Re: [talk-au] cities changed to towns

Hi I disagree, I believe the greater than 100,000 test is not applicable within Australia. OSM Wiki says a city is: The largest urban settlements in the territory, normally including the national, state and provincial capitals. These are defined by charter or other governmental designation in

[talk-au] cities changed to towns

Hi, some Australian places have changed from cities to towns on; changeset was: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/14217241 I've emailed to the editor to ask the source for the change as I believe some are now incorrect. I really do think Gympie, Maryborough, Warwick and Charters

Re: [talk-au] [Imports] Importing locality names from GeoScience Australia dataset.

Hi, On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Li Xia lisxia1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP 1. Can anyone suggest tags other than the following? name:different place:locality source: © Commonwealth of Australia (GeoScience Australia) 2006. 2. Using JOSM at the moment and uploads take a while, is there a

[talk-au] Aus remapping task server

Hi, Has anyone got the tech smarts/resources to stand up a remap-a-tron for Australia? It seems to have been rather a success in the USA, and could help us direct our remapping efforts: demo: http://lima.schaaltreinen.nl/remap/ Source: https://github.com/mvexel/remapatron Might be a good time to

[talk-au] ACT spatial data site

Hi, I saw this and thought I'd mention it here - ACT has launched an open data initiative/site that may be worth monitoring: http://all-things-spatial.blogspot.de/2012/09/act-implements-free-data-initiative.html Cheers, Chris ___ Talk-au mailing list

[talk-au] redaction cleanup - unusual water feature

Hi, I'm working on the post redaction checks from the rebuild server at http://rebuild.poole.ch/job/29 And I'm a bit confused by this: http://osm.org/go/ueHoaPP9-- If you look at Bing imagery for this location it is composed of some sort of inland harbour/marina/coastline/water feature which had

[talk-au] Charleville gone

My pet project city is gone... So sad :-( weeks of my OpenStreetMap edits - from this: http://mapq.st/Mu0w1S to this: http://osm.org/go/uW6~q6RW-- I surveyed Charleville and had a blast doing it, but I added to imported road reservation data instead of deleted and re-entered. To think that if the

[talk-au] lake baroon missing

Hi, I'm away for a few months, but a friend just pointed out that Lake Baroon has gone missing: http://osm.org/go/ueSKIP02- If anyone is inclined to fix please do Chas -- cbar...@pobox.com ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

[talk-au] remove nearmap and yahoo coverage polygons

Hi, Is anyone able to retrieve and delete the polygons defining the extent of coverage of Nearmap and Yahoo imagery over Aus? These polygons are irrelevant now. I tried to come up with a way... but failed :-( Cheers, Chas -- cbar...@pobox.com

[talk-au] Brisbane street names

Hi, Just spotted a CC-by dataset of Brisbane, Qld, Aus streetnames... Perhaps possible/useful for checking of spelling of existing street names? (I'm *guessing* that wouldn't violate the licence) http://data.brisbane.qld.gov.au/index.php/dataset/street-names/ Chris

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

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 19:51, waldo000...@gmail.com waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: +1. Surely forwarding the emails is less work for you anyway than transcribing parts of the emails (?!). Did you consider why forwarding the full emails might be less than wise? - I have, and will share my

[talk-au] Bicentennial National Trail

The 5,330 km National Trail known as the Australian Bicentennial National Trail (BNT), is only partially mapped in OSM. Refs: OSM existing Route Relation: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/176684 There is a website regarding the trail here http://www.nationaltrail.com.au/ I suppose

[talk-au] Outback Survey Charleville Qld

Hi, Just had an impromptu couple of days in Charleville, Qld and got some surveying done. It became clear early on that I needed a vehicle to get anything meaningful done, and was lucky in that I managed to get a 4WD from Avis. This also meant I managed to get a couple of trips in to Augenthella

[talk-au] label rendering errors at Fernvale Qld

Hi, at this link http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-27.4395lon=152.726zoom=14layers=M in Fernvale, there are two label oddities: 1) Bottom left - town label Fernvale appears, but the town is also labelled correctly up to the North East already (where the town is) 3) Top Right - Lake Manchester

Re: [talk-au] Active Australian OSM contributors in light of CT/license changes

Hi Andrew, On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 21:29, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote: snip Are you moving to the fosm db? If so, great! Less problems with trying to merge your data into fosm, and we can all get back to mapping. Do you have any concerns over the switch? I have concerns. The

Re: [talk-au] A modest proposal fo OSM mailing list reform

On 21 May 2011 16:11, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: If people want to use a forum like interface, gmane.org does that I believe. I've used MarkMail for lists, and like it: http://goo.gl/Sv27p which is this less friendly/longer URL:

Re: [talk-au] Barrier Reef Island Geographic Offset

Hi, On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 20:16, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: Brampton Island http://osm.org/go/vIwcP8wt- I saw these several hundred metre offsets on some Qld islands, when adding the National Parks, they gave me pause because I thought I may have made an error in projection or

[talk-au] Queensland, Australia: Protected areas (National Parks) - potential import dataset

Hi, I couldn't find any discussion of this dataset and it's suitability for import - it's the protected areas of Qld (National Parks, State Forests etc). I've had a look and wondered what people thought about moving it forward somehow?. I put this page together on the wiki with the info found so

[talk-au] Nominatim - Qld Admin area - 'Cape Moreton'

Hi, I've found something odd with Nominatim search in Qld. If you search for Brighton, Queensland on osm.org , open.mapquest.com.au or by using this link: http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=brighton+queenslandformat=xml the display result is: Brighton, 4017, Cape Moreton, Queensland,

[talk-au] ESRI online tool has OSM basemap

This seems interesting, ESRI have launched ArcGIS.com http://www.arcgis.com/home/ which has an online mapping toolset (Microsoft Silverlight plugin required) that allows you to use OpenStreetMap basemaps - I thought this was interesting as it is from a company that until the OSM Haiti remote

[talk-au] Wivenhoe Dam missing - edit/render problem

Hi, Wivenhoe Dam in Queensland is not rendering at the moment; and I fear it might be my fault (the edit history is me anyway - hangs head in shame). I looked at the outline and noticed it wasn't a contiguous area, so fixed that, but it's still not rendering on the map. Can anyone fix it and also

Re: [talk-au] Wivenhoe Dam missing - edit/render problem

Thanks, I have separated the ways and it's fine now. Didn't spot that when I was trying to work out the problem. On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 11:25, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: The area as it stands is comprised of two separate ways: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/23132054 and

[talk-au] White Cross painted on road - signifies what?

Hi, Whilst out getting GPS traces north of Brisbane I've noticed quite a few roads, usually at the end of a rural road, there will be a cross in white paint on the centre of road, sometimes with a bolt in the centre of the cross. Each arm of the cross is about a metre long. Anyone know what

Re: [talk-au] White Cross painted on road - signifies what?

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:58, Chris Barham cbar...@pobox.com wrote: Hi, Whilst out getting GPS traces north of Brisbane I've noticed quite a few roads, usually at the end of a rural road, there will be a cross in white paint on the centre of road, sometimes with a bolt in the centre

[talk-au] State forest areas - possible from DCDB-lite?

Hi, I've heard that the Qld DCDB-lite dataset has some cadastral information that can be used to populate OSM. Does this contain State Forests boundaries? If so, I'd like to understand the process to improve the OSM map around Benarkin by getting the forest tagged; so the question is how would

Re: [talk-au] Intro video to OSM in Australia

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 12:00 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Has anyone on this list had any success approaching groups to encourage them to join? Can I make a suggestion that somebody approach Audax Australia as part of any outreach programme?. They do long cycle road rides in

Re: [talk-au] Intro video to OSM in Australia

On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:57 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: there should be examples of these types of map data already in OSM's DB so we should be able to not only write on the topic but illistrate it as well. I can think of a potential 4wd example, LandCruiserPark. I

Re: [talk-au] Australia BP service station dataset - suitable for bulk import?

On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:39 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: The 2 BP's along the Bruce Highway north of Brisbane aren't located properly either, it looks like they've simply used address to geo lookups and when the addresses are specific they co-ords go wonky, wonder if they

[talk-au] Qld police stations - potential OSM bulk import

Hi, I think I have found a good datasource for OSM, but I've run out of steam trying to manipulate it. If there is agreement the data is useful and legitimate; similar to the BP import, I wondered if I could ask for help, perhaps reapplying Johns' BP import code/procedure to this dataset?

[talk-au] Australia BP service station dataset - suitable for bulk import?

ref: Australia BP service station dataset - suitable for bulk import? BP allows free download of GPS data for their Australian service stations. They also offer another CSV dataset download with servo phone numbers, names and address. Could these two be useful to OpenStreetMap as a datasource?