Resent, because I accidently only sent it to David
On 21/06/2009, at 4:56 PM, David Dean wrote:
Of course, if the number of kilometres is always the same you could
easily
work out where the location is anyway by looking at the blank hole
in all
their traces, helpfully centred on their
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, James Livingston wrote:
While I'd prefer that you can't tell exactly where I live, I reckon it
would be pretty difficult to stop someone from finding out which
suburb I live in.
I have deliberately looked to see from where editors come
so when i find that someone who
--- On Thu, 25/6/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
But if I think I'm encroaching on a local's territory I'll
try to contact them
to discuss things.
So I do look to see who lives where
:-)
You only care about what town or suburb some is in, the discussion was on a
little more accurate,
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, John Smith wrote:
You only care about what town or suburb some is in, the discussion was on a
little more accurate, down to the street or even the house they live or
place of work.
There can be all sort of reasons people don't care if you know the
town/suburb, but on the
On 25/06/2009, at 8:38 PM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
Yes, and I've tried to be a bit obscure about my location, but if
you know my
name, everyone in town knows which is my house.
One person well known to me put his marker in the local cemetery.
Yeah, small country towns are a whole different
Of course, if the number of kilometres is always the same you could easily
work out where the location is anyway by looking at the blank hole in all
their traces, helpfully centred on their house.
John Smith-129 wrote:
It'd be nicer to just have any points within so many km radius of any
If one was really trying to hunt someone down with OSM, a carefull
study of their edit history would most likely reveal information about
their location anyway.
I previously had all my traces private. Then, I realised that if someone
wanted to track me down, they could just look me up in the
--- On Sun, 21/6/09, Darrin Smith bel...@beldin.org wrote:
If one was really trying to hunt someone down with OSM, a
carefull
study of their edit history would most likely reveal
information about
their location anyway.
Yet another reason to become a grey nomad? (even if you aren't grey
--- On Sun, 21/6/09, Andy Owen andy-...@ultra-premium.com wrote:
I previously had all my traces private. Then, I realised
that if someone
wanted to track me down, they could just look me up in the
phone book...
or ask me.
You should check out Telstra's profit sheets some time on silent
Darrin Smith wrote:
If one was really trying to hunt someone down with OSM, a carefull
study of their edit history would most likely reveal information about
their location anyway.
Yes, but long term I can see people using openstreetmap data just for
navigation, and having their traces
On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 06:06:56 -0700 (PDT)
John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote:
--- On Sat, 20/6/09, John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote:
No one replied to my thread on gpsbabel, it can apparently
exclude areas, and at the same time anonymise the time
stamps and probably a
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote:
JOSM and
mercaator(sp?) are more sophisticated eg do proper
Mercator is a projection, how to turn a sphere like object into a flat one
Merkaator is the program the writer was trying to recall.
___
Talk-au
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, John Smith wrote:
Merkaator is the program the writer was trying to recall.
And I thought re-using acronyms were bad.
No proof for this...
Mercator is the Latin version of the bloke's name. Common for academics then
to Latinise their names.
He was Flemish.
--- On Wed, 17/6/09, Dan O'Hara oha...@homemail.com.au wrote:
I have two immediate questions
(actually I have a lot but
these have been preying on my mind as a result of my
breach). When you go
to an attraction, be it an outdoor winery/farm tour or say,
fun park or caravan
park, are the
--- On Wed, 17/6/09, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote:
See if the way has a source tag if it does and this is
other than survey or gps then it's generally fair game to
move it.
There is more ways than I care to count that are marked as survey that were
poorly traced.
I don't have a
: [talk-au] Hi all ...
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 20:20:21 +1000
Dan O'Hara oha...@homemail.com.au wrote:
I have two immediate questions (actually I have a lot but these have been
preying on my mind as a result of my breach). When you go to an
attraction,
be it an outdoor winery/farm tour
Thanks for your comments everyone. More reading.
Delta Foxtrot - I access OSM through GPS traces/see your traces link then
edit (another person uploaded a lot of my tracks before I came to OSM but
put my username in the tag so I could find and fix, do POIs, road surfaces
etc). It is
On Wed, 17 Jun 2009 05:30:43 -0700 (PDT)
Delta Foxtrot delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote:
I don't have a problem with uploading gps traces to osm but
I can see no benifit if I'm just going to edit them in josm
anyway and given that they are all one second data that's a
lot of data to put on
--- On Wed, 17/6/09, Dan O'Hara oha...@homemail.com.au wrote:
Delta Foxtrot – I access OSM
through “GPS traces/see
your traces” link then “edit” (another
person uploaded a lot
of my tracks before I came to OSM but put my username in
the tag so I could
find and “fix”, do POIs, road surfaces
I've ever used Potlatch-I was nervous about having an editor that was
always live - no 'edit-check-save' cycle. I understand that has
recently changed, but the point is it's not that hard to use some of
the other options.
Stephen
2009/6/17 Dan O'Hara oha...@homemail.com.au:
As a total newbie to
Sorry- that should be _Never_ used potlatch
2009/6/18 Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com:
I've ever used Potlatch-I was nervous about having an editor that was
always live - no 'edit-check-save' cycle. I understand that has
recently changed, but the point is it's not that hard to use some of
the
--- On Wed, 17/6/09, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote:
Why should I. No where in osm does it state that a
GPX file has to be
uploaded.
You don't have to upload anything to OSM, but you should if you care for the
accuracy of the information you'll upload the gpx files which will give
Who said I was trivialising the problems, I only gave an
example I can
think of at least 50 possible errors when using gps.
I'm not going to
list every possibility every time I make a comment.
If you make specific claims then people will assume that's all you had in
mind.
What specific
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