[talk-au] Apple buys google maps competitor...

2009-10-02 Thread John Smith
Apple has quietly bought up a mapping company that competes with google. http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/10/01/apple_purchased_google_maps_competitor_placebase_report.html ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] New CC-BY datasets due Monday 28 September on Government 2.0 Taskforce website

2009-10-02 Thread James Livingston
On 30/09/2009, at 10:25 PM, Emilie Laffray wrote: I really like to see the vegetation cover and the forest!! What are they? Shapefiles? If they are shapefiles, they come with their own projection files and therefore can be easily converted into another coordinate using ST_Transform inside

Re: [talk-au] New CC-BY datasets due Monday 28 September on Government 2.0 Taskforce website

2009-10-02 Thread John Smith
2009/10/2 James Livingston doc...@mac.com: areas[1]. Does it look okay to people? If so, I'll go ahead and do the rest of the WHA data. With the current tags you've used it probably won't render, since it's a national park you're going to get into the whole is it natural=wood, or landuse=forest

Re: [talk-au] New CC-BY datasets due Monday 28 September on Government 2.0 Taskforce website

2009-10-02 Thread James Livingston
On 02/10/2009, at 8:42 PM, John Smith wrote: 2009/10/2 James Livingston doc...@mac.com: With the current tags you've used it probably won't render, since it's a national park you're going to get into the whole is it natural=wood, or landuse=forest type debate, I think both get rendered as a

Re: [talk-au] New CC-BY datasets due Monday 28 September on Government 2.0 Taskforce website

2009-10-02 Thread Emilie Laffray
2009/10/2 James Livingston doc...@mac.com On 30/09/2009, at 10:25 PM, Emilie Laffray wrote: I really like to see the vegetation cover and the forest!! What are they? Shapefiles? If they are shapefiles, they come with their own projection files and therefore can be easily converted into

Re: [talk-au] New CC-BY datasets due Monday 28 September on Government 2.0 Taskforce website

2009-10-02 Thread John Smith
2009/10/2 Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com: Regarding tags, when we worked on the Corine import in France, we set up a page on the wiki where people were making their suggestions. We then had a small debate on what was better and then we voted. When it was too tight on terms of vote, it

Re: [talk-au] New CC-BY datasets due Monday 28 September on Government 2.0 Taskforce website

2009-10-02 Thread James Livingston
On 02/10/2009, at 8:50 PM, Emilie Laffray wrote: Regarding tags, when we worked on the Corine import in France, we set up a page on the wiki where people were making their suggestions. We then had a small debate on what was better and then we voted. Indeed, hence my I've uploaded a

Re: [talk-au] BTC mapper (Live POI uploader) launch event

2009-10-02 Thread John Smith
The previous video was accidentally deleted, here's a new link to the video that should work once it's finished processing the upload: http://vimeo.com/6860509 ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

[talk-au] Bird watching spots

2009-10-02 Thread edodd
This weekend I think I'll be checking out some local bird watching spots http://rankinssprings.googlepages.com/home so does anyone have any ideas on tagging bird watching spots and hides? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Magpie nesting and swooping areas

2009-10-02 Thread Roy Wallace
On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 8:33 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: It shouldn't be too hard to hack up a quick db that can do a layer over the top, I think people were suggesting to put this info directly into OSM but that may over kill a simpler DB can do the same thing in the same

Re: [talk-au] New CC-BY datasets due Monday 28 September on Government 2.0 Taskforce website

2009-10-02 Thread James Livingston
On 02/10/2009, at 9:01 PM, John Smith wrote: Might have to be a multipolygon, I just can't get it to render at all if I tell mapnik the tiles are dirty. I've just changed it over to be a multipolygon relation - if that works, I'll go file a bug against the renderer. A forest in the UK

Re: [talk-au] Bird watching spots

2009-10-02 Thread John Smith
2009/10/3 ed...@billiau.net: This weekend I think I'll be checking out some local bird watching spots http://rankinssprings.googlepages.com/home so does anyone have any ideas on tagging bird watching spots and hides? Bird hides: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/bird_hide

Re: [talk-au] New CC-BY datasets due Monday 28 September on Government 2.0 Taskforce website

2009-10-02 Thread John Smith
2009/10/3 James Livingston doc...@mac.com: On 02/10/2009, at 9:01 PM, John Smith wrote: Might have to be a multipolygon, I just can't get it to render at all if I tell mapnik the tiles are dirty. I've just changed it over to be a multipolygon relation - if that works, I'll go file a bug

Re: [talk-au] New CC-BY datasets due Monday 28 September on Government 2.0 Taskforce website

2009-10-02 Thread John Smith
2009/9/30 Evan Sebire e...@sebire.org: I adjusted the redfearn ( http://www.icsm.gov.au/gda/gdatm/redfearn.xls ) spreadsheet  and the values I got were 149D 08' 10''.13261 and -35D 18'57''.42808 If someone wants to convert the ACT data it may be easiest to use the spreadsheet and then the

Re: [talk-au] New CC-BY datasets due Monday 28 September on Government 2.0 Taskforce website

2009-10-02 Thread Sam Vekemans
Hi All, Just to let you all know, i signed up with your mailing list, and am happy to help you all out. :-) FYI I'm working with shp-to-osm.jar (java program) that ian dees made, and am not using shp2osm (python) that others made ('cause i dont speak python nor ibuntu language). So I can be of