Re: [talk-au] A problem area (maybe) for the someone in Canberra

2010-03-15 Thread Michael Hampson
It might be this track. http://nobmob.com/rides/majurapines Regards, Michael Hampson Ph: 02 4739 4938 On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 3:01 PM, John Smith wrote: > On 16 March 2010 13:34, Jim Croft wrote: > > I think there is a single track mountain bike course about there > > somewhere... it has tha

Re: [talk-au] A problem area (maybe) for the someone in Canberra

2010-03-15 Thread John Smith
On 16 March 2010 13:34, Jim Croft wrote: > I think there is a single track mountain bike course about there > somewhere... it has that look about it and it appears that the same > track has been gone over twice in some places. In that case it might be best contacting who ever added this to OSM as

Re: [talk-au] A problem area (maybe) for the someone in Canberra

2010-03-15 Thread Jim Croft
I think there is a single track mountain bike course about there somewhere... it has that look about it and it appears that the same track has been gone over twice in some places. jim On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Liz wrote: > On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Simon Biber wrote: >> From: John Henderson >

Re: [talk-au] A problem area (maybe) for the someone in Canberra

2010-03-15 Thread Liz
On Tue, 16 Mar 2010, Simon Biber wrote: > From: John Henderson > > > I live in Canberra and noticed the same thing some time ago. I haven't > > found an excuse yet to visit the specific area. > > > > But the history seems to indicate that it could be legit: > > http://www.openstreetmap.org/brows

Re: [talk-au] A problem area (maybe) for the someone in Canberra

2010-03-15 Thread Simon Biber
From: John Henderson > I live in Canberra and noticed the same thing some time ago. I haven't > found an excuse yet to visit the specific area. > > But the history seems to indicate that it could be legit: > http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/16165199/history GPS trace of someone sever

Re: [talk-au] A problem area (maybe) for the someone in Canberra

2010-03-15 Thread John Smith
On 16 March 2010 12:22, John Henderson wrote: > I live in Canberra and noticed the same thing some time ago. I haven't > found an excuse yet to visit the specific area. It looks like someone just converted a GPS trace to OSM data and uploaded it. > But the history seems to indicate that it coul

Re: [talk-au] A problem area (maybe) for the someone in Canberra

2010-03-15 Thread John Henderson
On 16/03/10 12:54, Sean wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > G'day All > > I was testing map a that was made for the TwoNav Aventura GPS. While I > was looking around the map I come across this > http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-35.2394&lon=149.19164&zoom=16&layers=B000FT

[talk-au] A problem area (maybe) for the someone in Canberra

2010-03-15 Thread Sean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G'day All I was testing map a that was made for the TwoNav Aventura GPS. While I was looking around the map I come across this http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-35.2394&lon=149.19164&zoom=16&layers=B000FTF I don't really like playing around in some

Re: [talk-au] Incorrectly expanding abbreviations

2010-03-15 Thread John Smith
On 16 March 2010 10:22, Liz wrote: > any other way to say this? The only examples Ben gave were churches and a train station. The churches would be a fairly grey area so I'm not going to touch that but that's only half the picture, since the wiki page also covers things like towns and businesses

Re: [talk-au] Incorrectly expanding abbreviations

2010-03-15 Thread Liz
On Mon, 15 Mar 2010, Ben Kelley wrote: > While I don't think it's particularly necessary to expand abbreviations for > names (or contract for that matter), I certainly don't think it is invalid > to do so. > They are individual It is necessary to find out what the correct designation is for each c

[talk-au] followup on world database of protected areas

2010-03-15 Thread Jim Croft
from @rdmpage: "@Jim_Croft You can get KML for areas in individual countries after registering at http://www.wdpa.org but no @creativecommons license" jim -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one

[talk-au] Protected Planet shape files

2010-03-15 Thread Jim Croft
Been trying to track down permission to use the Protected Planet shape files for OSM . >From @jatorre: "@emeyke @jim_croft @rdmpage we are right now working on downloads on protectedplanet.net so stay tuned.a data API will later be available" It is a pretty open project so I am fairly sure it wil

Re: [talk-au] Incorrectly expanding abbreviations

2010-03-15 Thread Ben Kelley
I'm not sure it's really worth the Wiki page. "St." is a perfectly valid abbreviation of "Saint". While "St." is very commonly used in Australia (written and spoken - "snt"), if someone changes a name from "St." to "Saint", is it really necessary to change it back? Most of the modern signs for St

Re: [talk-au] South Australia NPWSA Parks

2010-03-15 Thread Mark
Thanks Alex, I have temp removed the Parks from OSM until I figure out the license stuff. Data.australia.gov.au was the original place I got the data from. The only problem is the shape file is missing the starting coordinate so it appears in a different country. It mentions to include an attribu