Re: [talk-au] Using OSM Inspector

Brett Russell wrote: One strange thing though. In Polatch 2 the lake is no longer coloured blue like other lakes. Is this a side effect of having an island? Not sure if its related, but see this message from Richard (the Potlatch author) about a lake a few thousand KM away: http://lists

Re: [talk-au] Making Garmin IMG for Bushwalking - Insanity starts

Brett Russell wrote: Ok the first step is getting the OSM data. I am aware that http://download.geofabrik.de/ provides .pbf files but for Australia it is 145MB. Bit much of a download for a mobile phone given that I am looking to update Tassie every week So does anyone know where I will f

Re: [talk-au] JOSM and losing Bing Hi Res zoom recently

Jason Ward wrote: Extra / New Info. The OSM iD (in-browser) editor is also not showing the Bing Hi res images (so its not just me!) Something has happened recently. I'd be interested to here from other BNE mappers because I am confuzzled. Not just Australia either - someone on IRC ment

[talk-au] Motorway edits in NSW / Vic

Just for a info, the people on the talk-gb list have noticed a number of edits upgrading unfinished motorways to "constructed" status. The same user has made similar edits in Australia, the most recent of which is: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/20479197 Are these valid (i.e. have the

Re: [talk-au] Motorway edits in NSW / Vic

Leon Kernan wrote: Sorry guys, another one. This change is just pure vandalism. He's created non-existent freeways and roads around Ballarat. http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/20425446 Has anyone got any idea about the NSW ones such as: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/20409456

Re: [talk-au] Motorway edits in NSW / Vic

Stéphane Guillou wrote: but has anyone written to ask them to justify their edits? Yes - one of the Scottish guys who spotted the problems north of Edinburgh in the UK. I mentioned it here because I figured that not too many people would be suscribed to both talk-gb and talk-au. Cheer

Re: [talk-au] Motorway edits in NSW / Vic

Leon Kernan wrote: What a mess. I've been trying to revert his edits with not much luck. There is a problem with relations that i can't get the revert tool to figure out. Can someone with a bit more experience with JOSM and reverter please take a look at changeset #20390092 ? I'll have a g

Re: [talk-au] Motorway edits in NSW / Vic

SomeoneElse wrote: Leon Kernan wrote: What a mess. I've been trying to revert his edits with not much luck. There is a problem with relations that i can't get the revert tool to figure out. Can someone with a bit more experience with JOSM and reverter please take a look at

Re: [talk-au] Motorway edits in NSW / Vic

There seem to be a lot of deletions in this and subsequent changesets: http://www.openstreetmap.org/changeset/20555081 Are they valid? Cheers, Andy ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Automating the replacement of abbreviation of street names

Frank wrote: I'm toying with automating the replacement of abbreviation of street names e.g. St to Street, Ave to Avenue etc. I think that people in the USA had similar issues with TIGER data and created a bunch of tools to do the conversions. It might be worth asking somewhere that USA folk

Re: [talk-au] Cycling network tag

On 08/12/2014 11:25, Steve Bennett wrote: It was quite an eye opener for me earlier this year to cycle in the UK to discover that they really do have LCN, RCN, and NCN. And they're slightly different from what I expected: NCN is basically a network that links towns together, LCN and other st

Re: [talk-au] Bruxner Motorway

On 24/01/2015 11:41, Leon Kernan wrote: It may have been a few years since I've been to northern NSW, however this doesn't look right to me. http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/-28.8528/153.4695 Anyone familiar with the area able to confirm there is/isn't a brand new Bruxner Motorway between

[talk-au] BYO restaurants

Hi - quick question - what's the normal way to indicate BYO vs licenced restaurants? Cheers, Andy ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] BYO restaurants

On 24/01/2011 23:08, John Smith wrote: Not all restaurants are licensed... amenity=restaurant licensed=yes/no/byo Sounds good to me - thanks. Cheers, Andy ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/t

Re: [talk-au] BYO restaurants

On 26/01/2011 16:12, David Murn wrote: The only issue I would have, is with the spelling of licence. Steve suggested licensed but as OSM is traditionally British English, shouldnt licenced=yes/no be used? taginfo shows licenced=yes has 2 usages where licensed=yes has 9, so its early enough to s

Re: [talk-au] Vandalism by "99scilla111"

On 31/08/2011 01:08, Pete Ramjet wrote: Noticed this morning that user "99scilla111 " has vandalised a large number of roads/buildings/etc since 12 August. It really annoys me when somebody goes out of their way to detroy the good work of other pe

Re: [talk-au] Thoughts on co-ordinating re-mapping

On 02/12/2011 04:47, El Segundo Can't win wrote: There are two types of re-mapping - on the ground re-mapping, and desktop re-mapping. There's also arguably a third - re-adding edits lost as a result of removal of non-CT edits using notes taken at the time of the original on-the-ground mapp

Re: [talk-au] maxspeed removal

Steve Bennett wrote: Btw, how does Potlatch etc determine whether an object is "tainted"? Does it look at all the changesets that affect the object, or is it able to determine the source of each key? I believe that it uses Frederik's quick history service here: http://wtfe.gryph.de/ One other

Re: [talk-au] BP service station import

Ian Sergeant wrote: Can we do some pre-work prior to considering any new import? Check if the dataset is really up-to-date and sufficiently accurate? Check how many existing service stations are nearby, and consider not placing a new service station where there is a similar one there already?

Re: [talk-au] I feel like such a newbie

Brett Russell wrote: 'Java' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file. That just means that Java isn't on your path. Where Java.exe will be will depend on your version of windows, and which version of Java you installed. You'll probably find it so

Re: [talk-au] I feel like such a newbie

FWIW recent splitter and mkgmap versions should work OK with pbf files, I think. (although I still convert to .osm myself, using osmconvert: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Osmconvert ) Cheers, Andy ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetm

Re: [talk-au] Redaction progress

John Henderson wrote: I wonder if the untagged nodes are scheduled to be cleaned up automatically? Those tended to crop up even vefore the redaction process (failed imports etc.) and people used to tidy them evey now and again (hopefully after checking that they're not part of something, or

Re: [talk-au] Question about relations

Adrian Plaskitt wrote: My specific question is, when the route passes down only part of a way, say just a few blocks of a longer street, how do you assign the relation to just a few internodes. Is it necessary to split the ways at the nodes and then just assign the relation to the segments bet

Re: [talk-au] Sydney Circular Quay missing

Ben Kelley wrote: Most of Circular Quay, east of Pitt St seems to have disappeared. Seems to be change 14271851. Could someone revert this? I've reverted it. I'll send a polite message to the mapper - it looks like a "I just want to create a simple map for my hotel reception" Cheers, And

Re: [talk-au] Suburbs in Australia

Darren Burt wrote: "See the recent discussion on this list for town vs city, in the OSM sense." Can you provide a direct link or forward information on this? The list archives are here: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-au/ and the city thread started here: http://lists.openst

[talk-au] Adding only part of a road to a route relation (was: network and route tags)

On 03/02/2013 12:22, David Clark wrote: ie I have a route (The Mawson trail) that passes along a section of a fire road, but it doesn't pass along the full length of the fire road. How do a I select only a section of the fire road (not the full length of it) so I can make the relationship to th

Re: [talk-au] Any sensible way to establish who is changing objects?

Brett Russell wrote: I am working my way around the State and noticed a few edits to tracks that I have put in. The history function option in Polatch 2 is annoying as it gets swamped with global changes. That sounds like you're talking about the "history" tab on the main site - it does ge

Re: [talk-au] JOSM and OSM reliability!

Brett Russell wrote: In all very frustrating as I do more complex mapping task. One thought that springs to mind is, the next time something seems to be going a bit wrong, perhaps try and talk to someone "live" in one of the IRC channels? The main international one "#osm" has people in it

Re: [talk-au] park vs nature reserve

Paul Norman wrote: It's important to remember that leisure=park doesn't apply to all parks. I'm guessing that the second "park" in that sentence is used in the North American "national/state park" sense whereas the one in the original question usage sounded closer to British English usage*.