Delta Foxtrot delta_foxt...@yahoo.com
I recently started adding data to OSM,
Welcome.
but one thing that caused me
a little confusion was the fact that one of the towns I was mapping
round has a river running through it, but there is no river plotted
on the map, and now that I think about
--- On Tue, 19/5/09, Ian Sergeant iserg...@hih.com.au wrote:
Waterways should be mapped Sometimes
landsat or yahoo imagery can help.
What's the url for landsat or how do I make use of it, yahoo images are pretty
course in rural areas from what I've seen so far.
Sometime the ABS
Delta Foxtrot delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote:
What's the url for landsat or how do I make use of it, yahoo images
are pretty course in rural areas from what I've seen so far.
They are. I guess this is one of the reasons why your waterway hasn't been
mapped.
If you are using potlatch, then the
So what is the problem you are having, if not with the
location or the tag?
Making a river look like a river...
Put more nodes in the way that shows the river. Had a look at what you
have done but given the lack of hi-res images from yahoo there is not much
else that can be done.
Welcome
--- On Tue, 19/5/09, Ian Sergeant iserg...@hih.com.au wrote:
You may want to consider JOSM. It allows you to lock
the imagery scale at
the best available, and then zoom in. Sometimes that
makes things easier,
and I'm not sure if potlatch can do that. Still, I
would have thought that
Delta Foxtrot delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote:
I'm curious as to why yahoo sat images can be used and google ones can't?
Yahoo have sent an OSM contributor an email, confirming that their imagery
is okay for use in the way OSM uses it.
Google have not given their permission, and have given
--- On Tue, 19/5/09, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote:
The source tag is part of the OSM data not part of the GPS
information,
have a look at the source tag on Glen Innes Road.
I thought information could be included in the GPX files that would be imported
by something, JOSM or OSM
--- On Tue, 19/5/09, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote:
The source tag is part of the OSM data not part of the GPS
information,
have a look at the source tag on Glen Innes Road.
I thought information could be included in the GPX files that would be
imported by something, JOSM or OSM
--- On Wed, 20/5/09, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote:
AFAIK it is only lat, long and elevation data. How
did you enter the name
and surface tags for the ways. The source tag is the
same.
GPX files can contain a lot of data and meta data, the schema for GPX 1.1 can
be found here:
--- On Tue, 19/5/09, Ian Sergeant iserg...@hih.com.au wrote:
I would leave the river running down the centre, and mark
the lake area
polygons with natural=water. You can also
use waterway=riverbank to draw
a wider river. See how other people have tagged other
rivers.
Just looking at,
Delta Foxtrot delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote on 20/05/2009 03:36:26 PM:
Just looking at, I think, the Clarence river near Grafton:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-29.6174
lon=152.9053zoom=14layers=B000FTF
The river banks are listed as natural=coastline
Which is the better/correct way to
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