Re: [talk-au] Qld police stations - potential OSM bulk import

2009-12-11 Thread John Smith
2009/12/11 Chris Barham : > Hi, > I think I have found a good datasource for OSM, but I've run out of > steam trying to manipulate it.  If there is agreement the data is > useful and legitimate; similar to the BP import, I wondered if I could > ask for help, perhaps reapplying Johns' BP import code

Re: [talk-au] Blanchetown

2009-12-11 Thread Mark Pulley
On 09/12/2009, at 11:57 PM, Mark Pulley wrote: On 08/12/2009, at 12:27 AM, Nick Hocking wrote: BTW, my new years resolution is to survey Gundagai. It's a total discrace, It was traced and has never been visited and SURVEYED properly. I did some GPS traces of some streets in Gundagai in Nov

[talk-au] Qld police stations - potential OSM bulk import

2009-12-11 Thread Chris Barham
Hi, I think I have found a good datasource for OSM, but I've run out of steam trying to manipulate it. If there is agreement the data is useful and legitimate; similar to the BP import, I wondered if I could ask for help, perhaps reapplying Johns' BP import code/procedure to this dataset? Queensl

Re: [talk-au] Australia BP service station dataset - suitable for bulk import?

2009-12-11 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, you wrote: > 2009/12/11 Elizabeth Dodd : > > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, you wrote: > >> > i then looked for one at blanchetown, and there was no new bp at > >> > blanchetown, so either its not bp any more, or because the node was > >> > close the new data has not been imported > >> >

Re: [talk-au] Australia BP service station dataset - suitable for bulk import?

2009-12-11 Thread John Smith
2009/12/11 Liz : > i then looked for one at blanchetown, and there was no new bp at blanchetown, > so either its not bp any more, or because the node was close the new data has > not been imported I think you found it, unless you mean there is 2 BPs at Blanchetown? ___

Re: [talk-au] National Public Toilet Map released under restrictive licence

2009-12-11 Thread Emilie Laffray
2009/12/11 Liz > On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: > > The long awaited National Public Toilet Map has been released in XML > > (but not under CC-BY like many reports recommended) @ > > http://data.australia.gov.au/610 > > > > Instead, it's a click through licence that amongst ot

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Why PD is not better for business

2009-12-11 Thread John Smith
2009/12/11 Elizabeth Dodd : > so we don't need imported data? > > --  Forwarded Message  -- > > Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Why PD is not better for business > Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 > From: paul youlten > To: Liz > > Liz, > > The coastline I did back in the "old days" was between Has

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Why PD is not better for business

2009-12-11 Thread James Livingston
On 11/12/2009, at 8:02 PM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > so we don't need imported data? In most cases we don't need imported data, but it can be useful. For example rather than painstakingly crafting the entire coastline of Australia from a few GPS traces and a lot of imagery (much is relatively inac

[talk-au] Fwd: Re: [OSM-talk] Why PD is not better for business

2009-12-11 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
so we don't need imported data? -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Why PD is not better for business Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2009 From: paul youlten To: Liz Liz, The coastline I did back in the "old days" was between Hastings in Sussex and Folkestone in Kent. I did th

Re: [talk-au] Australia BP service station dataset - suitable for bulk import?

2009-12-11 Thread John Smith
2009/12/11 Liz : > the one i did i dragged the node to the surveyed place, merged the two, and > left the source as bp?; survey I'd do it: source=bp.com source:location=survey > i then looked for one at blanchetown, and there was no new bp at blanchetown, > so either its not bp any more, or beca

Re: [talk-au] National Public Toilet Map released under restrictive licence

2009-12-11 Thread John Smith
2009/12/11 Liz : > a clear piece of evidence that getting Au data licensed for ODbL is going to > be like pushing excreta uphill As James pointed out, CC-BY should be compatible, if all the other data on the site is licensed as such why wasn't this data set? __

Re: [talk-au] Australia BP service station dataset - suitable for bulk import?

2009-12-11 Thread John Smith
2009/12/11 James Livingston : > http://apps.nowwhere.com.au/caltex/austlocator/search.aspx I wouldn't bother with nowwhere, it's a mapds website and they are most likely hosting the data on behalf of caltex, and so they probably wouldn't be able or willing to release the data. > http://www.shell.

Re: [talk-au] National Public Toilet Map released under restrictive licence

2009-12-11 Thread Liz
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: > The long awaited National Public Toilet Map has been released in XML > (but not under CC-BY like many reports recommended) @ > http://data.australia.gov.au/610 > > Instead, it's a click through licence that amongst other Proprietary > terms requi

Re: [talk-au] Australia BP service station dataset - suitable for bulk import?

2009-12-11 Thread John Smith
2009/12/11 Arie Paap : > How should duplicates which are already in OSM (but weren't close > enough to be picked up when processed) be dealt with? For example BP > Bellevue: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-31.8941&lon=116.0263&zoom=17&layers=B000FTF > (both appear on southern side of Great Ea

Re: [talk-au] Australia BP service station dataset - suitable for bulk import?

2009-12-11 Thread Liz
On Fri, 11 Dec 2009, Arie Paap wrote: > How should duplicates which are already in OSM (but weren't close > enough to be picked up when processed) be dealt with? For example BP > Bellevue: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-31.8941&lon=116.0263&zoom=17&layers=B000 >FTF (both appear on southern si

Re: [talk-au] National Public Toilet Map released under restrictive licence

2009-12-11 Thread John Smith
2009/12/11 Alex (Maxious) Sadleir : > The long awaited National Public Toilet Map has been released in XML > (but not under CC-BY like many reports recommended) @ > http://data.australia.gov.au/610 > > Instead, it's a click through licence that amongst other Proprietary > terms requires anybody wit