Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] How to tag giant acorn?

2009-08-27 Thread John Smith
2009/8/28 Cosmic Charade : > I use Ubuntu with xfce so a similar setup but it runs like a dog on mine > for some reason maybe I installed the wrong version of Java or I > need to run with some command line options? I don't know if this is relevent to you or not, but unlike Ubuntu, Debian has

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] How to tag giant acorn?

2009-08-27 Thread John Smith
2009/8/28 Sam Couter : > Atom is Intel's poor attempt at a low-power CPU, intended for embedded > devices. They're sick of ARM kicking their arse in that market. It runs > the same x86 instruction set as modern Intel laptop/desktop chips. Fair enough, I just checked and the eeePC I have has a cele

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] How to tag giant acorn?

2009-08-27 Thread Cosmic Charade
Sam Couter wrote: > Atom is Intel's poor attempt at a low-power CPU, intended for embedded > devices. They're sick of ARM kicking their arse in that market. It runs > the same x86 instruction set as modern Intel laptop/desktop chips. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Atom > Works fine for m

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] How to tag giant acorn?

2009-08-27 Thread Sam Couter
John Smith wrote: > Also the OP said something about Atom CPU? I've no idea how that compares to > intel chips. Atom is Intel's poor attempt at a low-power CPU, intended for embedded devices. They're sick of ARM kicking their arse in that market. It runs the same x86 instruction set as modern In

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] How to tag giant acorn?

2009-08-27 Thread Evan Sebire
Overall it has less features than JOSM but is still very powerful. I have only used JOSM less than 10 times and each time I end up thinking Java is never going to replace C++ for graphical things. This means placement of nodes, drawing of road/paths is better in Merkaartor, and it's interface

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] How to tag giant acorn?

2009-08-27 Thread Cosmic Charade
I have merkaartor - does this have similar capaiblity to JOSM? How have you found it? Evan Sebire wrote: I use Merkaartor on my laptop and are happy with the speed. Its a C++ app so appears more responsive than JOSM on my laptop. http://www.merkaartor.org/ There are packages for ubuntu or

Re: [talk-au] no left turn

2009-08-27 Thread Greg Harper
It doesn't look like the No Left Turn was ever added: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-33.74503&lon=151.06115&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF 2009/8/27 Liz > http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/27/2668014.htm > > did anyone map this on OSM? > > ___ T

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] How to tag giant acorn?

2009-08-27 Thread John Smith
--- On Thu, 27/8/09, Sam Couter wrote: > My laptop is lower powered than yours and JOSM works okay. > You need the > Sun JRE, it won't work with OpenJDK. The only command line > options I use > are to set the HTTP proxy. I run JOSM on my eeePC just fine, it's underclocked because it's only a 7"

[talk-au] no left turn

2009-08-27 Thread Liz
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/27/2668014.htm did anyone map this on OSM? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] How to tag giant acorn?

2009-08-27 Thread Evan Sebire
I use Merkaartor on my laptop and are happy with the speed. Its a C++ app so appears more responsive than JOSM on my laptop. http://www.merkaartor.org/ There are packages for ubuntu or you can compile from source if you have the Qt libraries installed. Evan On Thursday 27 Aug 2009 11:00:29

Re: [talk-au] Navteq mapping AU

2009-08-27 Thread Sam Couter
James Livingston wrote: > That reminds me of something I was wishing for a couple of months ago, > trying to find a rental place after moving to Brisbane - one of those > web sites that made better use of geodata. Some of the good ones will > shop you a map with a house icon for each propert

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] How to tag giant acorn?

2009-08-27 Thread Sam Couter
Cosmic Charade wrote: > I use Ubuntu with xfce so a similar setup but it runs like a dog on > mine for some reason maybe I installed the wrong version of Java > or I need to run with some command line options? My laptop is lower powered than yours and JOSM works okay. You need the Sun JRE, it