Re: [talk-au] Mapping houses and addresses in Sydney

2018-06-03 Thread osm.talk-au
From: Andrew Harvey Sent: Monday, 4 June 2018 05:13 To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [talk-au] Mapping houses and addresses in Sydney What do you mean by "ESRI as a base map" do you mean the "ESRI World Imagery" available in ID and JOSM? ESRI's map layers are not allowed, just

Re: [talk-au] Mapping houses and addresses in Sydney

2018-06-03 Thread Warin
+1 for the LIP Imagery and Base Map. I have been doing a few places - the shopping areas for tourist spots as that is where I think most of navigation demand is. At the centres of a block the street name is fairly obvious. The corners can be tricky for the street name .. but if the number

Re: [talk-au] Mapping houses and addresses in Sydney

2018-06-03 Thread Andrew Harvey
On 3 June 2018 at 21:48, Dion Moult wrote: > > I've started using OSM more and more and I find it frustrating that many > house addresses are not available in OSM. I would like to help by tracing > many houses using ESRI as a base map (feel free to audit my history on OSM > under the name

Re: [talk-au] poor business listing edits

2018-06-03 Thread Andrew Harvey
Thanks Andy for the update and everyone else for monitoring this. > * and separating the spammers from the poor single-business owners trying to add their legit businesses to OSM, of course. Any legitimate single-business owners would probably not follow the exact same recipe book the spammers

Re: [talk-au] Mapping houses and addresses in Sydney

2018-06-03 Thread Joel H.
OSM is permitted to use the LPI Base Map, This contains street number where they are. However I am not from NSW so I can't say how accurate LPI is. You are best to do a ground survey, the Android app StreetComplete is good for this as long as the houses have been mapped already. If you wish to