Re: [talk-au] Invisible POI's

2010-01-04 Thread John Smith
2010/1/4 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: Steve Bennett wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:14 AM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com mailto:snow...@gmx.com wrote:     and always takes the speed up to the next step for a simulation.  So if     maxspeed=50 or maxspeed=60, then 70 km/h is simulated.  

Re: [talk-au] Invisible POI's

2010-01-04 Thread John Henderson
Liz wrote: On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, John Smith wrote: It also didn't appear on my Garmin when I approached it. No idea how to get these show up on garmin's, although I'm guessing as some kind of POI that will give you warnings when you are coming close to them. They are in a binary file which

Re: [talk-au] Invisible POI's

2010-01-04 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, John Henderson wrote: Liz wrote: On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, John Smith wrote: It also didn't appear on my Garmin when I approached it. No idea how to get these show up on garmin's, although I'm guessing as some kind of POI that will give you warnings when you are coming

Re: [talk-au] Invisible POI's

2010-01-04 Thread John Smith
2010/1/5 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net: The hassle with those custom POIs is needing the windows stuff to upload them. Otherwise making the list from OSM data is a programming job. Garmin POI format looks like an icon file + csv file inside a zip file...

Re: [talk-au] Invisible POI's

2010-01-04 Thread John Henderson
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: The hassle with those custom POIs is needing the windows stuff to upload them. Otherwise making the list from OSM data is a programming job. I haven't found the need to load POIs from OSM into either of my Garmin units (Nuvi 1250 and PGSmap 76 CSx) yet. The OSM maps in

Re: [talk-au] Invisible POI's

2010-01-04 Thread John Smith
2010/1/5 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: The OSM maps in Garmin format already fully integrate the POIs. But do they give you proximity warnings? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Invisible POI's

2010-01-04 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: 2010/1/5 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: The OSM maps in Garmin format already fully integrate the POIs. But do they give you proximity warnings? No, I realised that fully was a mistake after I sent that. What I should have said is that OSM POIs all come up under Points of

Re: [talk-au] Invisible POI's

2010-01-04 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:02 PM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: No, I realised that fully was a mistake after I sent that. What I should have said is that OSM POIs all come up under Points of Interest in the same way as the ones in the Garmin maps do. Yeah, I'm impressed how well that

[talk-au] Invisible POI's

2010-01-03 Thread Richard Colless
The trip to Timor Caves went well - now have "tourist" POI's for four of the caves, although it's a brave tourist that will use them. Also managed to survey most of the streets of Murrurundi, NSW. During this job, I noticed some interesting POI's. Just North of Murrurundi, there is a speed

Re: [talk-au] Invisible POI's

2010-01-03 Thread John Smith
2010/1/3 Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au: During this job, I noticed some interesting POI's. Just North of Murrurundi, there is a speed camera that someone has added. It's visible when in Edit That would be my handy work :) I've marked in quite a few I had co-ords for... mode (Potlatch or

Re: [talk-au] Invisible POI's

2010-01-03 Thread John Henderson
Richard Colless wrote: The trip to Timor Caves went well - now have tourist POI's for four of the caves, although it's a brave tourist that will use them. Also managed to survey most of the streets of Murrurundi, NSW. During this job, I noticed some interesting POI's. Just North of

Re: [talk-au] Invisible POI's

2010-01-03 Thread Roy Wallace
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 10:13 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Speed cameras are a bit of a mess tagging wise, some add a node others add a relation, but I don't think any method renders on OSM... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Speed_trap

Re: [talk-au] Invisible POI's

2010-01-03 Thread John Smith
2010/1/4 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: For the record, being a bit of a mess tagging wise is not true. This relation (approved) should be used: Approved just means 17 people (out of 25 that voted, out of maybe 100,000 mappers at the time) thought it was an ok way to do things. On the

Re: [talk-au] Invisible POI's

2010-01-03 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:14 AM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: and always takes the speed up to the next step for a simulation. So if maxspeed=50 or maxspeed=60, then 70 km/h is simulated. 70 and 80 get simulated as 90, and so on. Bizarre. Any idea why? Steve