[talk-au] Navit

2009-09-27 Thread edodd
this might just be a silly / basic question how does one tell Navit to allow one to drive on the motorway? I double checked, its set to car, not to horse cycle or pedestrian, and it won't send me along a motorway or is this a problem with au data?? Liz who luckily knew the way because it would

Re: [talk-au] Navit

2009-09-27 Thread Franc Carter
Interesting, It puts me on motorways all the time (sometimes it would be nice to have more choice). Have you checked the oneways etc. Have you got a permalink to a problematic road cheers On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:26 PM, wrote: > this might just be a silly / basic question > > how does one tell

Re: [talk-au] Our own satellite imagery?

2009-09-27 Thread John Smith
I just thought of another way to potentially cover the start up costs, get sponsors to advertise on the sides, if a UAV blimp is buzzing about at 130m it's bound to get a lot of attention. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.o

Re: [talk-au] Our own satellite imagery?

2009-09-27 Thread John Smith
Just found this video, HD camera mounted to a blimp and it gives you some examples of metres per pixel at various heights, up to 318m. It doesn't appear that they are using a fish eye lense, so at a guess you might be able to get a similar scope from 150m as you do from 300m.

Re: [talk-au] Our own satellite imagery?

2009-09-27 Thread John Smith
2009/9/27 John Smith : > Just found this video, HD camera mounted to a blimp and it gives you > some examples of metres per pixel at various heights, up to 318m. > > It doesn't appear that they are using a fish eye lense, so at a guess > you might be able to get a similar scope from 150m as you do

Re: [talk-au] Navit

2009-09-27 Thread edodd
> Interesting, It puts me on motorways all the time (sometimes it would be > nice to > have more choice). Have you checked the oneways etc. Have you got a > permalink > to a problematic road > > cheers > > 150km of Hume Highway and a few km in wollongong same thing motorway > sends me to go down fi

Re: [talk-au] Navit

2009-09-27 Thread edodd
> I tried a few random points on the Hume and on the way down to wollongong and > 'it works for me' ;-( > > I'm using a recentish svn version and one of John's recentish > Australia.bin > files > > cheers > i've got a very recent (yesterday) bin file from John, but I'll try the upgrade from svn I'

Re: [talk-au] Navit

2009-09-27 Thread edodd
>> I tried a few random points on the Hume and on the way down to > wollongong and >> 'it works for me' ;-( >> >> I'm using a recentish svn version and one of John's recentish >> Australia.bin >> files >> >> cheers >> > > i've got a very recent (yesterday) bin file from John, but I'll try the > upg

Re: [talk-au] ABS Data (was Re: More on the survey tag)

2009-09-27 Thread terryc
John Smith wrote: > 2009/9/27 terryc : >> The problem is that everything the government says and does has legal >> implications. so the information they publish has to be as accurate as >> possible, hint millimetre acccuracy. > > ABS postcode boundaries are out by 1+ km in some places so I think i

Re: [talk-au] Our own satellite imagery?

2009-09-27 Thread John Smith
A cheaper option than blimps brought up on the talk list was covered in a BBC doco: http://www.cropcam.com Only US$7000 Based on some of their 400ft sample imagery: http://www.cropcam.com/images/samples/electrical-tower-nest.jpg and some quick back of the napkin type math it looks like you can