Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Water depth in lake

2015-05-30 Thread John Whitmore
, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead Message: 2 Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 15:10:51 +0100 From: Daniel Cussen d...@post.com To: Discussion of OpenStreetMap in Ireland talk-ie@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Water depth in lake 3) Depth is normally displayed on maps

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Water depth in lake

2015-05-30 Thread Colm Moore
Date: Fri, 29 May 2015 15:10:51 +0100 From: Daniel Cussen d...@post.com To: Discussion of OpenStreetMap in Ireland talk-ie@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Water depth in lake 3) Depth is normally displayed on maps as mean tide level (I think), are you taking into account tide (off

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Water depth in lake

2015-05-30 Thread Daniel Cussen
Could you use height info from the GPS? Would it be good enough to calculate depth below sea level at that point? GPS height might take into account variable water height? ___ Talk-ie mailing list Talk-ie@openstreetmap.org

[OSM-talk-ie] Water depth in lake

2015-05-29 Thread John Whitmore
Hello talk-ie@openstreetmap.org I'm working on a project for work which involves faffing about on a lake here in Ireland in a boat. What I'm doing is working on pulling NMEA Data off the boat's CAN Bus into a computer. The boat has a few sesnors on it, depth, GPS and will have water Temp, if not

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Water depth in lake

2015-05-29 Thread Daniel Cussen
http://www.openseamap.org/ is a marine map, which may have depth, or could use depth data. There may be some legal ramifications in some countries where the government/department has a monopoly on producing marine charts (which are maps with depth and other data) as free/open maps may have

Re: [OSM-talk-ie] Water depth in lake

2015-05-29 Thread Rory McCann
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi John, OSM can store many things, but water depths are probably not being shown on the main OSM page, but that doesn't mean they are not being stored. Do you know about OpenSeaMap? It uses OSM but for more nautical/maritime uses. It looks like they