Re: [talk-au] Mapbox mapping activity

2022-04-22 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
It's not just us Aussies left scratching our heads, several country mailing lists got this message. DWG is aware https://github.com/mapbox/mapping/issues/409 > Please answer (on this issue and every other country issue) the same > questions that were asked at #387 , and make sure that a local

Re: [talk-au] Mapping emergency beach access numbers

2020-10-01 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Demergency_access_point sounds good. There's a whole bunch of these along highways and beaches in Victoria https://www.esta.vic.gov.au/emergency-markers On Thu, Oct 1, 2020 at 8:39 PM Phil Wyatt wrote: > ..or maybe

Re: [talk-au] DEA Hotspots map - no attribution?

2019-12-29 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
Hi Graeme, There is a little (i) information icon next to the scale in the bottom left corner that can be clicked for Attributions but it's hard to see because of the color scheme when you switch the base map to OSM. On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 4:36 PM Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > Hi > > Just saw

Re: [talk-au] Caltex on name-suggestion-index

2019-05-27 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 1:55 PM Charles Gregory wrote: > Are "Caltex" and "Caltex Woolworths" identical in some parts of Australia? > > "What is the difference between [the 535] Woolworths Caltex and [the 680] Caltex locations? Woolworths Caltex is a Woolworths owned fuel location, that sells

[talk-au] Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database (CAPAD) User Survey

2019-05-21 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
"The Department of the Environment and Energy is undertaking a research project on the Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database (CAPAD) to better understand how it is used and to shape its future production. The short online survey will help us understand how many people use CAPAD, which

Re: [talk-au] Very cool NSW transport real time map

2019-03-18 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
Source: https://twitter.com/SimonGIS/status/1060789315653922816 Also some code on Github: https://github.com/bgtdevhub/tfnsw-wab-widget On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 12:07 PM Dion Moult wrote: > Just thought I'd share this very cool real time map of transport in NSW > that I found online - don't know

Re: [talk-au] Use of AIS message as input to OSM

2019-01-02 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
Having a look at the mapping guidelines I did find Beacons https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Seamarks/Beacons can have Radio Stations https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Seamarks/Radio_Stations including seamark:radio_station:category=ais "An AIS radiobeacon on a seamark that reports its own

Re: [talk-au] National Park unclosed poly, want advice

2015-04-19 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
It does seem to be in a relation that is eventually closed http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1388357 You can download all the nodes/ways in the relation for use in JOSM using the Overpass API: http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/8RS

Re: [talk-au] Bicentennial National Trail

2013-04-30 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 2:29 PM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: They also need to have topographical maps for their trail guides but I'm not sure whether OSM has that yet for Australia. It turns out that the trail I was riding on is part of the BNT but is not yet mapped as such in

Re: [talk-au] Thoughts on co-ordinating re-mapping

2011-12-01 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
There are already systems written specifically for OSM to do this http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Tasking_Manager https://github.com/tlpinney/osmtask/ ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-09-24 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
Okay seriously guys, no matter how much you hate LWG/OSMF, don't take this out on AGIMO or the state governments. Grant's opening post to this thread has been circulated widely by AGIMO staff today, it's not a hoax and obviously by announcing it publicly, not behind closed doors! Under the new IP

Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

2011-09-23 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 12:10 AM, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: The Licensing Working Group has obtained explicit special permission to incorporate geographic datasets from data.gov.au in the OpenStreetMap project database published under any free and open license, including

[talk-au] Melbourne smart city comprehensive geodata coming soon

2011-09-06 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
There have been some interesting tweets today: Now on at #smartgov Colin Fairweather on how Melbourne became a smart city Colin says the City of Melbourne will be making public a large amount of maps data this month - google on steroids #smartgov Data will include property business census,

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-11 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 7:52 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 July 2011 19:29, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: It's not using it under a licence other than CC-BY-SA. A Collective Database or Collective Work means that the ODbL part of it is under ODbL and the

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-16 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:42 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 11:14 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:15 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: The current boundaries will be removed in the near future, so if I were you I

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [Aust-NZ] Open public sector information principles launched [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2011-05-26 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
http://www.oaic.gov.au/publications/agency_resources/principles_on_psi_short.html Principle 1: Open access to information - a default position Information held by Australian Government agencies is a valuable national resource. If there is no legal need to protect the information it should be

[talk-au] A modest proposal for OSM mailing list reform

2011-05-20 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
http://opengeodata.org/osm-mailing-lists-time-for-a-change ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

[talk-au] whereNSW forum on spatial data policy 4th June

2011-05-20 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
http://wherensw.net.au/ Will also be streamed online. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-12 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:48 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 May 2011 15:38, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 1:24 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: That's before you consider the resolution, it's so high that railway lines

Re: [talk-au] Tragedy of the commons...

2011-04-24 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 9:54 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Once upon a time it used to be almost a race to map out new areas from Nearmap coverage, now whole areas of coverage go untouched for months or longer... What was once a source of pride in the community can now only

Re: [talk-au] Tragedy of the commons...

2011-04-24 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 11:06 AM, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sun, 24 Apr 2011 22:18:41 +1000 Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxi...@gmail.com wrote: Also, I hear that Kiwi OSM surveyors are having just as much trouble convincing OSM-F that their government too has done the due

Re: [talk-au] Wiki + Data Sources + Licensing Categories

2011-04-07 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:12 PM, Ashley Kyd a...@kyd.com.au wrote: Hi all, Just trying to do a bit of research to catch up on the issues but found the wiki a bit unhelpful. I've started categorising data sources by license. If you have a spare moment or two and know of any I've missed, please

Re: [talk-au] Wiki + Data Sources + Licensing Categories

2011-04-07 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:51 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 22:12 +1000, Ashley Kyd wrote: Hi all, Just trying to do a bit of research to catch up on the issues but found the wiki a bit unhelpful. I've started categorising data sources by license. If you

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-dev] To OSM editor authors ...

2011-04-06 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:37 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 22:09 +1000, Michael Hampson wrote: So is Phase 4 the end for those that don't agree? What happens to the data if we don't agree? and the data built on top of that data? Well, it depends what you

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-dev] To OSM editor authors ...

2011-04-06 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:14 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 April 2011 10:06, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxi...@gmail.com wrote: What happened to NearMap? Nearmap have refused to allow data derived from their imagery to be used without guarantee of attribution and share

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-11 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:44 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au 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

Re: [talk-au] license change map

2010-11-21 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 3:18 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Sun, 2010-11-21 at 15:13 +1100, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: I would think the better solution is to have the attribution simplified like Google Maps does. eg. Google Maps for canberra says Copyright PSMA, MapQuest

Re: [talk-au] license change map

2010-11-20 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Brendan Morley morb@beagle.com.au wrote: On 21/11/2010 12:18 PM, Andrew Laughton wrote: In my opinion OSM will never recover to the same point that it is at today if data is removed for the simple reason that most, if not all government data will need to

[talk-au] Fwd: [transit-developers] NSW Public Transport changes license terms to CC-BY-SA

2010-06-17 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
Pro: Stop/Station/Wharf locations in compatible licence Con: Licence not compatible with OSM for very much longer : -- Forwarded message -- From: Noam Ben Haim noa...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 7:09 AM Subject: [transit-developers] NSW Public Transport changes license

Re: [talk-au] Broadcast tower locations

2010-05-17 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:29 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 May 2010 08:04, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: around here every mast has heaps of transmitters tower space can be sold for good money a single transmitter on a tower is rare, unless we map these

[talk-au] CC-BY-A data released for Victoria

2010-02-27 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Friday the App My State Victoria competition for Victorian residents to build mobile and web applications that will benefit Victorians. opened ( http://www.premier.vic.gov.au/app-my-state/prizes-and-categories.html ) However this also lead to the release of many datasets for use in the

Re: [talk-au] Duplicate data in ACT

2010-02-27 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 12:00 PM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: That was me and I developed a custom system for me to manually check for duplicates before upload. Is there a particular POI that was accidently included? And another: http

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap for Canberra

2010-02-17 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On 2/18/10, Ben Kelley ben.kel...@gmail.com wrote: I see that Canberra is now online. - Ben. Awesome! I've been checking NearMap daily for this to come. It's amazing to see all my favourite locales in high-res. There's sure to be alot of corrections to my previous POI entries tonight ;)

Re: [talk-au] Servos

2010-02-08 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On 2/9/10, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Tue, 2010-02-09 at 10:48 +1000, John Smith wrote: On 9 February 2010 10:37, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: Thats probably a good thing. 'skills' also includes knowing how the OSM licence works, and clicking on the 'terms

Re: [talk-au] OSM in Haiti

2010-01-15 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 7:56 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/1/14 Jim Croft jim.cr...@gmail.com: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti#2010_Earthquake_Response http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/01/13/haiti-earthquake/ I'm not trying to detract from

Re: [talk-au] Local entity

2009-12-17 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:24 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Last week it was discussed briefly from what I understand, I was hoping to participate in the call but something came up at the last moment and I received an email a couple of days later with the following reply:

Re: [talk-au] Using Nearmap with JOSM

2009-12-14 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 1:11 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/15 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: I meant, if the error is not actually an error (ie, a false positive), can you flag it like

Re: [talk-au] Database licence

2009-12-06 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 11:43 AM, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, John Smith wrote: I'm generally not that overly concerned with the rest of the world, but will be really upset with how this will push Australia backwards, the ABS data and other datasets recently

Re: [talk-au] Database licence

2009-12-05 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: There has been a great number of mails on osmf-talk about an upcoming vote on the database licence. But no notice on the site or wiki. I suppose it isn't official discussion. Sadly, I'd like to say that I will not be supporting the

Re: [talk-au] Webapp, Meat In A Park, Helps You Find Public BBQs

2009-11-30 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: Via Lifehacker: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2009/11/meat-in-a-park-helps-you-find-public-bbqs Meat In A Park lets you find nearby public BBQ locations and promote your own BBQ plans via Facebook... ...most of the

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a non-existent road

2009-10-25 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Graeme Wilson wandere...@live.com.au wrote: [cut for brevity] When I first started on OSM, I wanted to have altitude data in with the lat lon info, and was told bluntly that OSM is a street map, not a GIS. We do have altitude now in the Shuttle Radar Topography

Re: [talk-au] New CC-BY datasets due Monday 28 September on Government 2.0 Taskforce website

2009-09-30 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:52 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know what ended up getting released yesterday, if it's available yet, or when it's likely to be? http://data.australia.gov.au/catalogue/geography CC-BY-A licenced as promised.

Re: [talk-au] New CC-BY datasets due Monday 28 September on Government 2.0 Taskforce website

2009-09-30 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 5:21 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: It looks like there is some datasets that would be useful * BBQ, public toilet and park/playground locations in the ACT These BBQ and toilet data collections have coordinates in a format/projection I'm not familar with

Re: [talk-au] New CC-BY datasets due Monday 28 September on Government 2.0 Taskforce website

2009-09-30 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 9:13 PM, terryc ter...@woa.com.au wrote: Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: For example, Telopea Park has these two that I think I can remember: Toilet Block: X=211,550,Y=600,191 (-35.31415853430738,149.13748919963837) AMG (lat/lon?) BBQ: X=211,576, Y=600,137

Re: [talk-au] New CC-BY datasets due Monday 28 September on Government 2.0 Taskforce website

2009-09-30 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Dan O#39;Hara detect...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Here is some info on the ACT grid The ACT grid is a Transverse Mercator map projection that uses the longitude of Mt Stromlo Trig Station as its central meridian.  It is based on the Australian Geodetic Datum 66

Re: [talk-au] List of potential datasources

2009-08-13 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:08 PM, James Livingston doc...@mac.com wrote: Yesterday I was thinking about somewhere we could potentially get some data from, and I thought I'd have a look around to see if anyone had contacted them before. As far as I know there doesn't seem to be a single place