Re: [talk-au] What's happening in April? (was: Re: Suitable Garmin GPS Devices)

2011-01-03 Thread Sam Vekemans
/me is hoping that there will be multiple API instances globally so then the planet load can be shared. Ideally, designated country-specific APIs which require a unique login will be setup and ready for april 1st.. This makes for merging the API's at a later date (when the dust settles) MUCH e

[talk-au] What's happening in April? (was: Re: Suitable Garmin GPS Devices)

2011-01-03 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > On being able to add to the data - note that there is a split in the > community over the new licence for OSM and some substantial > contributors to the Australian map will provide no more data to OSM > after April Fool's Day. > We will have

Re: [talk-au] Locations of underground creeks

2011-01-03 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 16:51:54 +1100 Steve Bennett wrote: > Yer, but GPS's don't work underground. you need an INS ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Locations of underground creeks

2011-01-03 Thread Steve Bennett
Yer, but GPS's don't work underground. Steve On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 1:04 PM, John Smith wrote: > On 4 January 2011 10:41, Steve Bennett wrote: >> Any ideas where to get information on the shape of the tunnel, if >> that's what it is? If not, do we just draw a straight line from inlet >> to outl

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread John Smith
On 4 January 2011 14:07, John Smith wrote: > Then tag the exception, rather than everything, and in the case of > Australia, which road exactly goes outside the country border? Oh almost forgot, if you have to do this, use an existing tag like addr:state=* ___

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread John Smith
On 4 January 2011 12:34, Richard Weait wrote: > Two reasons, so far. We have found highways maintained outside the > border of the expected jurisdiction. So a NY shield is required in > Pennsylvania. But mostly because we have to describe the shield in > the context of a file system, as well, t

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:02 PM, John Smith wrote: > On 4 January 2011 06:15, Richard Weait wrote: >> To make these work well globally, the network tag should be namespaced >> with the country and if needed, the state / province.  I've added the >> "AU_" prefix to the Australian shields in the wik

Re: [talk-au] Locations of underground creeks

2011-01-03 Thread John Smith
On 4 January 2011 10:41, Steve Bennett wrote: > Any ideas where to get information on the shape of the tunnel, if > that's what it is? If not, do we just draw a straight line from inlet > to outlet? Suggestions? Well... Police are charging people with stupidity at present for taking air matresses

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread John Smith
On 4 January 2011 06:15, Richard Weait wrote: > To make these work well globally, the network tag should be namespaced > with the country and if needed, the state / province. I've added the > "AU_" prefix to the Australian shields in the wiki link above. If you > have a more thorough discussion

Re: [talk-au] Bing Imagery

2011-01-03 Thread John Smith
On 4 January 2011 05:18, Ben Kelley wrote: > The photos are a couple of years out of date there, but they line up quite > well. I probably wouldn't change a road that said source=survey to match > Bing, but I have found a few things that would have been very time consuming The current tested vers

[talk-au] Locations of underground creeks

2011-01-03 Thread Steve Bennett
Hi all, I was having a look at trying to connect the "end" of scotchman's creek in Melbourne with where it runs into Gardiner's Creek. It disappears underground here: http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-37.88404,145.090248&z=21&t=k&nmd=20101120 And reappears here: http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-37.876498,1

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 15:15:58 -0500 Richard Weait wrote: > If, in your future highway editing, you could update your network tags > to the AU_NH, AU_NR, etc. form, that will mean that Australian shields > will continue to render after I clean up the Dirty Hack(r). ;-) we now put network tags in re

[talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread Richard Weait
Hi All, I've been working on better highway shield rendering in Canada and the US for a while. I added a few Australian shields today. My rendering of shields relies on the network tag as documented http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:route#Road_Routes and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w

Re: [talk-au] Bing Imagery

2011-01-03 Thread Ben Kelley
+1 I have been having a look at Bing imagery in Tamworth (NSW) and comparing it to existing survey work I have done. The photos are a couple of years out of date there, but they line up quite well. I probably wouldn't change a road that said source=survey to match Bing, but I have found a few thi

[talk-au] Bing Imagery

2011-01-03 Thread John Smith
Regardless of your stance on the licensing debate, we should be making as much hay while the sun is shining, especially in regional areas where alternative sources are few and far between. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.o