Re: [talk-au] Missing streets in Sydney

2011-08-31 Thread Mark Pulley
On 26/08/2011, at 1:33 PM, Nick Hocking wrote: I'm sure all the avid "tracers"out there will deny this,but, I believe that 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 th

Re: [talk-au] Undreadful Imports

2011-08-31 Thread Nick Hocking
Ben wrote "AFAIK there is no PD source of postcode data." The vibes I was getting, and of course I may have misinterpreted these, are that if we made any sort of decent case that the current ABS data, as imported into OSM is of some benifit in respect to disaster preparedness and/or disaster resp

Re: [talk-au] Missing streets in Sydney

2011-08-31 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:01 AM, Anthony wrote: > The other interesting thing is that when I was finished, pretty much > none of the ways I drew and/or imported from the gps, had names on > them!  (I did the surveying alone and didn't care to pull over every > time I saw a sign, or to endanger my