Hi,
I'm in Charleville, Qld for a couple of days with an iPhone, a garmin oregon
GPS and, from tomorrow, a vehicle.
The place is pretty much unsurveyed, but the DCDB has been used to add streets
so the road geometry is ok.
Will do what I can (street names etc) , but I wondered if there is anythi
On 7 September 2011 12:27, Ian Sergeant wrote:
>> Princes Highway is part of route 1.
>
> This isn't helpful. National Route 1 and the Princes Hwy diverge at many
> points. National Route 1 follows the Southern Freeway south from Sydney for
> a start.
So what, how does that make routes less usef
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:14 AM, Ian Sergeant wrote:
[regarding a relation with gaps]
> I have surveyed, it is removed from the relation, and consequently the
> relation has a gap.
>
> My understanding is for this relation type - a route - gaps are not
> allowed. After all, this is the whole poin
On 7 September 2011 11:55, Steve Bennett wrote:
>
> > What I'm talking about here is a "route" relation. I'm arguing that we
> > don't need a named route relation called the Princes Highway.
>
> But your argument consists of "I can't decide which roads should make
> up the relation, so let's del
There have been some interesting tweets today:
Now on at #smartgov Colin Fairweather on how Melbourne became a smart city
Colin says the City of Melbourne will be making public a large amount
of maps data this month - "google on steroids" #smartgov
Data will include property & business census, occ
On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 9:26 AM, Ian Sergeant wrote:
> The RTA in NSW has an internal route that they call the Princes Highway -
> which is essentially the main road heading south along the coast (give or
> take). They nominate this route because it is the one they maintain as a
> state govt road
On 6 September 2011 14:10, Liz wrote:
> according to my personal knowledge, it has run between Adelaide and
> Sydney via Melbourne for decades.
>
>
Hi Liz,
This is fine and good, and common knowledge. However, when you start
looking at the road at the micro-level on the ground, it ain't that
On 6 September 2011 07:13, Ben Kelley wrote:
> In general I think it is common that a highway has a different name when it
> goes through a town. Here the route continues, and will often be signposted
> with the route number.
>
> I'm not sure if that is the case for every road in this relation tho
On 6 September 2011 12:20, Steve Bennett wrote:
> According to Wikipedia, it should extend all the way from Adelaide to Sydney:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_Highway
If memory serves correctly, it changes name through Melbourne.
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On 6 September 2011 12:50, Ian Sergeant wrote:
> This document tells which roads are RTA funded, and which are local roads,
> and does have a Princes Hwy route for the purposes of funding. However, I
> really believe we should stick to mapping what is on the ground, else we are
> going to run int
On 6 September 2011 13:26, Ian Sergeant wrote:
> Nearmap is no longer an acceptable source for OSM, since they do not allow
> traces from their imagery to be re-licensed. I notice at least one of your
> edits sourced nearmap, and that isn't allowed any more. If you were using
> Potlatch, perhaps
On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 12:20:15 +1000
Steve Bennett wrote:
> According to Wikipedia, it should extend all the way from Adelaide to
> Sydney: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princes_Highway
according to my personal knowledge, it has run between Adelaide and
Sydney via Melbourne for decades.
But the "re
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:52 AM, Ian Sergeant wrote:
> On 6 September 2011 19:49, Andrew Harvey wrote:
>
>
>> That reminds me.. I've just updated the name of the Princess Highway
>> through Engadine based on the signed name via ground survey. I've made
>> the change in fosm,
>> http://api.fosm.o
On 6 September 2011 19:49, Andrew Harvey wrote:
> That reminds me.. I've just updated the name of the Princess Highway
> through Engadine based on the signed name via ground survey. I've made
> the change in fosm,
> http://api.fosm.org/api/0.6/changeset/102770/download feel free to
> mirror
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 7:13 AM, Ben Kelley wrote:
> In general I think it is common that a highway has a different name when it
> goes through a town. Here the route continues, and will often be signposted
> with the route number.
>
> I'm not sure if that is the case for every road in this relatio
On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 12:32 PM, Ian Sergeant wrote:
> As you say, time isn't the only consideration. I wouldn't want to be
> navigating anywhere important based on a map merely consisting of vectorised
> aerial imagery. IMO OSMers are the ones who should be having the adventures
> down the road
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