Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-15 Thread Gary Gallagher
Thanks for all the comments, I think I'll hold off. It does seem unfortunate that there is no basic work-flow to convert a boundary into a relation containing the ways that make it up. From what you've said Nick merging nodes still keeps them as separate ways just stacked on top of each other -

[talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-14 Thread Gary Gallagher
I've been working on my suburb (Brunswick East), and keep coming across tangled messes of ways caused by the boundary data effectively floating above different ways. Roads are being connected to the boundary instead of the the road. The road or other way has been moved to create a clear path for

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

2011-05-02 Thread Gary Gallagher
I'm curious about the legal position on tracing as a derived work (probably different in different countries). Perhaps Microsoft saying it does not consider tracing to be a derived work does not stem from their largess but their reading of the legal position. Amongst artist friends I've heard

Re: [talk-au] Transponders mistagged

2011-04-22 Thread Gary Gallagher
On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 13:43 +1000, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 13:31:22 +1000 Gary Gallagher g.null.dev...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I've been editing some areas of rural Victoria and I keep coming across communications transponders that have been mis-tagged as relations