Re: [talk-au] GPS accuracy

2012-09-20 Thread Russell Edwards
Hi all, On this topic -- for what it's worth I have written a JOSM plugin to help with GPS accuracy in the case of having multiple tracks covering the same . You can highlight a set of GPX tracks along a straight path (or taken from a fixed position) and it will a) average them all to find t

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 63, Issue 26

2012-09-20 Thread cam_daw
> Stephen wrote > > "there is now a need for using mini-roundabout in Australia." > I always like to simplify things (maybe too much sometimes). > > How about If the approaches to the intersection/junction have > "roundabout signs" then it is a roundabout, roundabout laws apply and we > s

Re: [talk-au] GPS accuracy

2012-09-20 Thread Brett Russell
Hi all Interesting discussion and thanks for confirming that WAAS is not an option in Australia so I will switch it off. Subtle details like this get missed in various reviews and also means that USA and now likely European reviews with claims of accruacy need have factored in that WAAS migh

Re: [talk-au] GPS accuracy

2012-09-20 Thread John Henderson
On 20/09/12 22:27, Peter Hoban wrote: Discovering the accuracy of a unit is easy. Find a convenient spot near your house and with your GPS record its position. Come back next day (or at least a few hours later) and do it again. Repeat daily until you are sick of it and you will then have a go

Re: [talk-au] Aligning steets

2012-09-20 Thread Nick Hocking
Stephen wrote "I'd be just a happy to use a normal roundabout way, and mark it as traversable with traversable=yes" Yes - an excellent suggestion. Nick ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Aligning steets

2012-09-20 Thread Stephen Hope
I'm not saying that a mini-roundabout isn't a roundabout, it is, and all the normal signs and laws apply. What it also is, however, is traversable. If you have a vehicle that cannot go around it, because it is too large, then you're allowed to go over it. I'd be just a happy to use a normal round

[talk-au] GPS accuracy

2012-09-20 Thread Peter Hoban
On 20/09/2012 3:49 PM, Brett Russell signalled: Been reading up on GPS accuracy and playing with averaging waypoints on the Garmin 62S and have realised that WAAS does not work outside the USA and for some units better to have it switched off. If I wrong in my understanding please let me know. I

Re: [talk-au] Aligning steets

2012-09-20 Thread Nick Hocking
Stephen wrote "there is now a need for using mini-roundabout in Australia." I always like to simplify things (maybe too much sometimes). How about If the approaches to the intersection/junction have "roundabout signs" then it is a roundabout, roundabout laws apply and we should tag it junct

Re: [talk-au] Aligning steets

2012-09-20 Thread John Henderson
On 20/09/12 18:37, Stephen Hope wrote: Mini-roundabout doesn't mean you can legally drive over it in any vehicle, it means that you can physically drive over it if you need to. The australian guidelines are wrong, in this case. And yes, I know how they evolved to this state, I've kept up on the

Re: [talk-au] Aligning steets

2012-09-20 Thread Stephen Hope
On 20 September 2012 09:41, Ross Scanlon wrote: > Yes it is a small roundabout as you can not legally drive over it unless > it is impractical to do so. > > The vehicle in the street view is clearly about to drive around the center > island. Whereas if it was a truck/bus/caravan it would be able