[talk-au] A possible way to promote OSM

2009-07-08 Thread John Smith
Tracing rivers and such on OSM gave me an idea for a possible way to promote OSM, geography students. I mean what better way to teach kids about geography than doing a little cartography :) ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Street Abbv. patch for validator plugin

2009-07-08 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 8/7/09, Sam Couter wrote: > Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I > know, > I'll use regular expressions."  Now they have two > problems. >   -- Jamie Zawinski in comp.emacs.xemacs The regex functionality was already in place, all I was trying to do was come up with

Re: [talk-au] Street Abbv. patch for validator plugin

2009-07-08 Thread Sam Couter
John Smith wrote: > Java flavoured, and I'm not talking about tasting coffee here :) Java regexes are almost Perl-compatible regexes (PCRE). > You are probably correct, it's taken me a number of years to get my head > round regex for the amount I dabble in at present, and I have no idea which

Re: [talk-au] Copyright and maps produced by states

2009-07-08 Thread John Smith
> Can anyone tell me when it comes to things like maps > produced by various states, what ending year should I be > looking at? To answer my own question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_copyright_law#Government-owned_copyright 50 years from the end of the first year published.

[talk-au] Copyright and maps produced by states

2009-07-08 Thread John Smith
Can anyone tell me when it comes to things like maps produced by various states, what ending year should I be looking at? For example a quick search of nla.gov.au brings up maps for various years for the King State Forest near Gympie in QLD. http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=auth

Re: [talk-au] Street Abbv. patch for validator plugin

2009-07-08 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 7/7/09, Rick Peterson wrote: > I usually err on caution's side and run with the  > tested version of this > kind of fast developing software, however I'm keen to make > use of all > the new features and work everyone has been putting in. I was hoping some more of my patches would