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of columns and still have about 1,500 entries left over with nothing to say
what they are.
It not all bad though, some road sections have anything up to 8 entries.
I'd try to sort some of it out but I keep getting confused and don't want to
make mistakes and make worser.
mick
anything you change in the base data will offend someone
* I find editing in mapinfo far simpler than the alternatives.
mick
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On saturday night I made my first edit, adding a couple of streets that
appeared to be missing and naming an unnamed street in Glen Innes NSW. I used
Mercaartor (SP) included in ubuntu 14.04.2. When I got JOSM working yesterday I
looked at two of the streets and there appeared to be two versions
old country lane (standard of construction and maintainence) it has been for
years and there is no sign of any motorway construction anywhere.
mick in Glen Innes
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On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 11:17:30 +1100
Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've noted that some (if not all) of the Australian Square Kilometer
> Telescope north east of Murchison WA is entered (and has been for some
> time) in OSM but it does not show up on my Garmin maps.
>
> 26.7S
public tennis courts (eg at a sporting facility, vs
> private tennis courts in backyards (access=private?)
> * similarly for swimming pools
>
My tuppence worth:
It would (possibly) be useful to map significant private homes otherwise just
tag the blocks as residential area.
m
x27;ve collected I plan to drive as many roads in
my area of interest (Glen Innes, NSW) several times with my two GPS units
recording and find an acceptable level of coincidence before I add anything to
OSM.
Mick aka 'sparrowhawk'
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hire, a dumb mistake that in Britain would be minor but in
an Australian context, when combined with the absolute faith people place in
computers, leads them to ignore obvious valid indicators and turn off major
highways on to tracks leading nowhere. The Australian bush is unforgiving and
will s
ication of the data a largely manual job.
I'm sure this is far from insurmountable, I just can't get my head around it.
mick
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On Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:06:27 +1030
Alex Sims wrote:
> On 26/11/2012 10:38 AM, mick wrote:
> > I'm in two minds about removing 'historical' data.
> >
> > Yes, objects no longer visible on the ground shouldn't be rendered on the
> > map.
> I'
tt
I'm in two minds about removing 'historical' data.
Yes, objects no longer visible on the ground shouldn't be rendered on the map.
BUT, by default, OSM has become a source for mappers doing more than mere
street maps and the loss of historical data w
tt
I'm in two minds about removing 'historical' data.
Yes, objects no longer visible on the ground shouldn't be rendered on the map.
BUT, by default, OSM has become a source for mappers doing more than mere
street maps and the loss of historical data w
mp; desecration are more recent and increasingly relevant factors,
every thing from yobs gouging their names across rock art to government
contractors with bulldozers and high explosives blasting sites out of existence.
mick
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tribes even the location of sacred sites
is only available to initiated members of the tribe and only recognisable to
those initiates. This makes them rather difficult to map whereas military and
nuclear sites are usually recognisable on remote sensing i
ape the insanity of the big city. I'm sure
I'm not the only person who has a use for this data.
Different LGAs have a number of factors that make then better or worse places
to live E.G. Rates & charges, delivery of services, insurance costs.
I also need postcode data to simplify r
> Does anyone have the skills and tools to import them?
Due to a death in the family I don't have the time to devote to the project at
this time.
mick the sparrowhawk
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t;natural" is completely inappropriate, if you
need redundant tags use "man_made"
mick
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es or
MapInfo tabs. From memory the mapping ranges from 1973 to 2001 and publication
dates to 2006.
According to the website (
https://www.ga.gov.au/products/servlet/controller?event=DEFINE_PRODUCTS ) the
data is released under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia Licence.
On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:46:50 +1000
Stephen Hope wrote:
> On 11 December 2011 11:54, mick wrote:
>
> >
> > In northern Brisbane I have yet to see anything that shows you are moving
> > into a 50kph default zone.
>
>
> In Queensland the 50kph limit applies t
tricky to know, especially if tracing.
>
> In the ACT 50km/h is the default if there are no signs. NSW posts "50
> km/h area" signs around the place to cover all roads within that area.
> Not sure about other states that I rarely visit. In any case, you're
> right that
7;d prefer highway=rural_road or similar because unclassified seems too much
like incompletely entered, then again I think "highway=" is a bad choice but
its so deeply embedded now.
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On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 08:28:24 +0100
"waldo000...@gmail.com" wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 8:17 AM, mick wrote:
>
> > ...
> > > place=township
> > > place:important=yes (perhaps not necessary, but hopefully you get the
> > gist)
> > > p
y, but hopefully you get the gist)
> place:isolated=yes
>
> Then, if a renderer wants to put "small but important isolated townships on
> the map", it can!
Obviously the renderer is broken and should be fixed rather than spam the
'tag-space' with more junk.
mick
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