Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-19 Thread David Bannon
On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 10:32 +1100, mick wrote: > To gain some confidence in what I'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. M

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-19 Thread mick
On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 08:34:46 +1100 David Bannon wrote: > On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 19:13 +1100, Andrew Harvey wrote: > > Just a heads up that GA have a tile service for their NATMAP 250K Topo > Maps. > > > > Thanks Andrew, I thought the list might be interested in a few comments > about this servic

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-19 Thread David Bannon
On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 19:13 +1100, Andrew Harvey wrote: > Just a heads up that GA have a tile service for their NATMAP 250K Topo Maps. > Thanks Andrew, I thought the list might be interested in a few comments about this service. Firstly, really cool that they are doing it ! Putting aside the li

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-15 Thread David Bannon
On Fri, 2013-11-15 at 18:30 +1100, Andrew Harvey wrote: > > but I don't see the benifit in hosting them when GA already do a > pretty good job at this. If your application doesn't support z/y/x > then patch it, and if you can't it would be much simpler to just proxy > the GA tile server to giv

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-15 Thread Paul Norman
> From: Andrew Harvey [mailto:andrew.harv...@gmail.com] > Subject: Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps > > > We'd have to get confirmation that data source was happy with > > attribution in accordance with ODbL sections 4.2 and 4.3 which are > > "

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-14 Thread Andrew Harvey
On 14 November 2013 10:36, Paul Norman wrote: > If there's ECW files > where it would be beneficial to host them, I could do or someone else > could. They are at http://www.ga.gov.au/products/servlet/controller?event=PRODUCT_SELECTION&keyword=natmap but I don't see the benifit in hosting them wh

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-14 Thread David Bannon
, glad the situation has improved. David On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 15:36 -0800, Paul Norman wrote: > > From: David Bannon [mailto:dban...@internode.on.net] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 2:13 PM > > Subject: Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps > > > > Th

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-13 Thread Paul Norman
> From: David Bannon [mailto:dban...@internode.on.net] > Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 2:13 PM > Subject: Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps > > Then the license holder withdrew the ecw plugin for GDAL... There's still an ECW plugin for GDAL. It requires the

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-13 Thread David Bannon
Ah, z/y/x ? that makes sense. FoxtrotGPS does not do z/y/x. Just what I'd expect from GA, worked with them indirectly some time ago. Another life. I also played with pulling png tiles out of the GA ECW maps but gave up dealing with their website, they made endless changes that broke firefox each

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-13 Thread Andrew Harvey
On 13 November 2013 22:01, David Bannon wrote: > Interesting Andrew. Do you know much about this service ? I know that they also publish the original ECW files, which I originally converted to JPEG and hosted on my own server as a service which converted these into web map tiles, until I found th

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-13 Thread David Bannon
Interesting Andrew. Do you know much about this service ? I have been trying to display it in FoxtrotGPS which normally uses OSM or Google tiles. But I find two puzzling things - 1. While I request png files I seem to get JPEG 2. Their Y and X number system seems to be miles away from where I'd

[talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-13 Thread Andrew Harvey
Just a heads up that GA have a tile service for their NATMAP 250K Topo Maps. So if you add this to JOSM/etc you can use this as a base layer to derive information from. http://www.ga.gov.au/gisimg/rest/services/topography/NATMAP_Digital_Maps_250K_2008Ed ition_WM/MapServer/tile/{zoom}/{y}/{x}