with roundabouts?

2008-12-17 Thread Sean
Sam Couter sam-at-couter.id.au |OSM list| wrote: > Sean <4ey0ll...@sneakemail.com> wrote: > >> I never said I was mapping for a particular program or device. Garmin >> was just an example. I'm mapping for all programs and devices. As all >> programs or devices can render a loop way it just

Re: [talk-au] National Park & Marine Park boundaries

2008-12-17 Thread Matt White
b.schulz...@scu.edu.au wrote: > As it stands this hasn't really been addressed. Generally I just mark > what's on the ground, ie the natural=wood boundary as this tends to > give a reasonable indication of the national park boundary anyway. > Obviously this has limits, but unless some government

Re: [talk-au] National Park & Marine Park boundaries

2008-12-17 Thread b . schulz . 10
As it stands this hasn't really been addressed. Generally I just mark what's on the ground, ie the natural=wood boundary as this tends to give a reasonable indication of the national park boundary anyway. Obviously this has limits, but unless some government authority grants us use of their maps

[talk-au] National Park & Marine Park boundaries

2008-12-17 Thread Matt White
How are people mapping National Park (or state forest or other government mandated areas)? It seems that in a lot of cases, there is no way of actually doing an on the ground survey - a lot of the boundaries aren't marked, the areas can be massively inaccessible etc. Add to that things like mar

Re: [talk-au] Wild guess surveying

2008-12-17 Thread Liz
On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Sam Couter wrote: > > A straight line between two places is better than no line. > > A straight line is at least topographically correct, which for road > navigation is incredibly useful. > -- *If* the ways are actually connected. While this list recently looked at Geelong and

Re: [talk-au] What gives with roundabouts?

2008-12-17 Thread Liz
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Ian Sergeant wrote: > (Although I think > people arguing against overloading tags have a bigger campaign on their > hands than just mini-roundabouts.) The highway reference tag has two things in the one tag - the highway type and the highway number. Then the double naming o

Re: [talk-au] What gives with roundabouts?

2008-12-17 Thread Liz
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, Ian Sergeant wrote: > The primary questions here is: > > > > My position is a node for three reasons.. or something like a josm plugin which would turn a node into a little way with 4 nodes, on demand? > > + When you cross this kind of roundabout when cycling, or with a lear

Re: [talk-au] Some Photos

2008-12-17 Thread Liz
On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Darrin Smith wrote: > Here's a pic of one of those near-mini's I spotted in Gascoyne Avenue, > Hillcrest, I think they to fulfill every criteria of Liz's defintion > except for the different signage (in the first pic you can see the > bottom of the standard sign there). > > htt

Re: [talk-au] What gives with roundabouts?

2008-12-17 Thread Liz
On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, bluemm1975-...@yahoo.com wrote: > It says that normal pedestrian islands aren't meant to be drawn as two > separate ways (flares). I the pedestrian islands are *splitter islands* just being pedantic the flare is used to describe the flared direction of the incoming traffic w