Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 107, Issue 4

2016-05-05 Thread Simon Slater
On Thu, 5 May 2016 09:50:58 AM Timothy Ney wrote: > If for example, we demote all of the "towns" between Rockhampton > and Mackay to Hamlets or Villages, we are going to have 300 km of highway > with nothing shown at higher levels. At present, each of the small towns > (may have 1 pub, some

Re: [talk-au] place=? An oldie but no past conclusion.

2016-05-05 Thread Simon Slater
On Thu, 5 May 2016 10:10:35 AM Ian Sergeant wrote: > 1. Any attempt to make something render on sparse parts of the map, is > a rendering issue. Any renderer is free to pre-process the data based > on a population and remoteness algorithm if they wish. > > 2. Personally, I make anything a town

Re: [talk-au] osmaustralia.org website and Garmin .img files - current status ?

2016-05-05 Thread Matt White
My apologies - fixing that process has been on my list for a long time (years...). The computer it runs on for some reason just shuts down randomly, so I often boot it up at work and let it run, but it doesn't stay up long enough to get through a generation run. I moved most of the scripts

Re: [talk-au] osmaustralia.org website and Garmin .img files -, current status ?

2016-05-05 Thread Ian Bennett
Ian, I haven't used that site for ages. I get the australia-oceania pbf file from geofabrik.de (updated daily) and use splitter.jar and mkgmap.jar (both from www.mkgmap.org.uk) to create my own gmapsupp.img file (I'm still using a GPSMap 60CSx). I do this mainly because I can