Re: [talk-au] Vandalism by "99scilla111"

2011-08-30 Thread 4x4falcon
Hi Pete, Unfortunately because you have modified some of these it's not possible to revert the changesets. Have a look here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Vandalism so the next step is to report it to the data working group to have a block placed on this user. Explain that you have a

Re: [talk-au] Undreadful Imports

2011-08-30 Thread Ben Kelley
Hi. AFAIK there is no PD source of postcode data. Merging an import of postcode and/or admin boundaries with existing data might be quite a time consuming job. Even if you assume that all the current rev 1 admin/postcode boundaries get removed at some point (because the ABS does not agree to the

Re: [talk-au] Vandalism by "99scilla111"

2011-08-30 Thread SomeoneElse
On 31/08/2011 01:08, Pete Ramjet wrote: Noticed this morning that user "99scilla111 " has vandalised a large number of roads/buildings/etc since 12 August. It really annoys me when somebody goes out of their way to detroy the good work of other pe

[talk-au] Vandalism by "99scilla111"

2011-08-30 Thread Pete Ramjet
Noticed this morning that user "99scilla111" has vandalised a large number of roads/buildings/etc since 12 August. It really annoys me when somebody goes out of their way to detroy the good work of other people. I've tried contacting them to no avail.

[talk-au] Vandalism by "99scilla111"

2011-08-30 Thread Pete Ramjet
Noticed this morning that user "99scilla111" has vandalised a large number of roads/buildings/etc since 12 August. It really annoys me when somebody goes out of their way to detroy the good work of other people. I've tried contacting them to no avail

[talk-au] Undreadful Imports

2011-08-30 Thread Nick Hocking
Despite the danger of imports turnimg OSM into a dumping ground of substandard out-of-date data, there is (In Australia's case) some very good data that could be imported. Someone told me that currently, due to the recent disasters (fire and flood), mapping for disaster preparedness and response i

Re: [talk-au] Missing streets in Sydney

2011-08-30 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Nick Hocking wrote: > this is the downside to tracing.  Once an area looks well mapped, there is > little incentive for anyone to go there to map it properly. I'd really like > it if all roads that don't have names yet (in OSM) were just deleted. Then > II'd be muc