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

2009-08-16 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

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

2009-08-16 Thread John Smith
Also they talk about only adding ref's to relations that have the entire highway. The other reason to use relations instead of tagging individual sections of ways is consistency, a lot of highways are badly or inconsistently tagged, if all the ways are part of the same highway they will be

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

2009-08-16 Thread Liz
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: Also they talk about only adding ref's to relations that have the entire highway. The other reason to use relations instead of tagging individual sections of ways is consistency, a lot of highways are badly or inconsistently tagged, if all the ways

[talk-au] New bridge + 6km of road

2009-08-16 Thread John Smith
Must have been a really really slow news day, but they just had the opening of a new bridge + 6km of road across the ward river on TV. http://www.optuszoo.com.au/regional_news/4264/westqld/new-bridge-will-improve-town-s-wet-season-access.html Anyone likely to be going this way?

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

2009-08-16 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: It might be good to put the name and the ref in different relations, for example, A1 continues past Carins, but it changes name from the Bruce Highway to the Captain Cook Highway. that I did see in May In this example there would be 3 relations, 1 for

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

2009-08-16 Thread John Smith
--- On Sun, 16/8/09, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: would you break the relations at State borders or not? I have been for the ref=* relation because I'm adding addr:country=Australia, addr:state=QLD so that different state sheilds can be displayed different. I didn't really think

Re: [talk-au] New bridge + 6km of road

2009-08-16 Thread Liz
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: Must have been a really really slow news day, but they just had the opening of a new bridge + 6km of road across the ward river on TV. http://www.optuszoo.com.au/regional_news/4264/westqld/new-bridge-will-impro ve-town-s-wet-season-access.html Anyone

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

2009-08-16 Thread John Smith
This is the current relation tags I've come up with based on the talk-us threads. Ref Relation tags: addr:country=Australia addr:state=QLD network=A ref=1 route=road type=route Name Relation tags: name=Bruce Highway route=road type=route

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

2009-08-16 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: would you break the relations at State borders or not? I have been for the ref=* relation because I'm adding addr:country=Australia, addr:state=QLD so that different state shields can be displayed differently. OK, a reason to split - I couldn't think of

[talk-au] Amenities tags

2009-08-16 Thread Liz
I've started putting in complete sets of POIs in some small areas. So I've just marked up the amenities with whatever seemed appropriate at the time if there was no tag i used workshop for an engineering workshop masseur for the massage clinic (not the other sort) dental_technician for the

Re: [talk-au] Amenities tags

2009-08-16 Thread John Smith
--- On Sun, 16/8/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: I'd like to draw your attention to this guys suggested organisation of amenity http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Amenity_Reoganization Good idea, and like others it won't get past the current stalemate with the way things are

Re: [talk-au] Amenities tags

2009-08-16 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: --- On Sun, 16/8/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: I'd like to draw your attention to this guys suggested organisation of amenity http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Amenity_Reoganization Good idea, and like others it won't get past the

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

2009-08-16 Thread John Smith
--- On Sun, 16/8/09, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: OK, a reason to split - I couldn't think of any reason either way The Savannah Way goes from QLD to WA, it's one route and I can't think of a good reason to split it. There is a system limitation of 1000 ways per relation, the

Re: [talk-au] Search function on Garmin GPS units

2009-08-16 Thread cam_daw
Yes! Indeed there is an issue with this. I hadn't searched for cities before on my Garmin unit :P Ok, I havn't done that much of a comparison of OSM town name POI tags, and what the Garmin unit's find cities tool brings up. But there's a small chance it could be the is_in tag (not

[talk-au] Townsville has hi-res sat imagery

2009-08-16 Thread John Smith
I just marked out the area around Townsville covered by hi-res sat imagery. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 26, Issue 49 - Routing problem

2009-08-16 Thread Denise or Gavin
Okay, So I followed the instructions about contructing the GMAPSUPP.IMG file - no problem. On the gps I press the Find key and select Adresses, start entering in the street name, which the unit finds and I select then scroll to the Enter City box Enter and this brings up all the Cities - but

[talk-au] Hi, a noob starts some mapping.

2009-08-16 Thread Lindley Bowers
Hello all, drlizau invited me to this mailing list, so I thought I'd say hi. I'm mapping under the name Brentyn. Since discovering both Trails and the gps on my iPhone, I thought I'd do a little mapping around the Toowoomba area near where I live. I've never had anything to do with mapping, gps

Re: [talk-au] List of potential datasources

2009-08-16 Thread John Smith
--- On Mon, 17/8/09, Ben Kelley ben.kel...@gmail.com wrote: I guess the problems with this would be: * Duplication with public toilets that are already marked Only import toilets where there is no node=amenity within 250-500m, throw them into an exceptions file for manual

Re: [talk-au] Hi, a noob starts some mapping.

2009-08-16 Thread John Smith
--- On Mon, 17/8/09, Lindley Bowers lindleybow...@gmail.com wrote: drlizau invited me to this mailing list, so I thought I'd say hi. I'm mapping under the name Brentyn. Welcome to the list :) Since discovering both Trails and the gps on my iPhone, I thought I'd do a little mapping around

[talk-au] More hi-res sat imagery

2009-08-16 Thread John Smith
I just noticed Rockhampton also has hi-res imagery available. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Hi, a noob starts some mapping.

2009-08-16 Thread Ross Scanlon
that if the median break only allows turning into a road, no U-turn or only turning from one direction that some kind of relation needs to be constructed but relations are beyond me for now. This would be a restriction relation, not just a tag, I've never tagged one of these so I

Re: [talk-au] More hi-res sat imagery

2009-08-16 Thread Ross Scanlon
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 02:06:28 + (GMT) John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: I just noticed Rockhampton also has hi-res imagery available. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

[talk-au] maps.bigtincan.com

2009-08-16 Thread Ross Scanlon
Is this still working? I get connection refused when attempting to contact ... errors. When I attempt to connect to maps.bigtincan.com or maps.bigtincan.com/tagwatch/ -- Cheers Ross ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

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

2009-08-16 Thread BlueMM
John Smith-129 wrote: This is the current relation tags I've come up with based on the talk-us threads. Ref Relation tags: addr:country=Australia addr:state=QLD network=A ref=1 route=road type=route Name Relation tags: name=Bruce Highway route=road type=route Nice work

Re: [talk-au] More hi-res sat imagery

2009-08-16 Thread John Smith
--- On Mon, 17/8/09, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: Don't forget to georeference the imagery if you are going to trace items. I noticed some of the traces in the Nambour area weren't properly sourced, a fair bit has been redone from survey now as well, but I usually do. Also there

Re: [talk-au] maps.bigtincan.com

2009-08-16 Thread John Smith
--- On Mon, 17/8/09, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: Is this still working? I get connection refused when attempting to contact ... errors. When I attempt to connect to maps.bigtincan.com or maps.bigtincan.com/tagwatch/ Unfortunately it's down at the moment, we had to restart it

Re: [talk-au] Hi, a noob starts some mapping.

2009-08-16 Thread Ross Scanlon
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009 05:29:46 + (GMT) John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Mon, 17/8/09, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: If there was no u-turn permitted then you would have to use a relation to indicate that. That's what I was talking about :) Yes but some do

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

2009-08-16 Thread John Smith
--- On Mon, 17/8/09, BlueMM bluemm1975-...@yahoo.com wrote: A few questions: 1. I presume the addr:country=Australia is manditory for this to work, but :state optional? I could imagine only needing state for state specific sheilds (ie. nationally consistent ones wouldn't need state). The