Re: [talk-au] Tram stops and routes for Melbourne

2010-02-19 Thread Liz
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, John Smith wrote: > On 19 February 2010 10:10, Roy Wallace wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Andy Botting wrote: > >> "The Director would however approve the release of the data provided > >> the usual terms of our licence agreement were in place. " > > > > They cl

Re: [talk-au] answers to difficult questions

2010-02-19 Thread Liz
On Fri, 19 Feb 2010, David Murn wrote: > Youve got a GPS, all you need is a > compass, pen/paper and a little bit of high-school maths. > My high school maths is gone many years ago But the suggestion is quite correct. ___ Talk-au mailing list Tal

Re: [talk-au] answers to difficult questions

2010-02-19 Thread John Smith
On 19 February 2010 18:38, Liz wrote: > My high school maths is gone many years ago > But the suggestion is quite correct. Laser range finder wouldn't go astray either :) ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap

[talk-au] answers to difficult questions

2010-02-19 Thread Nick Hocking
John Smith wrote "Laser range finder wouldn't go astray either :)" I think that this would make an interesting mapping party How many ways can we find to map this wind farm without having hi-res imagery or having to break down their gates. 1) compass,gps, high school maths. 2) theodalite, p

[talk-au] local chapter stuff

2010-02-19 Thread John Smith
For those interested, here's the current draft released this evening: http://map-data.bigtincan.com/data/OSM_Local_Chapters_Draft_v0_3.pdf My concerns about this still haven't been addressed and it doesn't look like it will happen so I won't be at this stage pursuing any form of a local chapter i

Re: [talk-au] answers to difficult questions

2010-02-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 February 2010 00:05, Nick Hocking wrote: > 1) compass,gps, high school maths. > 2) theodalite, professional gps and a real live surveyor. > 4) laser rangefinder + gps These are all the same method, just slightly different tools... and #4 still needs a direction/compass... > 3) photographi

Re: [talk-au] answers to difficult questions

2010-02-19 Thread John Henderson
David Murn wrote: > Ive laid out powerlines across most of the ACT and Queanbeyan, so feel > free to do the line from the wind farm to the Queanbeyan sub-station. As well as the ways (power=line), shouldn't we be tagging the individual nodes (pylons) also (power=tower), as is done here: http://

Re: [talk-au] answers to difficult questions

2010-02-19 Thread John Henderson
I wrote: > As well as the ways (power=line), shouldn't we be tagging the individual > nodes (pylons) also (power=tower), as is done here: Oops, wrong URL. Try: http://www.osm.org/?lat=-27.44862&lon=153.11414&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF John H ___ Talk-a

Re: [talk-au] local chapter stuff

2010-02-19 Thread Liz
On Sat, 20 Feb 2010, John Smith wrote: > For those interested, here's the current draft released this evening: > > http://map-data.bigtincan.com/data/OSM_Local_Chapters_Draft_v0_3.pdf > > My concerns about this still haven't been addressed and it doesn't > look like it will happen so I won't be a

Re: [talk-au] answers to difficult questions

2010-02-19 Thread David Murn
On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 05:16 +1100, John Henderson wrote: > David Murn wrote: > > > Ive laid out powerlines across most of the ACT and Queanbeyan, so feel > > free to do the line from the wind farm to the Queanbeyan sub-station. > > As well as the ways (power=line), shouldn't we be tagging the ind

Re: [talk-au] answers to difficult questions

2010-02-19 Thread Franc Carter
> Yes - If they're red and just that exact distance from the road then I quess > it should be a postbox. > I can't work out the telephone boxes in Queanbeyan from the imagery.  so I'm > still surveying them. some/lots of the telephone box's in Sydney are very distinctive ;-) > > Nick -- Franc

Re: [talk-au] local chapter stuff

2010-02-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 February 2010 12:47, Liz wrote: > I wrote a note about this draft, decided it could be libellous and haven't > posted it publically. It's only libelous if unfounded... > I'll merely say that if they are the terms, I wouldn't be able to join the > local chapter. This is why I've decided to

Re: [talk-au] answers to difficult questions

2010-02-19 Thread John Henderson
David Murn wrote: > Ive been tagging all nodes as power=tower where its evident from nearmap > that there is a large metal tower, however rendered tiles only show the > power=tower nodes, not the power=pylon nodes. Yes, I see them rendering now. I'd picked an unfortunately small sample earlier.

Re: [talk-au] answers to difficult questions

2010-02-19 Thread Steve Bennett
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 1:05 AM, Nick Hocking wrote: > 1)  compass,gps, high school maths. You mean triangulation? My GPS (garmin oregon 550) comes so close to supporting this natively with its built in compass, but falls short. It has a mode which lets you point at an object, then estimate a dis