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From: Andrew Harvey
Sent: Thursday, 15 November 2018 9:26 PM
To: OSM Australian Talk List
Subject: [talk-au] TMR Road Centerlines dataset
I just got the permission waiver for the QLD Transport and Main Roads surveyed
centerline dataset,
Hello all,
I have a question about applying the ODbL. I can take this to the legal list,
but I am hoping there is a quick and easy answer.
Some contractors working for my organisation are building a network model for
Queensland using OSM data.
The model is for routing, and has value-added
>Navel glazing ?
>Are not windmills bores? Simply powered by the wind.
Some windmills might actually be mills? Which means they mill grain? (grind
into flour)
Cheers,
Nick Lawrence
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Hello Australia OSM,
I am a spatial science officer in Qld Transport and Main Roads, involved in the
provision of Open Data for public consumption.
Our data is generally released under a CC-BY license, but I have an opportunity
to make a case for the ODbL to be a license option. Currently data
3 AM
To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Roadside rest areas tagged as camp sites
On 24-Apr-17 09:47 AM, Nicholas G Lawrence wrote:
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> There are also Driver Reviver spots which may also be useful to capture?
>
> Cheers,
> Nick Lawrence
>
>
I see 'Driver Revive
Following on, I should point out that Qld TMR's view of Rest Areas is that they
are a safety feature of the roads, specifically to combat fatigue, which makes
them different to camp sites.
Cheers,
Nick Lawrence
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From: Nicholas G Lawrence [mailto:nicholas.g.lawre
Quoting from the "Guide to Queensland Roads" by Queensland Department of
Transport and Main Roads.
"Motorist Rest Areas
- Rest areas are there for you to stop and rest, making your trip safer and
more enjoyable.
- Rest areas are not long-term camping sites. However motorists are able to
take
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From: Florian Lohoff [mailto:f...@zz.de]
Sent: Tuesday, 30 June 2015 3:52 AM
To: Lester Caine
Cc: talk@openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] Layers and landuse
On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 11:49:21AM +0100, Lester Caine wrote:
On 29/06/15 10:59, Florian Lohoff wrote:
Subject: [OSM-talk] Howto tag a prominent dead tree?
Hi,
this must have come up before... any ideas?
What does prominent mean?
If the dead tree has some cultural or historical significance, then it could be
placed in the same category as, for example, a statue or other form of art for
public
Hi all,
What is the convention for tagging an address for a residential property in a
suburb (Coorparoo) in a city (Brisbane)?
addr:city = Brisbane
Or
addr:city = Coorparoo
Or
addr:suburb = Coorparoo
Which is best for navigation and routing?
Cheers
Nick Lawrence
Senior Spatial Science
Forgetting the tagging for a moment, is it not irresponsible to be
mapping and thus being seen as encouraging such activities?
Every year when there is hot weather there are warnings not to swim in
lakes and rivers, and these are inevitably followed by reports in the
media of a tragic loss of
For example if a farm field was
mapped this way then any barrier for it, such as hedge, gate etc,
would appear to be on the road as well.
So, for a polygon, the boundary can be tagged for a barrier that
completely encircles the polygon?
Is this all that common? In my experience the barrier
I did not see this linked on this list, so here you go:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/magazine/googles-plan-for-global-
domination-dont-ask-why-ask-where.html?_r=0
page 6 of 8, second paragraph
The O.S.M. map data is free now -
but using it comes with a catch. Any
improvement, or any
On 11/11/2013 06:02 PM, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote:
I think it is an interesting proposal to put an alternative mapstyle on
osm.org without the admin boundaries.
While a map without borders is quite a powerful philosophical
statement, is it really part of Openstreetmap's core role ? As
If we agree that borders are a problem, then what is the best solution?
Do you mean borders are a problem in general, or are there specific
problems related to specific borders like those mentioned in this thread?
I'd argue that the GIS community has already decided that layers
Hello all,
I'm trying to convert the Queensland, Australia OSM roads into a GIS format (esri shape or mapinfo) using GDAL 1.10
I downloaded a .osm.pbf file for australia from http://download.geofabrik.de/australia-oceania/australia.html
I'm only really after the geometry that represents roads.
Hello all,
I'm trying to convert the Queensland, Australia OSM roads into a GIS format (esri shape or mapinfo) using GDAL 1.10
I downloaded a .osm.pbf file for australia from http://download.geofabrik.de/australia-oceania/australia.html
I'm only really after the geometry that represents roads.
On 2013-07-22 06:33, John Firebaugh wrote:
The rationale for making the change in Leaflet is to make it so that
you can zoom in several levels on a given point without needing to
reposition your cursor at each zoom level. For that reason, I prefer
the new behavior.
Zooming in by using
Any thoughts on whether the completed sections of the Newcastle
Inner City Bypass (now being referred to by the RMS as A37 -
Newcastle Outer Ring Road) should be classified as type Motorway …?
If they're calling it A37 then they're not calling it a motorway.
Could you just ask the
Abandoned makes it sounds like there are tracks in place for the
length of the line, just no trains running on it.
Is ruined a tag?
nick
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So for example crowdsourced infromation, volunteered geographic
information, non-authoritative data, or something else?
Crowdsourced non-authoritative geographic data ?
I'm personally not sure I agree with the non-authoritative part.
Instead of non-authoritative I prefer the term
Trying to find this answer on the wiki, but I can't.
Is CC0 data compatible with ODBL?
Kind regards,
Nick Lawrence
Senior Spatial Science Officer| Geospatial, Road Design Competency
Engineering Technology Branch| Department of Transport and Main Roads
Floor 6 | Spring Hill Office Complex |
I check out my place of work in openstreetmap.
I am a bit confused that the building (a tower of offices) is represented twice. There is a large building footprint over the entire grounds that is tagged Offices and inside this is a smaller building footprint tagged Building.
Now, the large
I check out my place of work in openstreetmap.
I am a bit confused that the building (a tower of offices) is
represented twice.
There is a large building footprint over the entire grounds that is tagged
Offices and inside this is a smaller building footprint tagged Building.
Hi all,
Mike from TMR got in touch with me this morning reversing his
statement about using tourist route information on local council
maps, see below. I haven't used them to add anything to OSM anyway.
Hi Wil,
Unfortunately your posting on Open Street Map has caused me some grief!
It is an interesting issue. Military bases and nuclear facilities are
often fully mapped in OSM, but often the location of many Aboriginal
carvings and sensitive areas etc, are not.
It is my understanding that for some tribes even the location of
sacred sites is only available to
Hello all,
I would like to generate a map showing the impact of the license change on Australia and New Zealand.
Any advice on how to generate such a map?
Kind regards,
Nick Lawrence
Senior Spatial Science Officer| Geospatial, Road Assets Design
Engineering Technology| Department of
Is OSM Inspector working? There appears to a Layer problem error?
Kind regards,
Nick Lawrence
Senior Spatial Science Officer| Geospatial, Road Assets Design
Engineering Technology| Department of Transport and Main Roads
Floor 6 | Spring Hill Office Complex | 477 Boundary Street | Spring Hill
Hello all,
I would like to generate a map showing the impact of the license change on Australia and New Zealand.
Any advice on how to generate such a map?
Kind regards,
Nick Lawrence
Senior Spatial Science Officer| Geospatial, Road Assets Design
Engineering Technology| Department of
Is OSM Inspector working? There appears to a Layer problem error?
Kind regards,
Nick Lawrence
Senior Spatial Science Officer| Geospatial, Road Assets Design
Engineering Technology| Department of Transport and Main Roads
Floor 6 | Spring Hill Office Complex | 477 Boundary Street | Spring Hill
It really depends on what you want to visualize. None of the
available tools give an 100% exact picture (simply because that
would have required setting up a clone of the main DB and
essentially carrying out the redaction on it). The shape files from
Frederiks OSMI layer are available,
But one newbie deleted about 300 streets, seemingly for a
wedding-related
event map :-(
...
I couldn't help laughing, that's actually pretty funny.
Did you contact the user?
Yes, I sent a message, but got no reply. Perhaps they were too
embarrassed, so the revert
Possibility of considering undecided as accepted (if they don't respond)
Completely not going to happen. Anyone suggesting that needs to read some
law. You absolutely cannot do that [1].
I accepted the license, and also ticked the box that said I was happy with
my contributions to be
Hi,
I've got a problem with the OSMAND UI on my HTC Legend.
When I do a Search for a location, defined by a Lat/Long where I want to type in the co-ordinates, the number keypad completely obscures the entry fields for Lat and Long, so I can't even see what I'm typing. This prevents me from
Hi,
I'm looking at the wiki about converting osm raw data to GML format (for processing further into either shapefile or mapinfo table), and the wiki page http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GML says that the software may be incompatible with API v0.6 from 2009?
Is this still a problem? Has
I just got my edition of GIS Weekly Review, which highlights a mapping project using
satellite imagery in southern Sudan, which is in the process of seccession.
Is this anything for OSM to look at? There appears to be a huminitarian involvement
in the effort of collecting imagery.
Cheers,
nick
Anthony wrote:
After admitting to tracing from Google imagery, you refused to tell which
objects were involved.
Oh my God. How many times do I have to say this? NO OBJECTS WEREINVOLVED.
I don't understand how you can both admit tracing from Google imagery
and at the same time
On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 8:54 PM, nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au wrote:
Anthony, when you traced from google imagery, what went into
OSM?
Nothing.
So why did you say that you had traced from google imagery in
the first place? (if nothing went into OSM)
nick
* Anthony goes on to have in his possession simultaneously tea and
no tea, thereby solving one of the stickier puzzle in the
Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure game[1]. Go Anthony!
Was there ever a sequel to that text adventure? It
kind of ended on a cliff-hanger ...
nick
On 11 February 2011 02:05, nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au wrote:
Was there ever a sequel to that text adventure? It
kind of ended on a cliff-hanger ...
Well there was a crucial bit where the protagonist left the planet...
Last bit I remember, the protagonist left the spaceship
to
On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 1:13 PM, nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au wrote:
Risk assessment and hazards are also relevant.
The grassy area next to a steel mill might not be plain old
grass, who knows what has been stored there and what kind
of hazards, from chemicals to rusty nails are
For some purposes the 'landuse=industrial' information will be more
important, for other 'surface=grass'. These are different kinds of
information.
Risk assessment and hazards are also relevant.
The grassy area next to a steel mill might not be plain old
grass, who knows what has been
Is there an Android OS app for osm?
nick
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Bureaucrats have their own agendas
and are most unlikely to want to share property
GIS knowledge is power, undiluted and building up your own GIS threatens many
systems.
I'm a bureaucrat, and whilst I can't speak for all bureaucrats,
I'm keen to release data under a CC license simply to
Another article on the same topic,
http://searchengineland.com/woman-follows-google-maps-walking-directions-gets-hit-sues-43212
Kind Regards,
Nicholas Lawrence
Geographic Information Systems Coordinator | Geospatial Technologies
Engineering Technology / Design, Environment
The United States is about to give the now nearly ubiquitous Global
Positioning System an $8 billion overhaul. The improvements, which
involve replacing each of the 24 aging GPS satellites, are estimated
to take over a decade to complete, and will see the triangulation
margin of error
Hello Australian OSM,
The Surveying and Spatial Sciences Institute and the Australian Computer Society have a joint group, the Spatial Information Technology Special Interest Group (SITSIG) which hosts a small event every few months in Brisbane.
We were hoping to do a presentation on Open
On 22 March 2010 14:54, nicholas.g.lawre...@tmr.qld.gov.au wrote:
Is there anyone in Brisbane that might be interested in standing up and
giving a presentation?
When and where is this going to take place?
Have not chosen an exact date, it might be an evening session, or
scheduled for
.. I'm still unclear how one is supposed to
distinguish between a smooth, wide urban footpath and a hiking trail.
A footpath can be traversed by a weelchair, perambulator or shopping trolley?
Regards,
Nick
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Hello Mappers,
It is Queensland's (Australia) 150th birthday, and to celebrate, the Surveying and Spatial
Sciences Institute (SSSI) organised the placement of a number of commemorative
permanent marks around the state.
http://sssiq150.org/About-SSSI-Q150-Project.aspx
These marks are part
Hello Mappers,
It is Queensland's (Australia) 150th birthday, and to celebrate, the Surveying and Spatial
Sciences Institute (SSSI) organised the placement of a number of commemorative
permanent marks around the state.
http://sssiq150.org/About-SSSI-Q150-Project.aspx
These marks are part
http://www.amateurphotographer.co.
uk/news/Photographers_face_wider_anti_terror_curbs_news_281398.html
From a UK site, where they are reporting on training civilians to keep a
watch
on
'hostile reconnaissance'. This urges people to look out for
'overt/covert
photography' as well as those
RC airplanes aren't cheaper for two reasons:
1. RC airplanes (and any civilian-operated UAV) has significant flight
restrictions - distance and altitude. Flying at low altitude (under
500 feet MSL), you end up with a higher spatial resolution but you
have to stitch together many more images
How about the option of contributors transferring their
copyright to OSM (the legal entity) which can then choose
to release the data under an appropriate license?
This is not a good idea because the OSMF can be bought out quite easily
by a
big company.
I don't understand. Bought out
My main problem with mapping areas to the centre line (I'm not really
counting landuse here, its possibly an exception) is the farcical
situations to which it leads. The buildings example is the best: it's
not uncommon at all to have a road abutted on both sides by buildings.
If we map them
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