Re: [talk-au] Cycle path under railway

2009-12-29 Thread Geoff
Hi Steve I am busy trying to get to understand how to connect the bits in a relation. Not getting far but I want to read a bit more before I ask teh dumb questions here. Yes I am planning on getting to the Warragul-Drouin two towns trail. My wife has done no exercise for years and we are

Re: [talk-au] Cycle path under railway

2009-12-29 Thread John Smith
2009/12/29 Geoff gjn@gmail.com: Hi Steve I am busy trying to get to understand how to connect the bits in a relation. Not getting far but I want to read a bit more before I ask teh dumb questions here. I can't tell you in potlatch, but it's dead simple in JOSM, you just select them and

Re: [talk-au] Cycle path under railway

2009-12-29 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 10:42 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/12/29 Geoff gjn@gmail.com: Hi Steve I am busy trying to get to understand how to connect the bits in a relation. Not getting far but I want to read a bit more before I ask teh dumb questions here.

Re: [talk-au] Cycle path under railway

2009-12-29 Thread Geoff
Thank You Steve and John I think I did it correctly please have a look at the Warragul Linear Trail http://www.bawbawshire.vic.gov.au/Page/page.asp?Page_Id=1166h=0 pdf download from there. I have not completed surveying the whole trail but that will come. Along with the others in the region

Re: [talk-au] Cycle path under railway

2009-12-28 Thread Liz
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009, Geoff wrote: Geoff New to OSM New to Warragul New to Australia and that is why I am here I started using OSM on my South Africa bought Garmin and started a new hobby of mapping. :) welcome but beware our sense of humour ___

Re: [talk-au] Cycle path under railway

2009-12-28 Thread Evan Sebire
From memory isn't the train line raised for a long sections including the station. So using the bridge=yes or bridge=viaduct on the train line would be appropriate with the layer tag as Ross suggested. I think the Alfread St road crossing should be under the train track from memory?

Re: [talk-au] Cycle path under railway

2009-12-28 Thread John Henderson
Geoff wrote: Hello I am slowly mapping parts of Warragul and cycled the shared use path in Linear park. The cycles track runs under the Bairnsdale line railway at one point and I was wondering how to map this. I thought about making two points on the way a bridge but JOSM would not allow

Re: [talk-au] Cycle path under railway

2009-12-28 Thread John Henderson
I wrote: As a relative newcomer myself, it's occurred to me that you might be trying constructing a bridge over the cycle path by modifying that path. But you'd need to modify the railway line to make a bridge over the path. In that case, tag a section of line with: bridge=yes

Re: [talk-au] Cycle path under railway

2009-12-28 Thread Ross Scanlon
On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 18:45:40 +1100 Geoff gjn@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the help in advance. You may also want to have a look at: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines As I noticed you tagged a set of

Re: [talk-au] Cycle path under railway

2009-12-28 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 6:45 PM, Geoff gjn@gmail.com wrote: Which raises another point how do I link all the bits that I have mapped into one one way or put in a relation to make it a route. Or do I just work around it by naming all the bits as Linear park track? A relation is best for