Hi Markus
Please don't use sources without checking their license conditions first. The
license that seems to apply is this one:
http://www.naturemaps.sa.gov.au/DataDownloadLicenceAgreement.pdf
Which states:
"The Licensee is not permitted to copy or reproduce the Datasets in any form
for the
From: John Henderson
> I live in Canberra and noticed the same thing some time ago. I haven't
> found an excuse yet to visit the specific area.
>
> But the history seems to indicate that it could be legit:
> http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/16165199/history
GPS trace of someone sever
It seems the shading for marsh / wetland is stuffed up in north-western
Adelaide (Rosewater, Gillman, Wingfield, Pennington, Athol Park), with large
areas marked as marsh that shouldn't be.
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-34.8384&lon=138.5531&zoom=14&layers=0B00FTF
Is this a bug with Osmaren
From: Steve Bennett
> 1) They're clearly mini roundabouts. I go straight over them on my bike.
You're not supposed to go over a roundabout, unless your vehicle's lack of
turning ability necessitates it! :-)
> 2) The roads you've mapped out don't even follow the aerial photos - they cut
> acro
From: Ross Scanlon
> Have a look at Auckland NZ for some really excellent landuse mapping.
Could list members also please take a look at my local area (Alberton,
Rosewater, Pennington SA) where I'm nearly finished putting in all the
footpaths and land use. Please do zoom in and let me know if I
David wrote:
> In summary, it is 21km long and is one-way for 10.5hrs, dual-way
> for
1.5hr, then one-way in the opposite direction for 10.5hrs and
> dual-way again for 1.5hr. Then just for fun, on weekends, the
> day/night pattern is reversed.
David, as a local resident I can tell you the South
John Smith wrote:
> They seem to be
called horse stiles in NZ, or maybe it was a brit
> taking photos in
NZ...
I found the website of an Australian business, Town & Country Maintenance &
Fencing, based in northern Adelaide.
There's a clear picture and a description on this gallery page:
http
John Smith wrote:
> On 11 June 2010 09:55, Roy Wallace wrote:
> > No idea, but FWIW wouldn't highway=give_way be more consistent with
> > other OSM tags? i.e. separating words with an underscore...
> >
>
> There was only 13 of those, so it doesn't seem like many people map
> them, unless people
Ben Last wrote:
> It'd be better like this:
>http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/FTN_CommunicationCity_06t.png
>
>
eDuShi (meaning eCity) has made cool "real" isometric 3D maps of many cities in
China. The style is somewhere in between cartoon and reality, but obviously
much
"ed...@billiau.net" wrote:
> that bridge seems to have a bike track on the eastern side which descends
> into the water
The Wikipedia article on "Ted Smout Memorial Bridge" says "The new bridge
features ... A fishing platform near the Pine River channel. The platform
measures 10 m by 50 m.
John Smith wrote:
> On 12 July 2010 10:05, Simon Biber wrote:
> > What about adding to those tags
> >
> > * leisure: pitch
>
> Didn't seem big enough to play football or cricket...
I don't think size is the deciding factor... pitch is used in genera
John Henderson
> Is the alternative to make (almost) the entire coastline a fishing pitch?
Only where there are designated fishing areas. And by that I mean something
that's visible on the ground, like a place where you can stand and fish. Not
just open water which is covered by some law or re
Hi Ben,
Looks like there are two camps on this.
One says grape-growing is a type of agriculture so we should reuse existing
tags
for farms and their crops:
landuse=farm, crop=grapes, produce=wine
The other says wineries are sufficiently different that they should get their
own tag:
land
Ben Kelley wrote:
>I'm talking about the place you may go to visit (eg cellar door sales) rather
>than the land where the grapes are grown.
In that case shop=alcohol seems to fit. The wiki definition is "A government
owned or licensed store selling alcohol."
In all Australian states, cellar do
If there's a way tagged:
highway=residential
name=Leigh Street
source=survey
And the positioning is obviously sub-standard (such as a single node for a 90
degree turn, where the street actually curves with a radius of 10 to 20
metres),
I would add, say, 4 more nodes to approximate the
James Andrewartha wrote:
> Each state is done once every seven years, that doesn't seem overly frequent
> to
>me.
In my experience electoral redistributions happen after every election (4 years
apart).
A little research shows that in my state, South Australia, members of the House
of Assembl
Ben Last wrote:
> Where a street name is added or corrected via our site, our current approach
> is
>to add or modify the source tag to be "nearmap", but yesterday I was
>(coincidentally) looking at whether we should be appending to any existing
>source so that we don't inadvertently remove at
On Wed, 15 September, 2010 11:28:29 PM, Grant Slater
wrote:
> Just to clarify, we have not concluded discussions with NearMap and
> discussion
>is still positive. The removal of the NearMap option in Potlatch was prompted
>a
>few weeks by back, but was only actioned today.
Who was it prompt
Fabian Schmidt wrote:
> So far 3700 mappers agreed to the new license. Out of 68 million ways 46% are
>created and edited only by people who did accept the ODBL. 42% were not edited
>by a proponent of ODBL, the remaining 12% of the ways have a mixed history.
>You
>will find a map of the ways c
David Murn sent Thu, 3 February, 2011 10:29:35 AM:
> Well, what about salt water lakes? Im aware of at least 2 spots where the
> low
>tide level is below a sand bar, which causes a salt lake to form, so your idea
>of the coastline depends on whether its high tide and the sand bar is covered
Marcus Blake wrote Wed, 23 February, 2011 11:31:50:
>From the ABS point of view the principle reason for doing this is that an the
>OSM database would hold a copy of the official version of the boundaries and
>that this point of truth would be available for all OSM users and downstream
>distri
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