Re: [OSM-talk] Build your own GPS receiver

2013-03-18 Thread Andrew Gregory
of the Vespucci team), which only allows fine (GPS) positioning. Regards, Andrew On 18 March 2013 14:00, Jeffrey Ollie j...@ocjtech.us wrote: On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:09 PM, Andrew Gregory andrew.greg...@gmail.com wrote: It's all down to your application. What do you want to do that you

Re: [OSM-talk] Build your own GPS receiver

2013-03-17 Thread Andrew Gregory
The GPS module they're using is based on the MK3339, which I'm currently using in a commercial project. Very low power consumption and amazing performance. However, in terms of making your own receiver, I don't see the point unless it is for an extremely specialized task. The reason is cost. The

Re: [talk-au] transperth GTFS

2013-02-06 Thread Andrew Gregory
I've mapped a lot of bus stops in the northern suburbs. I've found that sometimes the Transperth data (as evidenced on Googlemaps) can sometimes be out quite a bit. In any case I decided that mapping them 'in person' was better as I could collect other info such as bench= and shelter=. On 6

Re: [talk-au] Queensland street names

2012-10-08 Thread Andrew Gregory
The link on that page took me to: http://qspatial.information.qld.gov.au/IQAtlas/ At the bottom right of that page is a link to: http://www.nowwhere.com.au/lic/NowWhereLic.htm Which quite clearly says that it can't be reused without permission. I suspect that the link has been given on the OSM

[OSM-talk] Vespucci 0.8.0 Beta - Call for Testers and Translators

2012-09-12 Thread Andrew Gregory
Authors and licenses at the bottom of the application Preferences. Or not, if you prefer. Andrew Gregory, Vespucci developer ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] OSM Inspector Potlatch Tiles?

2012-09-01 Thread Andrew Gregory
I've just tried to use the OSM Inspector Potlatch background as given at: http://blog.geofabrik.de/?p=96 But they didn't work. Have they moved? Was it just a temporary thing? My real reason for asking is that I'd like to integrate them into Vespucci (Android OSM editor). -- Andrew

Re: [OSM-talk] Blocked applications at tile server

2011-11-21 Thread Andrew Gregory
Andrew On Nov 21, 2011 9:17 PM, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Václav Řehák wrote: Any tile server provided by the app author will be way behind in the updates. I expect the Locus tile server to be updated once in a week or so making it unusable for my weekend mapping trips.

Re: [OSM-talk] Blocked applications at tile server

2011-11-21 Thread Andrew Gregory
(Sorry, slip of the finger sent a blank email...) Regarding mobile mapping apps for Android, I'm a part-time developer of Vespucci. A few months back I did a lot of stability work and it now hardly ever crashes for me. I also improved the map tiles by adding support for many different layers (esp

Re: [OSM-talk] New Logo in the Wiki

2011-05-01 Thread Andrew Gregory
On 2 May 2011 09:03, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: On 01/05/2011 20:50, Nic Roets wrote: Note that open IRC is the Internet equivalent to the town hall meetings. No, it's not. Those occur in the time zone of the those involved. IRC meetings, on the other hand, occur outside of

Re: [talk-au] How many NearMap users do you think have accepted the new CTs and ODbL?

2011-05-01 Thread Andrew Gregory
On 26 April 2011 21:24, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: How many OSM users have accepted the new terms, without fully understanding that sources they have used in the past prohibit them from doing so. Using my australian test extract from 21/03/2011, I found that 3390 users have

Re: [talk-au] How many NearMap users do you think have accepted the new CTs and ODbL?

2011-05-01 Thread Andrew Gregory
On 2 May 2011 08:17, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 23:18 +0800, Andrew Gregory wrote: Thankfully, I've been careful to use source=nearmap. I've also been making a point to go around and survey streets I've traced, check their alignment, name them and set

Re: [OSM-talk] Android app that has OS 1:25000?

2011-04-14 Thread Andrew Gregory
On 12 April 2011 21:08, Dave F. dave...@madasafish.com wrote: On 12/04/2011 01:54, Andrew Gregory wrote: Vespucci 0.7.0 (released a few days ago) has added OS Historic 1:25K. Is that what you're after? Thanks for the reply but It's the current 1:25k that I'm after. Although I use OSM

Re: [OSM-talk] Power-user GPS app for Android?

2011-02-15 Thread Andrew Gregory
Only speaking on my own behalf (and not for anyone else involved with Vespucci), I've recently been doing some work on Vespucci. Vespucci is an Android OSM editor, primarily online, although you can download a chunk of data and then work on it without an internet connection. Its GPS logging

Re: [talk-au] Relicensing per changeset?

2011-02-08 Thread Andrew Gregory
On 7 February 2011 11:05, 4x4falcon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: it will also be in fosm.org already and will stay there after any deletion from osm. Plus there are several others storing full planet files for after any deletion date. Thanks for that link. I wasn't aware of it. --

Re: [talk-au] Relicensing per changeset?

2011-02-06 Thread Andrew Gregory
On 5 February 2011 21:35, Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote: Well, yes. This is one reason I've stopped putting data in, if I don't know the original source of the ways I'm working on. If you want to be sure your changes can be kept, and you know the original way is bad, you could delete

Re: [talk-au] Relicensing per changeset?

2011-02-04 Thread Andrew Gregory
On 3 February 2011 08:38, Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 February 2011 09:28, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: I also wonder how this works, using your example, if the user had entered street names and then another user came along and fixed a spelling mistake in one

Re: [talk-au] Revert 5439540?

2010-08-09 Thread Andrew Gregory
plugin. I guess that's what you used? I've downloaded that now so I guess in future I might be able to do that sort of thing myself? Still reading the wiki docos -- Andrew Gregory mailto:and...@scss.com.au http://www.scss.com.au/family/andrew

Re: [talk-au] General Observations.

2010-05-19 Thread Andrew Gregory
means there's a couple of St . that I need to go back and fix to Saint .. -- Andrew Gregory mailto:and...@scss.com.au http://www.scss.com.au/family/andrew/ ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo

Re: [talk-au] Tagging stormwater drain areas?

2010-05-17 Thread Andrew Gregory
and for some reason decided it wasn't right. However, now that I've looked at it again, it is *exactly* right. Sometimes I think there are too many options to choose from. Thanks! I knew talking about this would help me figure this out. -- Andrew Gregory mailto:and...@scss.com.au http

Re: [talk-au] Tagging stormwater drain areas?

2010-05-16 Thread Andrew Gregory
. area=yes is required because the wiki page for drain: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:waterway%3Ddrain only lists way elements for it. John mentioned surface=grass. I've never seen one of these with grass. More like surface=ground/dirt/sand/gravel/compacted. -- Andrew Gregory mailto:and

Re: [talk-au] New gateway motorway bridge duplication

2010-05-15 Thread Andrew Gregory
/?mt0=mapnikmt1=googlemaplon=115.75774lat=-31.74252zoom=14 We're still waiting... BTW, OSM had the extension rendered the day after! :) -- Andrew Gregory mailto:and...@scss.com.au http://www.scss.com.au/family/andrew/ ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Mini Roundabouts.

2010-04-29 Thread Andrew Gregory
in Australian Road standards or not. However, once you add an island and kerbing, they become a full roundabout, and need (IMHO) to be fully drawn and tagged appropriately. That's how I've been doing them anyway. $0.02 -- Andrew Gregory mailto:and...@scss.com.au http://www.scss.com.au/family/andrew

Re: [OSM-talk] Street name abbreviations

2010-04-24 Thread Andrew Gregory
convenient for my purposes. If only it were possible to click table headers to sort the data... -- Andrew Gregory mailto:and...@scss.com.au http://www.scss.com.au/family/andrew/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Mini Roundabouts.

2010-04-24 Thread Andrew Gregory
, I've seen lots of those too, and have been changing them to junction=roundabout (with a proper circular road). I'm not sure about traffic_calming=island? -- Andrew Gregory mailto:and...@scss.com.au http://www.scss.com.au/family/andrew/ ___ Talk-au

[OSM-talk] Map export broken in IE/Opera

2010-03-05 Thread Andrew Gregory
when I last did an export. Thanks. -- Andrew Gregory mailto:and...@scss.com.au http://www.scss.com.au/family/andrew/ ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] I ordered my first personal camera so I can do 'photomapping' or 'geotagging'

2010-02-23 Thread Andrew Gregory
://my.opera.com/Andrew%20Gregory/blog/photo-geotagging. BTW, I use Geosetter http://www.geosetter.de and have been able to add various EXIF values including the date/time stamp and location to regular JPEGs, such as those taken by typical mobile phones. HTH, -- Andrew Gregory mailto:and...@scss.com.au

Re: [OSM-talk] Photo_mapping - How to put EXIF data into a jpg image

2010-02-21 Thread Andrew Gregory
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 13:03:40 +1100, Greg Troxel g...@ir.bbn.com wrote: John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com writes: On 22 February 2010 06:10, Jochen Plumeyer joc...@plumeyer.org wrote: Be aware of your time zone (and daylight savings timezone as well) of your camera, as GPX times are

Re: [talk-au] OSM in Feb Silicon Chip

2010-01-29 Thread Andrew Gregory
On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:56:10 +0800, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 29 January 2010 17:41, Andrew Gregory and...@scss.com.au wrote: OSM is briefly mentioned as a map source in the GPS Car Computer article in the Feb 2010 issue of Silicon Chip. There's even a screen shot

[talk-au] OSM in Feb Silicon Chip

2010-01-28 Thread Andrew Gregory
OSM is briefly mentioned as a map source in the GPS Car Computer article in the Feb 2010 issue of Silicon Chip. There's even a screen shot! (Yick - lots of mini-roundabouts - should fix them sometime) Thank goodness the sea levels hadn't risen while they were doing their article. ;-) --

Re: [talk-au] Blue?

2010-01-22 Thread Andrew Gregory
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:49:39 +0800, Arie Paap wildmy...@gmail.com wrote: The correct coastline data seems to be in use again. Tiles that still have blue background are updated when resubmitted for rendering. Would be nice to be able to determine what date the rendered coastline comes from.

Re: [talk-au] Questions following recent trip

2009-11-29 Thread Andrew Gregory
On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:11:04 +0800, Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au wrote: I have a few questions following my recent holidays - drive from Bathurst to Melbourne and back with a few side tracks including Mount Bogong (a long walk up), and to the previously unmapped Flinders Island (I'm

Re: [OSM-talk] Cheap Recorder

2009-07-23 Thread Andrew Gregory
to SD cards. I have to admit it's also a pretty cool idea. ;-) -- Andrew Gregory mailto:and...@scss.com.au ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk