Re: [talk-au] Aligning steets

2012-09-19 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 19/09/12 19:28, Michael James wrote: On 09/19/2012 04:35 PM, Ross Scanlon wrote: They are not mini-roundabouts if you can not drive over them. Look here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmini_roundabout Also read the Australian Tagging Guidelines here: wiki.openstreetmap.o

Re: [talk-au] Tasmanian Survey Marks

2012-09-19 Thread Ross Scanlon
something that will enable me to check my Garmin 62s' accuracy and give the ability to align Bing when I find them on the ground providing that they can be seen from Bing. Be great if they are in nice circles of I doubt if you'll see them on bing as most survey points are way too small. You'd p

[talk-au] Tasmanian Survey Marks

2012-09-19 Thread Brett Russell
Hi When searching for survey marks I came across this link that lists the known survey marks, http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/Attachments/NBON-75X7RM?open in a CSV format for Tasmanian. Not suggesting that this is imported into OSM as not aware of the copyright issues but at long last

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries

2012-09-19 Thread Ken Self
Unfortunately I've found that the ABS data that the data is not as good as it ought to be. Many nodes that should be shared are not coincident and in many cases a vertex node for one boundary has no corresponding node on the "straight through" boundary. And in some cases the vertex node is not quit

Re: [talk-au] Rest areas

2012-09-19 Thread Ian Sergeant
On 20 September 2012 07:52, Andrew Harvey wrote: > Thanks John I didn't know about this. > > I've just fixed two of these in fosm. *I hope people on this don't see > the inclusion of this line trolling. But since we inherit all mapping > techniques, tags, and other "how to map" guides in fosm fro

Re: [talk-au] Rest areas

2012-09-19 Thread John Henderson
On 20/09/12 08:17, John Smith wrote: The rest area to the south of Gympie allows camping for up to 48 hours or something like that, it's not the only one, but the one I know off the top of my head. I'm aware of a few of those free caravan/camping facilities, sometimes provided by local council

Re: [talk-au] Rest areas

2012-09-19 Thread Andrew Harvey
On 20/09/12 06:03, John Henderson wrote: > Hi all, > > I want to draw attention to the correct tag for rest areas, namely > highway:rest_area > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Drest_area > > Most I've seen have been tagged as amenity:parking and/or > tourism:camp_site. The cam

[talk-au] Rest areas

2012-09-19 Thread John Henderson
Hi all, I want to draw attention to the correct tag for rest areas, namely highway:rest_area http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Drest_area Most I've seen have been tagged as amenity:parking and/or tourism:camp_site. The camp_site tag is wildly misleading, as "setting up camp" is p

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries

2012-09-19 Thread Andrew Harvey
On 19/09/12 19:50, Michael Collinson wrote: > FYI, Franc was kind enough to let me have a copy of his original Perl > import script. Email me if you want a copy. However, and I think Franc > would agree, I understand it has really been superceded by the > capabilities of ogr2osm. Emilie Laffray

Re: [talk-au] Aligning steets

2012-09-19 Thread Brett Russell
Oops terminological mistake. Looks like they are "small" roundabouts. Thanks, will do. Cheers Brett Russell PO Box 94 Launceston Tas. 7250 Australia 0419 374 971 On 19/09/2012, at 7:30 PM, "Michael James" wrote: > On 09/19/2012 04:35 PM, Ross Scanlon wrote: >> They are not mini-roundabouts

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries

2012-09-19 Thread Michael Collinson
FYI, Franc was kind enough to let me have a copy of his original Perl import script. Email me if you want a copy. However, and I think Franc would agree, I understand it has really been superceded by the capabilities of ogr2osm. Emilie Laffray said to me in email, "If it is done properly (an

Re: [talk-au] Aligning steets

2012-09-19 Thread Michael James
On 09/19/2012 04:35 PM, Ross Scanlon wrote: > They are not mini-roundabouts if you can not drive over them. > > Look here: > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmini_roundabout > > Also read the Australian Tagging Guidelines here: > > wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Taggin

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries

2012-09-19 Thread Andrew Harvey
Hi Ken, On 19/09/12 11:57, Ken Self wrote: >> In doing a manual load I am ensuring the boundaries share common boundaries > with one another and the multipolygons close off properly. Those are pretty > much impossible to do with an automated load. Even a few manual errors creep > in but they are e

Re: [talk-au] Aligning steets

2012-09-19 Thread Ross Scanlon
They are not mini-roundabouts if you can not drive over them. Look here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmini_roundabout Also read the Australian Tagging Guidelines here: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines mini_roundabout is not determined by size. Aus