Re: [talk-au] Nambour mapping party that was held today

2009-08-15 Thread John Smith
I just found this, someone proposed a railway=minature, but never followed up with having it voted on. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Miniature_railway ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.opens

Re: [talk-au] Nambour mapping party that was held today

2009-08-15 Thread John Smith
--- On Sun, 16/8/09, Jeff Price wrote: > Alternatively if the area is > named "model railway" and tagged recreation/hobby, > and the rail route just marked as a recreation track?  > I was thinking along similar lines as the remote controlled > race car track question yesterday/today. I've been r

Re: [talk-au] Nambour mapping party that was held today

2009-08-15 Thread Jeff Price
Alternatively if the area is named "model railway" and tagged recreation/hobby, and the rail route just marked as a recreation track? I was thinking along similar lines as the remote controlled race car track question yesterday/today. From: John Smith To: ta

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 26, Issue 48

2009-08-15 Thread b . schulz . 10
I've had the same issue. When searching for cities or suburbs it will come up with results such as "Newcastle, VIC" "Newtown, VIC" etc. I just switched on my Legend HCx and did a search for nearest cities. Currently I'm in Lismore and despite most of the results being in NSW it still came up wi

Re: [talk-au] Highway page and Aus tagging guidelines page is inconsistent

2009-08-15 Thread Luke Woolley
I go by the http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines Australian Tagging Guidelines which I edited a while back to say that for alphanumeric routes, motorway = m (if it's freeway conditions), trunk = m (if it's dual carraigeway but not freeway conditions for example

Re: [talk-au] Nambour mapping party that was held today

2009-08-15 Thread John Smith
--- On Sun, 16/8/09, Jeff Price wrote: > There is a narrow-gauge tag > which I used for the Big Pineapple railway.  Maybe > that's a better one? Took me a bit, but I found another minature railway line traced, it's in the UK and they used railway=narrow_guage http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 26, Issue 48

2009-08-15 Thread cam_daw
On Sun, 2009-08-16 at 09:20 +0700, Denise or Gavin wrote: I have downloaded the NSW routable map from http://www.osmaustralia.org/garminroute.php only to find most addresses in my GPS 6ocsx assigned the state of Vic - when they should be NSW. > > Any reason for this? > > I've just downloaded the r

Re: [talk-au] Nambour mapping party that was held today

2009-08-15 Thread John Smith
--- On Sun, 16/8/09, Jeff Price wrote: > There is a narrow-gauge tag > which I used for the Big Pineapple railway.  Maybe > that's a better one? That's still twice the width or more of this model railway track: http://scrms.org.au/ I've seen another one like it in Casino, NSW ___

[talk-au] Routable map displaying incorrect states

2009-08-15 Thread Denise or Gavin
I have downloaded the NSW routable map from http://www.osmaustralia.org/garminroute.php only to find most addresses in my GPS 6ocsx assigned the state of Vic - when they should be NSW. Any reason for this? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.o

Re: [talk-au] Highway page and Aus tagging guidelines page is inconsistent

2009-08-15 Thread Liz
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, James Livingston wrote: > Hi all, > > While looking at the wiki page describing the highway tag[0] recently, > I noticed that the Australian entry in "International Equivalence" > doesn't match what is on the Australian Tagging Guidelines page, and > what actually gets mapped.

[talk-au] Highway page and Aus tagging guidelines page is inconsistent

2009-08-15 Thread James Livingston
Hi all, While looking at the wiki page describing the highway tag[0] recently, I noticed that the Australian entry in "International Equivalence" doesn't match what is on the Australian Tagging Guidelines page, and what actually gets mapped. For example it says that in states with MABC clas

Re: [talk-au] Nambour mapping party that was held today

2009-08-15 Thread Jeff Price
There is a narrow-gauge tag which I used for the Big Pineapple railway. Maybe that's a better one? From: John Smith To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Sent: Saturday, 15 August, 2009 8:07:31 PM Subject: [talk-au] Nambour mapping party that was held today We had a

Re: [talk-au] Nambour mapping party that was held today

2009-08-15 Thread Jeff Price
Good to meet some fellow mappers. We arrived back about 3:30 and left about 4:15. Spent the time in Macca's showing Neek how to use Potlatch and start adding some of the bits we marked out (yesterday was her first OSM/GPS experience). Neek will be using this towards a Scout badge activity so

Re: [talk-au] I've been trying to fix the highway shields and came across this....

2009-08-15 Thread John Smith
> Also they talk about only adding ref's to relations that > have the entire highway. I've been playing about with this marking a tourist route and this makes a lot of sense. When highways and/or tourist routes share the same physical piece of road you can have each with it's own relation route,

Re: [talk-au] Nambour mapping party that was held today

2009-08-15 Thread Liz
On Sat, 15 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: > We had a pretty good turn out today of 7 people, include 2 geocachers that > were introduced to OSM. > > Additionally a person came over to talk to us while we were trying to > figure out a plan of attack at mcdonalds, they took a copy of the walking > paper

Re: [talk-au] List of potential datasources

2009-08-15 Thread James Livingston
On 13/08/2009, at 11:18 PM, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: > If anybody knows any federal government datasources that would be > useful, the Government 2.0 taskforce is looking for data sources that > the community would find useful but currently aren't available for > technical reasons [1]. This wi

[talk-au] Nambour mapping party that was held today

2009-08-15 Thread John Smith
We had a pretty good turn out today of 7 people, include 2 geocachers that were introduced to OSM. Additionally a person came over to talk to us while we were trying to figure out a plan of attack at mcdonalds, they took a copy of the walking paper print out I had made and they seemed intereste

Re: [talk-au] Tagging help

2009-08-15 Thread John Smith
--- On Sat, 15/8/09, Andy Owen wrote: You can use tagwatch to see what others have done: http://tagwatch.stoecker.eu/Australia-oceania/En/tags.html http://maps.bigtincan.com/tagwatch/ > 1) A dog training area. The best I can see is: > sport=dog_training > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Prop

Re: [talk-au] I've been trying to fix the highway shields and came across this....

2009-08-15 Thread John Smith
--- On Sat, 15/8/09, Liz wrote: > ref=NH56 > is one tag trying to do two things > > so i agree with Ben's general assertion that they should be > split into network > and reference The only issue is someone is proposing network=* for a completely different purpose: http://wiki.openstreetmap.

[talk-au] Tagging help

2009-08-15 Thread Andy Owen
Hi all, if anyone could give me some assistance with a few tags that would be great. I'm trying to get St Ives showground mapped ( http://osm.org/go/uYqBCJiO6- ). I can do about 45 minutes of wandering around there every few weeks, so it is slowly getting better. There are a couple of things it ha