Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 65, Issue 15

2012-11-20 Thread wil ly
catalogued here: http://ozroads.com.au/) and all he has done in giving it to me is provide a collection of freely available information. He doesn't want TMR listed as a source as it has not been subject to QA. Wil On 21 November 2012 15:13, wil ly wrote: > Ok, will do. > > > On 21

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 65, Issue 15

2012-11-20 Thread wil ly
t; > On 21 November 2012 13:00, wil ly wrote: > >> RE: tourist drives >> >> I just noticed today that Google Maps has tourist route shields, eg: >> https://www.google.com/maps?q=-28.333093,152.296257&hl=en&ll=-28.289266,152.124252&spn=0.500638,0.696945&

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 65, Issue 15

2012-11-20 Thread wil ly
RE: tourist drives I just noticed today that Google Maps has tourist route shields, eg: https://www.google.com/maps?q=-28.333093,152.296257&hl=en&ll=-28.289266,152.124252&spn=0.500638,0.696945&num=1&t=m&z=11 In this example, however, only the initial shield is displayed (possibly reflecting a pau

Re: [talk-au] scenic routes

2012-11-07 Thread wil ly
Hi guys, I have discovered, finally, a couple of resources for tourist drives (as indicated by numbered brown signs). 1. DERM's physical roads dataset dated 28/9/2010 has a TOURNUM field, but this only seems to contain a few tourist drives: 1, 5, 8, 9, 10, 16, 22, 23, 42, 43, 99, LA and z (the la

[talk-au] scenic routes

2012-11-07 Thread wil ly
Hi all, I have an angle for updating OSM. I want to find a file of all scenic drives. The ones sign posted with brown signs that you see when driving. For all my Googling, I can't seem to find a map or a file of these. It would be good to tag all such roads in OSM so it's easy to plan scenic trips

[talk-au] brisbane mapping party

2012-09-27 Thread wil ly
Hi, I'm back in Brisbane after 11 months in Cambodia on a GIS placement funded by Engineers Without Borders. I want to keep participating in OSM, in Cambodia we ran 3 mapping parties. Let me know if there is anything going on I can join or if anyone wants to start a mapping party we can get toget