[talk-au] Invisible POI's

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 ca

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2010/1/3 Richard Colless : > 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 JOSM), but doesn

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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

John Smith wrote: > The other very useful thing is to tag maxspeed=* limits, although I > noticed a couple of speed_camera tags tagged with the speed limit > also... On this issue, I've noticed that adding the maxspeed tag to ways does influence routing choice on Garmins (when they're set to use

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I wrote: > So bizarrely, if I set up mkgmap so that the highway=unclassified and > surface=unpaved combination means a speed of 70 km/h then the simulation > is done at 70 km/h. Done in the mkgmap "lines" style file like this: highway=unclassified & surface=unpaved [0x06 road_class=0 road_spee

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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

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On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 10:13 PM, John Smith 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 > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pr

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2010/1/4 Roy Wallace : > 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 other hand, JOSM's p

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On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:14 AM, John Henderson 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 _

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Steve Bennett wrote: > On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:14 AM, John Henderson > 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. > >

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2010/1/4 John Henderson : > Steve Bennett wrote: >> On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:14 AM, John Henderson > > 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 >>    

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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 bi

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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 warning

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2010/1/5 Elizabeth Dodd : > 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... http://www.mainroads.qld.gov.au/en/Driving-in-Queens

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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

2010/1/5 John Henderson : > 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

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John Smith wrote: > 2010/1/5 John Henderson : >> 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 Intere

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On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 2:02 PM, John Henderson 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 worke