On Tue, 15 Sep 2009, j...@talk21.com wrote:
I've added the streets in the new development.
John
--- Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
http://osm.org/go/uNa_WFK
there are some new subdivisions - probably of the 2 hectare lot size
along this section of Yass Valley Way
I didn't do any more than
On Sun, 13 Sep 2009, John Smith wrote:
Screen shot the area, draw a big red circle round it and upload to the
wiki to make it easier for people that are looking to do something, to
find it ! :)
later.
1100km in 2 days is a lot of driving, and i am tired tonight
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On Sat, 5 Sep 2009, Ian Dees wrote:
On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 2:59 AM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
SFD is using a well known proprietary map on their web site.
Is there anything in this which OSM or one of its derivatives can't do
already?
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Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] RR8 - Possible International Vandal
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2009
From: Peter Miller peter.mil...@itoworld.com
On 4 Sep 2009, at 10:28, Liz wrote:
On Fri, 4 Sep 2009, Mike Harris wrote:
Peter
Excellent summary - very well balanced.
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, John Smith wrote:
2009/9/3 Liz ed...@billiau.net:
I'd think that when we hit by vandalism in AU we would be talking on the
local list and making a decision on reverting changes.
I would think that a higher status mapper would be actually permitted
to make the changes
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009, John Smith wrote:
I'm not disagreeing, I'm just trying to flesh out a policy on what to do :)
i reckon that the two noisiest persons on this list should give others a
chance next :-)
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On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
--- On Wed, 26/8/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
could we simply extend source=survey with a year
and source=landsat similarly?
source=survey09
source=landsat_trace09
source=yahoo_trace08
I'd seperate the information out into 2 key pairs:
On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Till Harbaum / Lists wrote:
But that all doesn't give us a reason to add artificial, misleading and
useless information to the osm maps.
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Copyright_Easter_Eggs
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On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
Which Mercator projection and why is it eurocentric?
the original.
it expands the size of europe compared t all the colonised lands
opinion of Arno Peters
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno_Peters
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On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, you wrote:
I'm looking to implant some OSM maps into Wikipedia, but I need some
examples of their wiki editing style so I don't get my edits rubbed out
by the style police.
Could people please advise me of wikipedia pages with OSM maps so I can
view the style of
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
--- On Wed, 19/8/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
anyone interested in starting putting OSM maps into
Wikipedia where we can see
that they would be of reasonable readiness?
There is an easy way to do it :)
a
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
--- On Wed, 19/8/09, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote:
i knew that you could get those refs
but i'm not sure of the editing conventions of wikipedia
Most of these batch jobs seem to be scripted.
and if someone was aware of the ins and outs
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
It seems you haven't include all parts as there is gaps between sections
when you sort the relation.
A later version of JOSM 1900ish has a much nicer relation interface.
I tried to pick up all the bridges and roundabouts
but i'll get a new JOSM
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
I've been marking all members in a relation as a role member not
forward/backward as we don't have official designations such as
east/west/north/south like they do on US interstates.
so i make them all member?
then can get altered later
I'm not
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
It might be good to put the name and the ref in different relations, for
example, A1 continues past Carins, but it changes name from the Bruce
Highway to the Captain Cook Highway.
that I did see in May
In this example there would be 3 relations, 1 for
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
would you break the relations at State borders or not?
I have been for the ref=* relation because I'm adding
addr:country=Australia, addr:state=QLD so that different state shields can
be displayed differently.
OK, a reason to split - I couldn't think of
On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
--- On Sun, 16/8/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
I'd like to draw your attention to this guys suggested
organisation of amenity
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Amenity_Reoganization
Good idea, and like others it won't get past the
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
--- On Thu, 13/8/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
there are some things that are best done by action rather
than talk
and 4wd_only os one of them.
we make a decision
we go ahead
There needs to be another 3 votes to meet the current minimum
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Vincent MEURISSE wrote:
If you really need such a tool, copy the software used by openstreetbug,
put it on your server and then you can have annotations on the map.
thanks Vincent
that could well be a workable solution
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On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Ulf Lamping wrote:
There was a discussion on this list about doctors vs. doctor and the
conclusion was to use doctors, as this was more natural for native
speakers.
I don't regard this as purely chaotic ...
Regards, ULFL
doctors is a contraction of doctor's
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, Vincent MEURISSE wrote:
If you really need such a tool, copy the software used by openstreetbug,
put it on your server and then you can have annotations on the map.
thanks Vincent
that could well be a workable solution
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On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
--- On Wed, 12/8/09, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote:
thanks Vincent
that could well be a workable solution
It might be a solution, but it's sub-optimal as you have enough to sort out
working out where to go, without looking up where not to go
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
well looking at google or whereis still isn't a crime
and marking that they are wrong is not copying their data
in any logical sense
especially if you directly made an observation that it doesn't exist, the
question is still how to represent this,
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Martin Simon wrote:
2009/8/10 Liz ed...@billiau.net:
On Mon, 10 Aug 2009, Nop wrote:
- Some mappers are applying footway and cycleway rather indiscriminately
to all sorts of ways so it basically only means not for cars in some
areas
In short: It's a mess. :-)
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009, Roy Wallace wrote:
Nice work Liz, thought I might comment on just a few things you raised.
not my work Roy!!
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On Sun, 9 Aug 2009, Nic Roets wrote:
On Sat, Aug 8, 2009 at 10:59 AM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
anyone got any ideas on tagging potential radioactive sites?
a search of the wiki produced nothing so far
*thinking*
radioactivity=yes
type=depleted_uranium
Hi Liz,
Many scientific
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2009/8/4 Liz ed...@billiau.net:
Talking with my friends in Kosovo
the laptops are underpowered and hang using JOSM
the laptops are underpowered and hang using the browser and hence
Potlatch the power supply is completely intermitttent
the
On Sat, 8 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
--- On Sat, 8/8/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
The basic layout is OK
I'm trying to make it easier for people to find Aussie specific stuff.
I'd try to stop the logo overlapping with the grey bar
All I did was replace the logo, the swiss site
On Thu, 6 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
I've got one which renders on JOSM, as a node
it's like a little car in the water
Would that mean the same thing to you if you've never used JOSM?
well it is of course wrong to assume there would be water.
I was just thinking that the graphic could be
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
--- On Wed, 5/8/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
could we make an effort to ask Graham (?) VK1RE because he
reclassifies roads
as he drives them, and certainly would have the most
experience with this
matter.
Is he on the list?
i thought so, but
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Luke Woolley wrote:
Currently, for local roads, I use residential for all local streets
which have houses along them. I use unclassified for all other local
roads, such as ones that run through industrial estates, rural areas
past paddocks, virtually everything except
On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
--- On Tue, 4/8/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
http://www.ozroads.com.au/NSW/Freeways/M5/01.jpg
404
01.JPG
just navigate to the directory
and you get a listing
i picked the first one
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On Mon, 3 Aug 2009, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
2009/8/3 Liz ed...@billiau.net:
now i get to own up to having a flickr account ;-(
these roads are all the same width legally, and the actual width depends
on the grader driver.
also none of them are dry weather only roads - so when you
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
Furthermore industrial areas are
built according to standards that allow easy use with trucks, while in
residential areas you will more often have smaller streets and
straighter curves, which will cause problems to big trucks.
That does not
On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote:
--- On Sun, 2/8/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
My local council has just published a
street directory, advertised as more
local than your GPS
I've found the first mistake already
I really wish I could come up with a suitable proposal to local
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote:
There is a lot of nodes tagged with amenity=* and place=* and some of the
place tags are empty.
http://maps.bigtincan.com/tagwatch/seek.php
The page may take 20-30s to load if the query cache has emptied due to
updates, either from people refreshing
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote:
I updated the seek code to place + sport and well yea...
Actually they all seem to be valid, named dive spots, so that example was
wrong :)
should they be name= and sport=
rather than place= and sport=
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On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote:
Well tagwatch has this:
wood=mixed(54)|coniferous(25)|deciduous(15)|Pine(1)|Eucalytus Globulos (Tas
Bluegum)(1)
is that from the Au dataset?
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On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Biogenesis_/diary/7219
did you go for road closed
road intermittent
ford
or some new tag?
looks like a
highway=construction
construction=residential
That is if they are actually planning to fix it.
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote:
landuse=quarry
only works for opencut
otherwise one uses natural=cave_entrance??
No idea, try the main talk list, I would have just marked it as
landuse=quarry, layer=-1
No sane answers there :-)
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On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote:
How big does a building have to be before it's no longer a building?
747/380 Hangers are really big but they're still buildings. shrug
buildings that are big enough to mess up the contour data ??
i can identify some sheds here of that size
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On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, André Riedel wrote:
2008/11/11 André Riedel riedel.an...@gmail.com:
The tourism=information describes an information source for tourists,
travellers and visitors. But it does not differ between diverse types
of an information point. The goal of this proposal is to
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote:
Those Eurocentric guys remind me of the tales of the 18th
Century scientists
learning about the playtpus - didn't fit anything they
knew, so had to be a
fake.
I'm pretty sure the idea of a town common comes from the brits, but I
have no idea if
On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote:
H, gpsdrive isn't very friendly for small systems...
0 upgraded, 89 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 99.4MB of archives.
After this operation, 269MB of additional disk space will be used.
Not really wanting to dig into
On Sat, 18 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote:
and lastly
presets do not contain property key
3 Key 'charge' not in presets - that was some toilets
(i know about dry_weather_road and old_ref)
This is what I was asking for in previous emails so I could submit patches
for it.
but i hadn't done
On Sun, 19 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote:
--- On Sat, 18/7/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
on the neo I've used navit but its just too small for
ageing eyes on that
screen
so now i use tangogps on the eeepc
tangogps was the easiest to get up and running, but no routing which is a
shame
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote:
They were after Circular Quay in Sydney, they just pronounced it how it's
spelt, not how it's written thanks to French influences on the English
language.
yes, but for an american tour guide i could have sent them off to oxford
street darlinghurst for an
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, Rick Peterson wrote:
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That got quite a chuckle going here love it !! :D
The program is called 'fortune'. It is a BSD program, and it does not work on
Windows (I see Rick is using Thunderbird on Windows).
Now if I was using
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009, John Smith wrote:
Oh c'mon you can't leave us hanging like that, do tell us what it was :)
It was something about Marines in which the war cry or similar had an addendum
which noted that most were going to the cemetery
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On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Ulf Möller wrote:
It doesn't. It's just that during a review of the proposed license, a
lawyer pointed out that it is good practice to have terms of use for the
website. That recommendation would still stand if we chose not to change
the license.
I can't really comprehend
On Fri, 3 Jul 2009, Francis Davey wrote:
Put the lawyer back in the cage.
Be nice 8-). This isn't (as far as I can see) about lawyers being
unreasonable.
I just get the impression that some people have had so much to do with lawyers
while trying to get the database licence organised that
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Do you wear a helmet when you ride a bicycle? Accidents resulting
in TBI are very uncommon, but their consequences are very high
and a helmet will protect you from many of those consequences.
Fantastic. We have now found the one OSM-related
On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, John Smith wrote:
You only care about what town or suburb some is in, the discussion was on a
little more accurate, down to the street or even the house they live or
place of work.
There can be all sort of reasons people don't care if you know the
town/suburb, but on the
On Thu, 18 Jun 2009, John Smith wrote:
Merkaator is the program the writer was trying to recall.
And I thought re-using acronyms were bad.
No proof for this...
Mercator is the Latin version of the bloke's name. Common for academics then
to Latinise their names.
He was Flemish.
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote:
what did you say about geocachers??
Been some accidents while people were concentrating more on their GPS than
on the road, trying to find the link with photos but nothing is coming up
in google.
I knew what you meant
even osm wiki has examples of
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Jochen Topf wrote:
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 08:13:41PM +1200, Andrew Simpson wrote:
The licence is Creative Commons 3.0 and is clearly shown on the web
page. There is no mention of 'what' and 'how' the required credit
should be attributed.
And on the same web page it
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote:
Yep, read up on all that, but I'm trying to figure out the exact longitude
it was set at by the privy council ruling.
All the state borders that are set to exact lat/longs are all screwy and
I'm trying to fix it to be as accuracte as humanly possible.
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote:
--- On Sun, 14/6/09, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote:
photo from Mullinger swamp near naracorte
Can you tell me where the swamp is on the map? It doesn't look like anyone
has plotted it yet.
but i didn't own a GPS then
Pity it would have
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote:
Anyone up for a road trip to the middle of no where Vic/SA to get some GPS
data on the survey line? :)
Nick and I both cross this line a few times a year
the OSM boundary is not correctly aligned with the signs on the Mallee Highway
either
needs some
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote:
I've merged the 2 administrative boundaries into 1 and aligned them both to
be 140.9640 degrees east, which is the best I can do based on the
information you provided and I found on the net.
I assume the border is supposed to be a straight line, but
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote:
--- On Fri, 12/6/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
I'll ask the offspring. He is 7/8 of a surveyor
with one semester to go!
Can you also ask the bearing the drift is going, all I've been able to find
out is approx north or north north east, but
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote:
Big API change?
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Changes_V0.5_to_V0.6
because at this point we can't upload stuff with too many relations and too
many points, and the Lachlan changes won't upload, so I have to draw it all
out again.
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009, Franc Carter wrote:
Yes, back in my early osm days I yahoo'd Saint Clair in Western Sydney,
only to fin much
later when I went out with a gps that the alignment was really bad ;-(
Can't locate the place right now - it was somewhere between Penrith and
Campbelltown.
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On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Hi,
Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
Facts are Facts and can't be Copyrighted
... which ist not exactly the position that OSM is taking on this
matter; in fact, with ODBL we go to great lengths to ensure that even if
our facts should not be copyrightable we
On Tue, 9 Jun 2009, SteveC wrote:
I could in theory make it, and I even considered it for about 10
seconds... but I couldn't think what I'd get out of it other than
frustration.
DRM for maps, sorry GeoDRM... what can you say but FAIL ?
Best
Steve
Trouble is, these people continue
On Mon, 25 May 2009, Stephen Hope wrote:
Just be grateful you're not trying to teach English to some-one who
speaks Melanesian pidgin. There's no distinction there between a
bridge, a pier, a jetty, etc. If it's man-made and it's elevated,
it's a bris. Trying to explain why English uses
On Sun, 24 May 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote:
Have a read of this:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Roundabouts
there are separate tags for traffic calming devices
and no, we don't have mini-roundabouts in australia, they
are all roundabouts.
Well according to the link you
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Franc Carter wrote:
Hmm, one thing that I forgot to check is the number of nodes in the ways -
I seem to remember that 0.6 was going to introduce a limit on this . . . .
cheers
The limit is 2000, and the involved way 1,400 or so, but it might be a clue;
if i break the
On Tue, 3 Mar 2009, Cameron wrote:
Can someone scan it, or is it available online?
~Cameron
I didn't bring the magazine off with me, and its not available online that I
have found.
If no one else has seen it, I'll pester Rex for a copy (it's last month's
now).
Liz
On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Darryl Ross wrote:
Liz wrote:
Putting in a few POIs and not sure about one - I can't be sure which side
of the road (Old Kapunda road) the TAFE is on from my photo.
Someone who knows - could you check whether it is south of north of the
road? (Perhaps its really big
On Sun, 7 Dec 2008, Matt White wrote:
Sadly no - none in Western NSW. Had a client in Bowral, got a couple in
Canberra, but after that it the Murray river, or SE Qld.
Matt
Where on the Murray?
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On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Kim Hawtin wrote:
Liz wrote:
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008, Stephen Hope wrote:
I can't make it, unfortunately. I have a previous engagement.
Ditto
Well actually, Kangaroo Island won, and that's where I'll be
I'd be pleased to meet some osm'ers one day
Praps there
On Thu, 11 Sep 2008, Nick Hocking wrote:
Thanks Liz,
I bet you guessed that I zoomed in to make sure the I wasn't in fact an !
:-)
A while back I thought about going around Canberra photographing close ups
of all the plaques that I could find. My Mio will geotag photos, so even
though the
On Tue, 12 Aug 2008, Franc Carter wrote:
Is there a program to modify or record updates for the map ?
I'm looking for a good 'mobile josm' approach
cheers
you can collect a track
and it seems even run josm on the thing, but i certainly cannot vouch for
usability - its not a big screen, and I
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Ian Sergeant wrote:
Java problems.
java -Xms512m -Xmx512m josm.jar will set the java heap size to 512MB.
Ian.
Liz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 19/02/2008 11:00:27 AM:
I just put in another 1G of RAM. JOSM is using up to 1G and not touching
the
second 1G at all,
On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Franc Carter wrote:
You can adjust the overlay using the green square with four arrows that is
in the
left hand side set of buttons
cheers
On Feb 16, 2008 6:24 PM, Liz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just thought I'd like to try this.
Near me it is close to 8km out and
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