[talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-11 Thread John Smith
Not sure how useful it'd be in Australia, but the massive floods all over Australia, except for the bush fires near Perth of course, might do well to map a lot of effected areas from Bing where coverage exists. It might be worth while trying to get additional coverage for areas effected for humani

[talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-14 Thread Nick Hocking
JohnSmith wrote "I originally cc'd my original email to the HOT list as well, however it would see they doesn't bother trying to help unless you are a 3rd world country with a high chance of PR..." Given the incessant trolling and cyber-stalking of OSM by some vocal Australians, I'd be suprised i

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-11 Thread David Murn
On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 19:02 +1000, John Smith wrote: > It might be worth while trying to get additional coverage for areas > effected for humanitarian reasons, after all they're searching for > bodies in Toowoomba not just people. Anyone have any ideas who could > be approached for such imagery?

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-11 Thread Stephen Hope
I heard that they were planning to do flights up north a few days ago, but couldn't get flight permissions, what with the state of emergency. And in the southeast (actually, pretty much everywhere, today), you'd get lovely grey clouds right now. In fact, if you look at Brisbane, it hasn't been up

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-11 Thread John Smith
On 11 January 2011 20:44, David Murn wrote: > On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 19:02 +1000, John Smith wrote: > >> It might be worth while trying to get additional coverage for areas >> effected for humanitarian reasons, after all they're searching for >> bodies in Toowoomba not just people. Anyone have any

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-11 Thread John Smith
Main water supply dam for Brisbane (Wivenhoe) was under 40% a few years ago, it hit 170% today because of all the flash flooding in and around Toowoomba. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-11 Thread John Smith
On 12 January 2011 03:51, John Smith wrote: > Main water supply dam for Brisbane (Wivenhoe) was under 40% a few > years ago, it hit 170% today because of all the flash flooding in and > around Toowoomba. > For those in Brisbane, power is being cut to some suburbs at 7 am today (12/1/11) and may n

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-11 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:44 PM, David Murn wrote: > On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 19:02 +1000, John Smith wrote: > >> It might be worth while trying to get additional coverage for areas >> effected for humanitarian reasons, after all they're searching for >> bodies in Toowoomba not just people. Anyone ha

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-11 Thread Ben Last
Cloudbase was at 1600' last time James looked at it, which is a bit too low; I just spoke to him and whilst we can fly at 1000' if we want (for a 1cm survey), the buildings in Brisbane are a bit higher than in Perth :) Last time (Wagga) we managed to go from takeoff to images online in 8 days. Not

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-12 Thread John Smith
On 12 January 2011 16:18, Ben Last wrote: > Cloudbase was at 1600' last time James looked at it, which is a bit too low; > I just spoke to him and whilst we can fly at 1000' if we want (for a 1cm > survey), the buildings in Brisbane are a bit higher than in Perth :) Only in the city itself, then

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-14 Thread John Smith
I originally cc'd my original email to the HOT list as well, however it would see they doesn't bother trying to help unless you are a 3rd world country with a high chance of PR... ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreet

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-14 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 4:02 AM, John Smith wrote: > Not sure how useful it'd be in Australia, but the massive floods all > over Australia, except for the bush fires near Perth of course, might > do well to map a lot of effected areas from Bing where coverage > exists. and then ... On Fri, Jan 1

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-14 Thread John Smith
On 15 January 2011 10:45, Richard Weait wrote: > Perhaps somebody familiar with the affected areas could create a list > of specific ways that remote mappers can help? Tasks that include > specific geographic starting points and limited scope are easier to > act on. Almost all eastern states of

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-14 Thread Ben Last
Just FYI, the nearmap.com images of the Brisbane CBD are now up - 2cm resolution and taken on the 13th (from plane to web in 36 hours). Next up will be Ipswich at some point this weekend. http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-27.470182,153.027835&z=16&t=k b On 12 January 2011 18:39, John Smith wrote: > O

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-14 Thread John Smith
On 15 January 2011 11:03, Ben Last wrote: > Just FYI, the nearmap.com images of the Brisbane CBD are now up - 2cm > resolution and taken on the 13th (from plane to web in 36 hours). Next up > will be Ipswich at some point this weekend. > http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-27.470182,153.027835&z=16&t=k

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-14 Thread John Smith
On 15 January 2011 11:29, John Smith wrote: > Here's a couple of interesting things I found: > > http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=NaN,NaN&z=20&t=k&nmd=20110113 Hmmm looks like I hit a bug :D http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-27.541924,152.944222&z=19&t=k&nmd=20110113 ___

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-14 Thread Stephen Hope
Ben, some interesting shots there. I take it the MultiView part won't be up until later? It seems to be showing older imagery at the moment. A little bit of unfortunate image slicing here in just the wrong place. :) http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-27.475182,153.020904&z=20&t=k&nmd=20110113 And I

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-14 Thread Ben Last
Hi - yes, in the interests of time we skipped Multiview for these surveys so as to get the PhotoMaps up faster. cheers b On 15 January 2011 11:54, Stephen Hope wrote: > Ben, > > some interesting shots there. I take it the MultiView part won't be > up until later? It seems to be showing older i

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-14 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Ben Last wrote: > Hi - yes, in the interests of time we skipped Multiview for these surveys so > as to get the PhotoMaps up faster. > cheers > b So you guys didn't collect the multiview imagery, or is it processing and will be up at a later date? The terrain look

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-14 Thread Ben Last
It's all collected at the same time, but to speed up processing we left the multiview out of this pass (it'll get done later) so that the Ipswitch and river mouth surveys get online faster cheers b On 15 January 2011 13:28, Andrew Harvey wrote: > On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Ben Last wrote:

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-14 Thread John Smith
On 15 January 2011 11:02, John Smith wrote: > Last I heard the death toll was at 16 for Qld, I'm not aware if there > has been any deaths in other states. I just heard that one person from Grantham, their body was found 86 km away. ___ Talk-au mailing

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-14 Thread John Smith
On 15 January 2011 17:35, Nick Hocking wrote: > JohnSmith wrote > > "I originally cc'd my original email to the HOT list as well, however > it would see they doesn't bother trying to help unless you are a 3rd > world country with a high chance of PR..." > > Given the incessant trolling and cyber-s

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-14 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:35:58 +1100 Nick Hocking wrote: > JohnSmith wrote > > "I originally cc'd my original email to the HOT list as well, however > it would see they doesn't bother trying to help unless you are a 3rd > world country with a high chance of PR..." > > Given the incessant trolling

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-15 Thread John Smith
On 15 January 2011 11:03, Ben Last wrote: > Just FYI, the nearmap.com images of the Brisbane CBD are now up - 2cm > resolution and taken on the 13th (from plane to web in 36 hours). Next up > will be Ipswich at some point this weekend. > http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-27.470182,153.027835&z=16&t=k

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-16 Thread Andrew
Nick Hocking writes: > > > JohnSmith wrote >   > "I originally cc'd my original email to the HOT list as well, howeverit would see they doesn't bother trying to help unless you are a 3rdworld country with a high chance of PR..." >   > Given the incessant trolling and cyber-stalking of OSM by

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-16 Thread John Smith
On 17 January 2011 00:17, Andrew wrote: > Furthermore, using a non-ODbL source such as NearMap is unfriendly and doing I think you mean CTs, Ben has stated (unofficially) that ODBL may well be acceptable. In any case please point out where I mentioned Nearmap, you seem to be confusing me with oth