Re: [talk-au] [sharedmapau] Re: Mass revert now??

get it for you at considerable personal effort. _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://about.me/jrc 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.' - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963) Please send URLs, not attachments

Re: [talk-au] [sharedmapau] Re: Mass revert now??

grass, but to complain about ingratitude on my part is simply unfair. -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://about.me/jrc 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.' - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963) Please

[talk-au] Aus. contact in Google Maps?

on internal paths, roads, etc.? jim -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://about.me/jrc 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.'  - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963) Please send URLs, not attachments: http

Re: [talk-au] temp name change

___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://about.me/jrc 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity

[talk-au] Cool cartography geek stuff

http://www.maproomblog.com/2011/01/map_projections_applied_to_photos.php jim -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://about.me/jrc 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.'  - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963

[talk-au] some contemporary mapping mashup or (map mashupping)

http://mapvisage.appspot.com/static/floodmap/map.html jim -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://about.me/jrc 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.'  - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963) Please send URIs

[talk-au] historical fascination with mapping stuff...

http://www.thejanuarist.com/5-fascinating-maps-of-london/ -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://about.me/jrc 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.'  - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963) Please send URIs

[talk-au] Interesting analysis of map readability

http://www.41latitude.com/post/2072504768/google-maps-label-readability Sent from mobile device ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

[talk-au] a local data compilation ruling that may be of interest

or not... http://minterstmt.blogspot.com/2010/12/no-copyright-in-white-and-yellow-pages.html jim -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful

[talk-au] For those long winter evenings...

http://www.t-reichling.de/en/mocs_euromap.shtml ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

[talk-au] now, why would you want to do this?

http://prettymaps.stamen.com jim -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.'  - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963

[talk-au] OSM, eat your heart out... :)

http://8bitcity.com/map?London -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.' - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963) Please send URIs

[talk-au] interesting spatial visualization

sorry for the spate of mapspam, but this one is kinda cool... http://www.projectalbemarle.com/index.php?id=county -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity

Re: [talk-au] OSM, eat your heart out... :)

*Now* we're talking.. :) jim On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: It'd be better like this: http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/FTN_CommunicationCity_06t.png :) b On 8 July 2010 19:21, Jim Croft jim.cr...@gmail.com wrote: http

[talk-au] ArcGIS editor for OSM

http://martenhogeweg.blogspot.com/2010/07/announcing-arcgis-editor-for.html jim -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.' - Robert

[talk-au] A cute map reading logo...

@jatorre this is a lovely logo from fortiousone http://yfrog.com/mrq2tp ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.' - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963

[talk-au] Another graphic use of OSM

@sebchan: Absolutely amazing analysis of geotagged photos - Locals vs Tourists #12 (GTWA #27): Sydney on Flickr - http://bit.ly/cMYTQO Original Tweet: http://twitter.com/sebchan/status/15692611438 Sent via TweetDeck (www.tweetdeck.com) Sent from mobile device

Re: [talk-au] Another graphic use of OSM

I don't really know... I was just looking at the mashup involving OSM data and thought it was pretty cool that a community effort gets used in ways we might not expect... jim On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 1:08 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 8:25 PM, Jim Croft

Re: [talk-au] Mini Roundabouts.

=knmd=20100122 ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society

Re: [talk-au] Mini Roundabouts.

? -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.' - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963) ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk

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

=-27.39654,152.910356z=22t=knmd=20100123 Cheers, Chris ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles

[talk-au] Protected Planet shape files

it will happen. jim -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.' - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963

[talk-au] followup on world database of protected areas

from @rdmpage: @Jim_Croft You can get KML for areas in individual countries after registering at http://www.wdpa.org but no @creativecommons license jim -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one

Re: [talk-au] A problem area (maybe) for the someone in Canberra

we asked the original mapper and got his/her information on the track? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499

Re: [talk-au] Where do national/state park boundaries come from?

see that attempting to find the boundaries by driving/walking around the park would be very fruitful. Steve ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- _ Jim Croft

Re: [talk-au] Incorrectly expanding abbreviations

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.' - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963

[talk-au] Fwd: A.Word.A.Day--potlatch

-- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.' - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963) ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au

[talk-au] At last! a useful dataset! :)

http://data.vic.gov.au/raw_data/victorian-microbreweries/54 jim -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.' - Robert Frost, poet (1874

Re: [talk-au] tennis court land

, particularly privacy.  With the mapping of tennis courts taking place, is there any reason to not start mapping out private pools in the suburbs?  Is there any existing tagging for this? -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft

Re: [talk-au] Tennis court land

mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap for Canberra

Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.' - Robert Frost

[talk-au] you gotta laugh...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/09/people-in-scuba-gear-chas_n_455787.html jim -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity

Re: [talk-au] Canberra - last white spot on the map

nice - that would be a great help... how long before the images are visible? jim On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: If it's helps, NearMap started flying a Canberra survey yesterday. 2010/1/14 Jim Croft jim.cr...@gmail.com: Canberra seems to be fairly

[talk-au] date time formats

forgotten the context, but there was some chat a few weeks back on standard date formats, date ranges. etc. this may be of interest: http://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/examples.html jim -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles

[talk-au] OSM in Haiti

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Haiti#2010_Earthquake_Response http://blog.ushahidi.com/index.php/2010/01/13/haiti-earthquake/ jim -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which

[talk-au] Interactive map of scale of Haiti earthquake

Not strictly OSM, but worth a look to see the distribution and scale of the impact http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/haiti-earthquake/map.htm jim -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which

[talk-au] Canberra - last white spot on the map

computer and projector might be useful for training in the editing tools or arguing about (sorry, discussing) presentation features and tags, etc. The place has been surveyed a number of times and it should be possible to get permission to use some of this information. jim -- _ Jim

Re: [talk-au] Default access restrictions

laws. -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.' - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963) ___ Talk

Re: [talk-au] Distinguish between National, State etc parks

/listinfo/talk-au -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.' - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963

Re: [talk-au] Distinguish between National, State etc parks

Careful with NI, CI and JB - the entire territory is not national park. jim On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:35 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/1/4 Jim Croft jim.cr...@gmail.com: does not work... only a handful of the named national parks are of national jurisdiction

Re: [talk-au] Distinguish between National, State etc parks

of protected areas. Will have a look for it... jim On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 7:57 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/1/4 Jim Croft jim.cr...@gmail.com: Careful with NI, CI and JB - the entire territory is not national park. I was just pointing out they were outside territory

Re: [talk-au] Distinguish between National, State etc parks

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 8:11 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Mon, 4 Jan 2010, Jim Croft wrote: I think there might be an international classification/ontology of protected areas. Will have a look for it... now that is against the spirit of the OSM wiki isn't it? you can't use any outside

Re: [talk-au] Mapping road closures...

... ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft 'A civilized society is one which tolerates

Re: [talk-au] Mapping road closures...

think it might have to be derived, e.g. http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/vb-date2.htm#Month http://code.google.com/p/datejs/ jim On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 3:46 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/1/2 Jim Croft jim.cr...@gmail.com: iso 8601: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601

[talk-au] mapping animals in the streets

:) http://www.kartozoologi.no/English/animals.html -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft ... in pursuit of the meaning of leaf ... ... 'All is leaf' ('Alles ist Blatt') - Goethe

[talk-au] roads, maps, remoteness...

http://www.newscientist.com/gallery/small-world -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft ... in pursuit of the meaning of leaf ... ... 'All is leaf' ('Alles ist Blatt') - Goethe

Re: [talk-au] Vote on highway=nonexistent

=nonexistent? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft ... in pursuit

Re: [talk-au] Twitter like emails

://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft ... in pursuit of the meaning of leaf ... ... 'All is leaf' ('Alles ist Blatt') - Goethe

Re: [talk-au] natural=land v natural=coastline

. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft ... in pursuit of the meaning of leaf ... ... 'All is leaf' ('Alles ist

Re: [talk-au] More on the survey tag

their nautical charts, not for navigation purely as an educational exercise. Cheers Ross -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft ... in pursuit of the meaning of leaf ... ... 'All is leaf' ('Alles ist Blatt') - Goethe

Re: [talk-au] Our own satellite imagery?

the imagery we could see if Yahoo or someone is interested in the results and willing to fund us to do it... ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr

[talk-au] based on osm...

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/08/0812_data_visualization_heroes/3.htm -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft ... in pursuit of the meaning of leaf ... ... 'All is leaf' ('Alles ist Blatt') - Goethe

Re: [talk-au] Norfolk Island

/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines#Australian_Road_Tagging ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles

[talk-au] Javascript map api abstraction thingy

Did I miss this on this list? any Oz implementations? http://mapstraction.com/ with osm support and demo: http://mapstraction.com/demo.php?map=openstreetmap jim -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://www.google.com/profiles/jim.croft ... in pursuit

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL License + Outline Procedure

tool for the job. jim On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:45 PM, James Livingston doc...@mac.com wrote: On 28/02/2009, at 12:17 PM, Jim Croft wrote: Out of curiosity, would one of the Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/) licenses be able to provide thefunctionality and the flexibility we might

Re: [talk-au] place=?

) iEYEARECAAYFAkk2Vf0ACgkQhTADrt6Jx1w1HACcDNZ5cNRramKYWy3em1AMgq0F MjYAnRWbUTSkxzsYO0YOmdzAdD2KZgYW =zBXc -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- _ Jim Croft ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [talk-au] Google nearly up to date

-- _ Jim Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED] Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. - Joseph Conrad, author (1857-1924) ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Google nearly up to date

, what are the legalities of getting names from street view? -- _ Jim Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED] Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality. - Joseph Conrad, author (1857-1924) ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Tracing items.

of and witness in action... :) jim _ Jim Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves. - Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher (1889-1951) ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au

[talk-au] facts

In relation to our copyright discussions, the following might be of interest: http://sciencecommons.org/weblog/archives/2008/05/12/how-to-free-your-facts/ attribution stacking is an interesting concept... jim -- _ Jim Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know why we are here