Re: [talk-au] Mapping a blank spot

2010-07-21 Thread Peter Ross
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:42 PM, John Smith > wrote: >> I just want more people to contribute maxspeed information to make >> routing more useful, and if people see maxspeed tags everywhere I was >> hoping they'd either fix them if wrong,

Re: [talk-au] Mapping a blank spot

2010-07-21 Thread John Smith
On 22 July 2010 14:55, {Tim} wrote: > I, obviously, agree. This situation (speed limits in either direction > bearing no relation to one another) is perhaps more common than you > realise. and upon further thought, apart from trivial cases why should > it not be so? The trouble is the current API

Re: [talk-au] Mapping a blank spot

2010-07-21 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:42 PM, John Smith wrote: > I just want more people to contribute maxspeed information to make > routing more useful, and if people see maxspeed tags everywhere I was > hoping they'd either fix them if wrong, or add them to non-residential > streets... Fwiw, I think it w

Re: [talk-au] Mapping a blank spot

2010-07-21 Thread John Smith
On 22 July 2010 12:58, {Tim} wrote: > In truth, seeing your update did prompt me to take a little more care in > recording speed limits. Would you believe I set off a speed camera's > flash whilst provably going 5km/h *under* the listed speed limit. Looks In the UK there is a lot of claims of ina

Re: [talk-au] Mapping a blank spot

2010-07-21 Thread John Smith
On 22 July 2010 12:26, {Tim} wrote: > Do I smell a plot whereby somebody who is a non-ODbL true believer has > taken the opportunity to "taint" everything in Australia? I just want more people to contribute maxspeed information to make routing more useful, and if people see maxspeed tags everywhe

Re: [talk-au] Mapping a blank spot

2010-07-21 Thread John Smith
On 21 July 2010 19:36, Liz wrote: > It would be a half truth because some person well known to list readers > changed highway=residential to > highway=residential maxspeed=50 source=default (or similar) > which has altered a lot of "last editors" maxspeed:source=default Residential speedlimit in

Re: [talk-au] Mapping a blank spot

2010-07-21 Thread Liz
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, cam_...@fastmail.fm wrote: > And it'll show all the ways that were last edited by that user (yourself > in this case). > Note that this is a half truth, it doesn't show all the work that's been > done. It would be a half truth because some person well known to list readers cha

Re: [talk-au] Mapping a blank spot

2010-07-21 Thread cam_daw
On 21 July 2010 07:08, Liz wrote: > I made an animation a couple of years ago, and probably still have a copy. > What is now needed pictorially is the difference with and without my edits. To do this properly, you need a complete copy of the DB dump

Re: [talk-au] Mapping a blank spot

2010-07-20 Thread John Smith
On 21 July 2010 07:08, Liz wrote: > I made an animation a couple of years ago, and probably still have a copy. > What is now needed pictorially is the difference with and without my edits. To do this properly, you need a complete copy of the DB dump which included all history made last year, and

Re: [talk-au] Mapping a blank spot

2010-07-20 Thread Liz
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010, Richard Weait wrote: > Dear Liz, > > You said in a recent post to a list that you had mapped what was once > a blank spot on the map. > > Have you seen the OSM History animations from GeoFabrik? > http://www.geofabrik.de/gallery/history/index.html > > If the area that you ma

[talk-au] Mapping a blank spot

2010-07-20 Thread Richard Weait
Dear Liz, You said in a recent post to a list that you had mapped what was once a blank spot on the map. Have you seen the OSM History animations from GeoFabrik? http://www.geofabrik.de/gallery/history/index.html If the area that you mapped is not in a current animation, you might ask them to ad