Re: [talk-au] MapOSMatic will now do any where...

2010-01-02 Thread John Smith
2010/1/2 James Andrewartha tr...@student.uwa.edu.au: Logic is not the only requirement for useful conversation. Assuming good faith is also important, and something that you often don't do Which he failed to do, he's sent some nasty comments to me personally with respect to what others have

Re: [talk-au] NearMap PhotoMap imagery for OSM

2010-01-02 Thread John Smith
2010/1/2 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: http://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/3983 I managed to get this to work, although I did it in slightly a lazy way in that you can't supply a completely custom URL, I just added a type option for custom URLs, so you could tell the system to send

[talk-au] Walker intention books - how to tag?

2010-01-02 Thread Mark Pulley
Anyone got any suggestions on how to tag walker intention books? These are located at the start of walks in remote areas so park rangers / rescue services know where you were going if you don't come back. The Hiking page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Hiking doesn't help. At Strzelecki

Re: [talk-au] Walker intention books - how to tag?

2010-01-02 Thread John Henderson
I've wondered the same thing myself. My thought is that a user-defined amenity tag might be the most appropriate, given the lack of anything already defined. amenity=logbook seems simple and meaningful to me. Log books are frequently used to give and to update intentions. Maybe it could be

Re: [talk-au] Cul-de-sac

2010-01-02 Thread John Henderson
As you say, I and others have been using the node tag highway=turning_circle for this. It seems to neatly fit the bill: A turning circle is a rounded, widened area usually, but not necessarily, at the end of a road to facilitate easier turning of a vehicle. John Jim Croft wrote: Many of

Re: [talk-au] Cul-de-sac

2010-01-02 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Jim Croft jim.cr...@gmail.com wrote: Many of the residential 'dead ends' in Giralang are terminated by neat little blobs that render sort of like the turning radius at the ends of these streets. This is not uniform practice across the ACT. On inspection,

Re: [talk-au] Cul-de-sac

2010-01-02 Thread John Smith
2010/1/2 Jim Croft jim.cr...@gmail.com: Interestingly, the ACT govt public maps deal with this in their on-line application by drawing the actual line of the curb as it curves out and around. Unless you have surveyor grade equipment (and the budget to pay for a surveyor) highway=turning_circle

[talk-au] Nearmap to do Melbourne to NSW border....

2010-01-02 Thread John Smith
Just noticed this on their forum... http://forum.nearmap.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7t=67 ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Cul-de-sac

2010-01-02 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 12:44 AM, Jim Croft jim.cr...@gmail.com wrote: ok - will give it a go. my mental image of a turning circle may have been more like a round about... You may have been thinking of traffic circle, the US term for a roundabout. Canberra must have more of these things than

Re: [talk-au] broken JOSM

2010-01-02 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, you wrote: decided to try merkaartor again in the interim but will report back I really should try that out, but people keep saying it isn't as feature rich as JOSM... nearmap runs from svn without trouble has a roundabout creation tool and /should/ have geotagged