[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Visual map for the blind

2009-10-08 Thread John Smith
Not quite the same thing as below, but I was told last week that colour blind people can't use google maps because there is too much green -- Forwarded message -- From: Lulu-Ann Date: 2009/10/9 Subject: [OSM-talk] Visual map for the blind To: accessibil...@openstreetmap.org, t...@

[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] Google Updates its Data

2009-10-08 Thread John Smith
-- Forwarded message -- From: Apollinaris Schoell Date: 2009/10/9 Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Google Updates its Data To: "Barnett, Phillip" Cc: OSM Talk the interesting change is in US. No copyright info linking to Teleatlas. Google is now it's own map provider. I was long awaitin

Re: [talk-au] Correct attribution for Queensland CC-BY datasets

2009-10-08 Thread Brendan Morley
Talking about the appropriate attribution, The http://data.australia.gov.au/152 webpage indicates the citation as "Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management". This is incorrect and DERM is actually chasing up the website editor to get things changed. (Trust a "gov2.0" init

Re: [talk-au] Adding highway=road from property boundary centreline geography

2009-10-08 Thread John Smith
2009/10/8 Brendan Morley : > Sam, > > May I respectfully disagree? > > A reason I'm putting in "highway=road" ways is that even though I may never > have the petrol or time to get out to most of these places, others might. > And if others might, they may have a GPS logger. If they do, great, they c

Re: [talk-au] Adding highway=road from property boundary centreline geography

2009-10-08 Thread Brendan Morley
Sam, May I respectfully disagree? A reason I'm putting in "highway=road" ways is that even though I may never have the petrol or time to get out to most of these places, others might. And if others might, they may have a GPS logger. If they do, great, they can adjust my naive centreline way

Re: [talk-au] Mapping railway lines

2009-10-08 Thread Greg Harper
I have had success with the bullet train from Osaka to Tokyo and Tokyo to Narita. I had my GPS (Garmin Vista, which I have upgraded to a Vista HCX) on the window shelf, and got good accuracy. The only problem I had was the numerous tunnels! Here's my trace from Tokyo to Narita. http://www.openstre