Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 July 2010 16:10, Steve Bennett wrote: > Why not use: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:noname I was told in the UK they have streets that aren't named, where as in Australia all streets do have names, I sent an email to this list some time ago asking for suggestions on what to do i

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread Steve Bennett
Why not use: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:noname Steve On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Nick Hocking wrote: > "I can check Yass on Friday, as the Department of Health and Ageing is > paying > me to drive that way again." > > Thanks Liz, that'd be great. > > I'll bet a virtual $5.00 t

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 10:40 AM, John Smith wrote: > I made a noname overlay style and it should be a lot more up to date > as the server should* be expiring tiles in real time: > > http://maps.bigtincan.com/?z=8&ll=-35.255,149.163&layer=BFTF Nice. Perhaps you could add an "edit

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread Liz
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Nick Hocking wrote: > "I can check Yass on Friday, as the Department of Health and Ageing is > paying > me to drive that way again." > > Thanks Liz, that'd be great. > > I'll bet a virtual $5.00 that there will still be no signposts but maybe > you can find some corroborating

[talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread Nick Hocking
"I can check Yass on Friday, as the Department of Health and Ageing is paying me to drive that way again." Thanks Liz, that'd be great. I'll bet a virtual $5.00 that there will still be no signposts but maybe you can find some corroborating evidence that I've missed. For some reason the two down

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread Liz
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Nick Hocking wrote: > "Streets without names are highlighted in red. I only see about 3 for > Yass, and 1 in Gundaroo." > > Thanks Steve. > > The last 3 or 4 times I've checked Yass, those 3 have had no street signs > and there were no other indications of what name they were

[talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread Nick Hocking
"Streets without names are highlighted in red. I only see about 3 for Yass, and 1 in Gundaroo." Thanks Steve. The last 3 or 4 times I've checked Yass, those 3 have had no street signs and there were no other indications of what name they were. Still it's been a few months since I drove out to Yas

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 July 2010 08:58, Steve Bennett wrote: > FYI, a simpler method: > - navigate to town on openstreetmap.org > - select "noname" from the + menu on the right Some people complained that the cloudmade noname layer can be horribly out of date, basically they cache a tile and don't refresh them ve

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread Peter Ross
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:58 AM, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Peter Ross wrote: >> I should be more specific, I looked at town on the hume on the way to >> canberra >> >> Using >>  * Yass >>  * Goulbourn >>  * Murumbateman >>  * Gundaroo >> >>

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 8:14 AM, Peter Ross wrote: > I should be more specific, I looked at town on the hume on the way to canberra > > Using >  * Yass >  * Goulbourn >  * Murumbateman >  * Gundaroo > > It's quite simple to check towns yourself. FYI, a simpler method: - n

Re: [talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread Peter Ross
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:25 AM, Nick Hocking wrote: > "My quick scan of towns near canberra shows that they have the streets, > but no street names." > > Hi Peter, > > Which towns near Canberra have unamed streets? This is a situation that I > would like > to correct as soon as possible. > I shou

[talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-19 Thread Nick Hocking
"My quick scan of towns near canberra shows that they have the streets, but no street names." Hi Peter, Which towns near Canberra have unamed streets? This is a situation that I would like to correct as soon as possible. Cheers Nick ___ Talk-au mailing