[talk-au] ABC national radio interview...

2010-06-20 Thread John Smith
David Dean did a follow-up interview on ABC national radio this morning: http://blogs.abc.net.au/queensland/2010/06/open-street-maps.html You can listen to the interview online and the interview last year: http://blogs.abc.net.au/queensland/2009/05/make-your-own-m.html _

Re: [talk-au] Hikers on this list?

2010-06-20 Thread John Smith
Pity it's not going to be available for some time... "Germany's new TanDEM-X radar satellite is scheduled to lift off from Baikonur Cosmodrome at 04:15 Berlin time on 21 June — that's 10:14 pm Eastern today (20 June). Flying in close formation with its twin satellite, TerraSAR-X, TanDEM-X will gen

Re: [talk-au] Australian Timezones

2010-06-20 Thread Ross Scanlon
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:52:47 +1000 John Smith wrote: > Does anyone know why Linderman Island and 2 other islands close to the > northern Qld coast get their own time zone? Tourism. When the southern states are on daylight saving Lindeman has daylight saving time. Don't know if the other islan

Re: [talk-au] Rivers and streams

2010-06-20 Thread John Smith
On 20 June 2010 21:24, John Smith wrote: > The data doesn't belong to ga.gov.au, they link to psu.edu and on that > page it says the data is quite out of date, did you look at the > rivers/streams data from data.australia.gov.au? The dataset I was thinking about only covers Qld... The good news i

Re: [talk-au] Rivers and streams

2010-06-20 Thread John Smith
On 20 June 2010 21:05, Markus wrote: > I am interested in adding some of the lakes and creeks in the national parks > to OSM. > > Just to confirm this source to be ok to use. The data doesn't belong to ga.gov.au, they link to psu.edu and on that page it says the data is quite out of date, did you

[talk-au] Rivers and streams

2010-06-20 Thread Markus
I am interested in adding some of the lakes and creeks in the national parks to OSM. Just to confirm this source to be ok to use. https://www.ga.gov.au/products/servlet/controller?event=GEOCAT_DETAILS&catno =61307 Regards, Markus. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG - www.a

Re: [talk-au] Australian Timezones

2010-06-20 Thread John Smith
On 20 June 2010 16:59, rran...@ihug.com.au wrote: > The TZ files installed are compiled. I looked at the Australian source file > in the tzdata source. I have attached this file. It is not primary source, > but I have found it to be accurate. Thanks for that...