Re: [talk-au] Australian Timezones

2010-06-20 Thread rran...@ihug.com.au
>From the linux timezone files # From Paul Eggert (1996-11-22): # IATA SSIM (1993-02/1994-09) say that the Holiday Islands (Hayman, Lindeman, # Hamilton) observed DST for two years after the rest of Queensland stopped. # Hamilton is the largest, but there is also a Hamilton in Victoria, # so

Re: [talk-au] Proposal to update weather monitoring_stations using BoM data.

2010-06-20 Thread John Smith
On 20 June 2010 14:11, {Tim} m526244+osm...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/20/2010 11:40 AM, John Smith wrote: If you've made the changes you were going to make, then go for it, anyone that was going to comment would have by now. Your timing uncanny. I just finished typing wiki entry:

Re: [talk-au] Australian Timezones

2010-06-20 Thread John Smith
On 20 June 2010 16:59, rran...@ihug.com.au 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...

[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_DETAILScatno =61307 Regards, Markus. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG -

Re: [talk-au] Rivers and streams

2010-06-20 Thread John Smith
On 20 June 2010 21:05, Markus marku...@bigpond.com 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

Re: [talk-au] Rivers and streams

2010-06-20 Thread John Smith
On 20 June 2010 21:24, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: The data doesn't belong to ga.gov.au, they link to psu.edu and on that page it says the data is quite out of date, did you look at the rivers/streams data from data.australia.gov.au?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

Re: [talk-au] Australian Timezones

2010-06-20 Thread Ross Scanlon
On Sun, 20 Jun 2010 11:52:47 +1000 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com 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

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

[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