Re: [OSM-talk] GpsWeather: When conditions for mapping are good

2008-01-02 Thread Franc Carter
I have found an external antenna also dramatically improved things (for a car), my working assumption is that it is because the external antenna gets an uninterrupted view of more of the sky - i.e not blocked by the roof of the car On Jan 3, 2008 9:16 AM, Jo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike

Re: [OSM-talk] [EMAIL PROTECTED] memory issues ?

2008-01-04 Thread Franc Carter
Just so it's 'recorded somewhere' ;-) I resolved this - I needed more than 4GB of memory, I added another 4GB of swap (3GB real memory, 5GB swap) and the tile generated. cheers On Dec 28, 2007 7:37 AM, Franc Carter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've just upgraded my main machine to 3GB

Re: [OSM-talk] source=yahoo

2008-01-09 Thread Franc Carter
I have seen these two source=Yahoo Imagery source=yahoo_imagery I'd be interested in knowing which is the more generally accepted one. cheers On Jan 10, 2008 7:12 AM, Lukasz Stelmach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings Everyone. If there is source=landsat for features derived from

Re: [OSM-talk] oneway except bicyckes

2008-03-12 Thread Franc Carter
thanks On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Michael Collinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 10:51 AM 3/12/2008, Franc Carter wrote: What's the best way to tag a piece of road that is oneway except for bicycles ? oneway=yes cycleway=opposite OR if there is a marked lane for bicycles: oneway

[OSM-talk] oneway except bicyckes

2008-03-12 Thread Franc Carter
Hi, What's the best way to tag a piece of road that is oneway except for bicycles ? thanks -- Franc ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Unknown road classifications

2008-05-12 Thread Franc Carter
Back when I started OSMing, I came across the tag 'complete=no', so this is what I tend to use On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Steve Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 11 May 2008, Jeffrey Martin wrote: Did we ever decide what to do when a road continues but we didn't continue down the

Re: [OSM-talk] Using Osmarender to hilight Relation/Routes?

2008-05-16 Thread Franc Carter
Hi Frederick, did you manage to put something together that renders turn restrictions ? I'm interested in anything you have that does that. cheers On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sort of like the previously feature image:

Re: [OSM-talk] GPS receiver orientation

2008-07-26 Thread Franc Carter
My entirely annecdotal experience has been that my TomTom 910 takes longer to get a fix when I am moving than stationary. I have an external aerial, so the movement should be the main determinent -- Franc -Original Message- From: Tim Waters (chippy) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday,

[OSM-talk] xapi question

2009-08-22 Thread Franc Carter
Hi, A while ago I tried to work out how to use osmxapi to extract just the highways that didn't have a name in an area, but couldn't work out how to express this. Is this possible ? or have I just been stupid ;-) thanks -- Franc ___ talk mailing

Re: [OSM-talk] turn restriction checker

2008-09-13 Thread Franc Carter
I have added a check on whether the 'via' is the first/last node in the from and to ways On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 8:12 AM, Nic Roets [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Would be great if it could also check this: * a way may not be in any from or to role if it goes *through* the junction (because in

Re: [OSM-talk] NoName

-- Thread Franc Carter
ot;; google_ad_width = 160; google_ad_height = 600; google_ad_format = "160x600_as"; google_ad_channel = "8427791634"; google_color_border = "FF"; google_color_bg = "FF"; google_color_link = "006792"; google_color_url = "006792"; goog

[OSM-talk] script to make gps traces public ?

2008-10-08 Thread Franc Carter
Hi, does anyone know of a script that I can use to make all of my gps traces public, as I often forget to click the public checkbox thanks -- Franc ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] enclosed areas = borders

2009-02-06 Thread Franc Carter
Hi, I am working on how to import the Australian suburb boundaries. I have these as a set of shapefiles that define an enclosed area for each suburb. The suburbs share many points in common and the outline of one areas overlays the outline of the neighbouring suburb(s) as would be expected.

Re: [OSM-talk] enclosed areas = borders

2009-02-07 Thread Franc Carter
areas that share nodes. On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Marcus Wolschon mar...@wolschon.biz wrote: On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 4:17 AM, Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am working on how to import the Australian suburb boundaries. I have these as a set of shapefiles

[OSM-talk] Australian suburb boundaries

2009-02-21 Thread Franc Carter
Hi, The Australian Bureau of Statistics has boundaries for the suburbs in Australia under a compatible license (and we have official permission). The talk-au list has been discussing the import and the current thoughts are here:-

Re: [talk-au] Armidale completed; wiki updated

2008-02-29 Thread Franc Carter
Congratulations, nice work cheers On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Gordon Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For info... I've finished the vehicle-centric view of Armidale, updated the WikiProject_Australia entry, moved Armidale out of the Hunter Valley and into the Northern Tablelands :-), and

Re: [talk-au] should we migrate to osm forum

2008-06-07 Thread Franc Carter
I think flexibility is the core thing needed from whatever is used for mass communication. Some people find email better, some forms and some rss. So if we are gong to change then I think it needs to support mirroring to all three of these. On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 6:48 AM, David Dean [EMAIL

Re: [talk-au] diary entry with interesting visualization of users contributions

2008-10-14 Thread Franc Carter
The site said that it was UK only - has this changed ? cheers On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for sharing these links! I've added a RSS feed of edits for a couple of particular locations I am concentrating on, so it is nice to see if any new contributors pop

Re: [talk-au] Major road cleanup

2009-01-04 Thread Franc Carter
I map almost exactly the same way On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Roy Rankin rran...@ihug.com.au wrote: When to use ways as common boundaries is an interesting issue with OSM. I have been an active mapper since last Easter and therefore I have though a lot about this. I am currently doing

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2009-01-11 Thread Franc Carter
Hi Ben, have you managed to find a good source of boundaries for NSW ? cheers On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 9:03 AM, Ben Kelley ben.kel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Does anyone have any thoughts on how to mark suburb boundaries (in areas that have them)? The closest thing I can find is

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2009-01-11 Thread Franc Carter
. The cadastral layer for the NSW Lands Department geospatial portal probably has them, but I'm not sure of the licensing issues. - Ben. On 1/12/09, Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ben, have you managed to find a good source of boundaries for NSW ? cheers On Mon

[talk-au] private suburban roads

2009-01-12 Thread Franc Carter
Hi, I've just mapped an area in Sydney where there are several residential roads marked as private but are not gated. What access=* tags do you think should be put on these ? cheers -- Franc ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2009-01-24 Thread Franc Carter
I'm happy to follow this up with the ABS if no-one else has done so yet. cheers On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Luke Woolley lswool...@gmail.com wrote: Well, this is the copyright info displayed on the ABS website, which states that the data appears to be under the Creative Commons

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2009-01-29 Thread Franc Carter
. Should I wait until the license issue gets 'sorted' ? cheers On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.comwrote: I'm happy to follow this up with the ABS if no-one else has done so yet. cheers On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Luke Woolley lswool...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2009-02-04 Thread Franc Carter
to sanity check the data before we upload it. cheers On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 6:23 AM, James Churchill pel...@gmail.com wrote: Franc Carter franc.car...@... writes: While putting together an email for this I came across an issue. Currently OSM is Creative Commons licensed which looks pretty

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2009-02-04 Thread Franc Carter
a reasonably high level of confidence in them cheers On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Darrin Smith bel...@beldin.org wrote: On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 15:52:43 +1100 Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com wrote: From a 'philosophical point of view', I tend to agree that suburbs are made of a set

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2009-02-05 Thread Franc Carter
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Cameron osm-mailing-li...@justcameron.comwrote: How much do suburbs change anyway? Perhaps any changes could simply be introduced manually. ~Cameron I suspect this is true, changing large numbers of suburbs sounds unlikely. If we had suddenly had a new set of

[talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2009-02-12 Thread Franc Carter
After some nashing of teeth and swearing I have script that converts the ABS data in to a set of non-overlapping ways with some minimal info on the ways. I'd like some volunteers who I can give some subset of the data to (name your subrubs/areas) to have a look over and see if it 'looks ok' (i.e

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2009-02-14 Thread Franc Carter
A quick update. David Dean found a bug, which I am working on. I'll let you know once I have a fix. cheers On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.comwrote: After some nashing of teeth and swearing I have script that converts the ABS data in to a set of non

[talk-au] Suburb boundaries - getting close

2009-02-16 Thread Franc Carter
Ok, it seems my conversion script is now producing sane results so it's time to work out what the final output should look like. The first question that I think we need to answer is, how do we represent the data in OSM, there appears to be 3 options:- 1. Closed ways 2. Relations 3.

Re: [talk-au] ABS Import Wiki page

2009-02-22 Thread Franc Carter
Yep, that seems to have a few advantages over the other order cheers On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:32 PM, BlueMM bluemm1975-...@yahoo.com wrote: Franc Carter franc.car...@... writes: Hi,It looks like the vote is in favour of relations and there is the beginnings of consensus around other

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries

2009-02-24 Thread Franc Carter
% complete map. Then again, if you mean 'importing' from your own dataset of survey info, then by all means Im in agreeance with the move. Anyone else got a thought on the issue? David On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 00:15 +1100, Franc Carter wrote: Hi folks, I am ready to start the import

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries

2009-02-25 Thread Franc Carter
lines on the map. Thanks. On 25/02/2009, at 9:16 PM, Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com wrote: I *believe* that it is a subdivision of a state. Sydney in an addressing sense refers to the CBD of the city (the area with post code 2000). cheers On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Nick

[talk-au] some post code boundaries

2009-02-26 Thread Franc Carter
Hi, From reading some info on the ABS web site and some random examples from the ABS data set it appears that 'some' postcode boundaries align exactly with suburb boundaries. For these I could import the post code boundaries in the same upload as the suburb boundaries Worth doing ? cheers --

[talk-au] suburb boundaries import

2009-02-28 Thread Franc Carter
Is now running, please leave anything with source=ABS_2006 alone until the import is complete cheers -- Franc ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries import

2009-03-01 Thread Franc Carter
writing, I should be asleep. - Original Message - From: Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com Date: Sunday, March 1, 2009 11:14 pm Subject: Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries import To: b.schulz...@scu.edu.au Cc: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Quite a while going on the current rate. The estimate

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries import

2009-03-01 Thread Franc Carter
in the same location as the db server?) ~Cameron 2009/3/1 Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:30 PM, b.schulz...@scu.edu.au wrote: Wow, that's almost a month. Well, keep us all posted :). This is rather exciting! Ok, that's nerdy, but we're on OSM so it's allowed

Re: [talk-au] Boundary questions.

2009-03-04 Thread Franc Carter
While we are thinking about alignment etc, I have found another case we should consider. In some areas the ABS data does not line up with the existing coastline which has come from yahoo or landsat., e.g * Yowie Bay in sydney which I assume comes from Yahoo * The Whitsunday islands that I

Re: [talk-au] Boundary questions.

2009-03-04 Thread Franc Carter
Agreed, it's not as simple as I was hoping ;-( cheers On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: In some areas the ABS data does not line up with the existing coastline which has come from yahoo or landsat., e.g * Yowie Bay in sydney which I assume comes

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries import

2009-03-05 Thread Franc Carter
I only have the licensing contact - I will follow up with her and see if I can get a content person. cheers On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 6:43 AM, Ben Kelley ben.kel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. Any thoughts on how to work out the real boundary when the ABS data disagrees with commonly known

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries import - Darwin quirk

2009-03-07 Thread Franc Carter
. -- *From:* Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com *To:* Ben Kelley ben.kel...@gmail.com *Cc:* OSM Australian Talk List talk-au@openstreetmap.org *Sent:* Friday, 6 March, 2009 6:38:47 AM *Subject:* Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries import I only have the licensing

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries import

2009-03-08 Thread Franc Carter
, and I would assume that their suburb boundaries are correct. This data should take precendence over ABS data. Regards, Narelle. 2009/3/8 Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com: I wonder if this is because the data is/was off when it was created(2006) or because the boundaries have changed

[talk-au] Update: suburb boundaries

2009-03-10 Thread Franc Carter
A quick update, the upload is 20% complete (yep, it's really slow). I am hopeful of getting an account on dev in the next week which should speed things up a lot. Failing that Michael Ritzert has kindly volunteered to run the upload from a server in Germany which should be better than Australia.

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries

2009-03-20 Thread Franc Carter
[snip] That made a serious difference the the speed of things, wow. Yep, latency is really nasty for this sort of thing Now to resolve the differences between my own boundary work and the ABS stuff in northern adelaide, and at a first glance I must say I'm glad I told you to upload

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries

2009-03-20 Thread Franc Carter
[snip] Futher poking around I've found the 'Unclassified SA' 'suburb', containing over 100 segments scattered all over the state, I assume most other states will have a similar object, what's the thoughts of everyone on this case? Is it really needed? (I assume it's just a category in the

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries

2009-03-20 Thread Franc Carter
Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] Futher poking around I've found the 'Unclassified SA' 'suburb', containing over 100 segments scattered all over the state, I assume most other states will have a similar object, what's the thoughts of everyone on this case

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries

2009-03-20 Thread Franc Carter
Boundaries are rendered on mapnik and osmarender as far as I know cheers On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 1:55 PM, James Andrewartha tr...@tartarus.uwa.edu.au wrote: On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 11:46 +1100, Franc Carter wrote: Hi all, The upload has completed (much faster running from dev

[talk-au] postcode boundaries

2009-03-20 Thread Franc Carter
I have taken a very simple approach to postcode boundaries(1), and extracted a separate .osm file which can be used to eyeball the data and add in the boundaries to osm. If anyone wants a subset of these for areas they are familiar with let me know. I don't have the bandwidth to make the whole

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries

2009-03-20 Thread Franc Carter
oops, not to the list On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.comwrote: I'm in the inner west of Sydney and am find that the boundaries are only *mostly correct* - so i'm not too surprised that outside the main cities they are a worse. Hopefully on a country wide

Re: [talk-au] suburb boundaries

2009-03-20 Thread Franc Carter
Glad to see not all of NSW has been incorporated ;-) cheers On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Franc Carter wrote: I noticed a small number of those in NSW and decided to ignore them and just put them, that might have been a bad idea NSW

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-16 Thread Franc Carter
I totally agee that it's a good idea to work this out, I've been silent on the matter because I'm far from clear as to what is a good approach. I'm currently wrestling with trying to get a handle on how we can tell whether the ABS data is more geographically accurate than yahoo or other data (not

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-27 Thread Franc Carter
I'll give some thought to how to fix this. If we have find that there are still issues after the bug fixs (i.e the editors can't split them in to smaller bits), I think I can work out how to delete the way, upload replacement shorter ways and link them back in to the relation cheers On Mon, Apr

Re: [talk-au] NSW/QLD Border

2009-05-24 Thread Franc Carter
Hmm, interesting. Does anyone have gps traces for this area that could be used to try to work out which is better ? cheers On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Delta Foxtrot delta_foxt...@yahoo.comwrote: The MacIntyre river and others form the NSW/QLD border and for much of the border area there

Re: [talk-au] Mass realignment of roads? (was Mapping things by importance)

2009-06-12 Thread Franc Carter
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 ;-( On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: I've come to the realisation

Re: [talk-au] Someone needs some help.

2009-06-25 Thread Franc Carter
I've cleaned this up with the exception of a couple of abbreviations that I don't know how to map back in to their full names (e.g QYS). While I'm there, I'm tempted to replace the current PGS coastline with the borders from ABS - a good idea ?? cheers On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 7:37 PM, Ross

Re: [talk-au] Someone needs some help.

2009-06-25 Thread Franc Carter
Thanks On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 7:04 AM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009, Franc Carter wrote: couple of abbreviations that I don't know how to map back in to their full names (e.g QYS). Sorry, got carried away with the send button qys as an abbreviation as a word

Re: [talk-au] Cooroy stuff-up

2009-07-19 Thread Franc Carter
dry weather road only ;-) cheers On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Jeff Price jeff.pr...@rocketmail.comwrote: Just in case anyone noticed the Cooroy district boundary was a mess and Gumbiol Rd now goes straight down the middle of Lake Macdonald, that was me. It was my first go at joining

Re: [talk-au] Potential bikeways data import from Logan City Council

2009-07-19 Thread Franc Carter
The two most important things I found for doing an import are:- * Clarifying the license - this bit tends to hur my head * The format of the provided data, if it's in some 'well known' format then there are often tools (perl/python/C etc modules) to make the job easier. cheers On Mon,

Re: [talk-au] ABS post code areas

2009-07-29 Thread Franc Carter
Thanks, I'll find out how big they are cheers On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:32 PM, John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 29/7/09, Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com wrote: I more than happy to put the extract somewhere - I just need to find a place. I'll re-extract them

[talk-au] ABS postcode boundaries

2009-07-29 Thread Franc Carter
Hi all, I've created a set of .osm files from the ABS postcode boundary data. Each .osm file is a way that encloses the postcode, so that you could use it to find the boundaries of that postcode. John has kindley provided hosting for the files at:- http://maps.bigtincan.com/data/postcodes/

Re: [talk-au] street sign location

2009-08-01 Thread Franc Carter
Yep, that's what I assumed - it failed ;-( On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 2:41 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sun, 2 Aug 2009, Franc Carter wrote: Hi, As an FYI, in case anyone gets caught out like I did ;-( I was mapping out near Macquarie Feilds today and came across quite a few

Re: [talk-au] navit

2009-08-01 Thread Franc Carter
Thanks, weekly is very useful anyway. I've just returned from a mapping trip, that used your navit map on my car computer - it was very useful for finding missed streets cheers On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 2:51 PM, John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 28/7/09, Franc Carter

[talk-au] multiple gpses(sp?)

2009-08-10 Thread Franc Carter
Due to a recent carputer project, I know map with two gpses. Looking at the traces in josm they are slightly offset from each other (more than the couple of centimeters that separates there antennas). My inclination is to upload both sets of tracks and use the average of the two as the position

Re: [talk-au] Webpage layout

2009-08-11 Thread Franc Carter
I was out mapping near Appin on Sunday and Google and the map in my consumer gps had large numbers of non existent roads - and getting to Tarago by TomTom was a disaster On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:20 AM, John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.comwrote: --- On Tue, 11/8/09, BlueMM

Re: [talk-au] Marking non-existent roads...

2009-08-11 Thread Franc Carter
I heard an interesting story about the planning of early Sydney roads (I hope it wasn't on this list). The claim was that the roads were planned by someone sitting in London and drawing a straight line between two points . . . . cheers On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:11 PM, b.schulz...@scu.edu.au

[talk-au] Mapping on a phone

2009-08-20 Thread Franc Carter
Hi, My phone is on it's last legs and I'll need a new one soon. Does anybody have a phone that does a good job for mapping. It would be nice to add POIs as I notice them. I don't really need something for the full mapping experience as I have a full setup in the car for that cheers -- Franc

Re: [talk-au] post code boundaries

2009-09-02 Thread Franc Carter
I was just curious - it means that any sort of automated matching is really hard ;-( cheers On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:30 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: Ok, finally found one of the boundaries I moved. http://osm.org/go/u...@rpric6- J.W. Crane Place wasn't a boundary, but is

Re: [talk-au] post code boundaries

2009-09-02 Thread Franc Carter
I had made the assumption based on a small(ish) sample of postcodes in major cities that for the ABS data set, that the boundaries between adjacent postcodes were coincident with boundaries between suburns (sorry for the mouthful). I noted several suburbs that consisted of disjoint areas, so I

Re: [talk-au] post code boundaries

2009-09-02 Thread Franc Carter
Yeah - I think I would come to the same conclusion ;-) cheers On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 10:35 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/9/2 Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com: I was just curious - it means that any sort of automated matching is really hard ;-( There may

Re: [talk-au] bus_stop further details

2009-09-07 Thread Franc Carter
I agree, sounds sensible cheers On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: Gday, For tagging highway=bus_stop 's, in addition to the existing shelter=yes/no, I'm planning to also use bench=yes/no and waste_basket=yes/no, as these features are often installed

Re: [talk-au] Navit

2009-09-27 Thread Franc Carter
Interesting, It puts me on motorways all the time (sometimes it would be nice to have more choice). Have you checked the oneways etc. Have you got a permalink to a problematic road cheers On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 7:26 PM, ed...@billiau.net wrote: this might just be a silly / basic question

[talk-au] not quite 4wd ?

2009-10-04 Thread Franc Carter
Hi, I'm wondering what people are doing for roads that don't need 4wd, but are worse than the standard gravel road - I went on one today and had to to be careful about where I drove cheers -- Franc ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] not quite 4wd ?

2009-10-04 Thread Franc Carter
Thanks John/Liz, I'll use track, and add 4wd_only=recommended cheers On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sun, 4 Oct 2009, Franc Carter wrote: Hi, I'm wondering what people are doing for roads that don't need 4wd, but are worse than the standard gravel

Re: [talk-au] navit files

2009-10-13 Thread Franc Carter
I've been looking over the navit code and have made some minor tweaks to suite me. My first guess is that the issue might be able to be worked around by changing the order that osm2navit looks at properties - e.g making ti look at decide these are roads instead of boundaries. Of course this will

Re: [talk-au] navit files

2009-10-14 Thread Franc Carter
Has anyone got a permalink to an area with this issue, so that I've got something to test with thanks On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: navit files built form osm data don't show a road if there is a reuse of the admin boundary for the road and so navigation

Re: [talk-au] navit files

2009-10-16 Thread Franc Carter
Some experimenting this morning indicates this is fixed in the version I run (svn 2453) cheers On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: navit files built form osm data don't show a road if there is a reuse of the admin boundary for the road and so navigation around

Re: [talk-au] Interesting opportunity

2009-11-14 Thread Franc Carter
NearMap seems to have pretty extensive coverage of WA. I was browsing and found another spec (Tammin) which I am currently filling in cheers On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 3:52 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: For some reason NearMap has imagery in Carnavon, WA which is a spec on the

Re: [talk-au] More NearMap Sydney imagery...

2009-11-27 Thread Franc Carter
My brother patched Merkatoor to work with NearMap, info below My ticket with the patch is here: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2473 The TMS settings I used (with the patch applied) were :- Server Address: www.nearmap.com Path: /maps/nml=Vertx=%2y=%3z=%1 Tile size: 256

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2009-12-22 Thread Franc Carter
One possible approach to this that I believe will solve the more general case of this is the ability to move selected items to a new layer, which you can then hide cheers On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:31 PM, John Smith

[talk-au] railway lines and nearmap

2009-12-25 Thread Franc Carter
Hi, Somethng that struck me recently is that in areas with NearMap coverage there is potential to do a much better job of mapping railway lines - i.e lines, sidings etc could be added. What's people opinions on doing so ? cheers -- Franc ___

Re: [talk-au] Wrong way round the roundabout

2009-12-26 Thread Franc Carter
Yep, it was reversed - I fixed it with josm cheers On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au wrote: I was trying out the latest routable OSM maps, and came across a couple of odd items. One was a roundabout where the Etrex told me to go round it in the wrong direction

Re: [talk-au] Wrong way round the roundabout

2009-12-28 Thread Franc Carter
On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 3:32 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:22 AM, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:50:58 +1100 Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Ross Scanlon wrote: But it's just one more reason to use

[talk-au] roundabouts and footways/cycleways

2009-12-29 Thread Franc Carter
Hi, Just an FYI that I spotted last night - current versions of navit appear to count exits that aren't navigable by the current vehicle (e.g footways when traveling by car) when calculating the exit count. cheers -- Franc ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] roundabouts and footways/cycleways

2009-12-31 Thread Franc Carter
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009, Franc Carter wrote: Hi, Just an FYI that I spotted last night - current versions of navit appear to count exits that aren't navigable by the current vehicle (e.g footways when traveling by car) when

Re: [talk-au] roundabouts and footways/cycleways

2009-12-31 Thread Franc Carter
On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 6:31 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/1/1 Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com: No rush from my perspective - I'm much more interested in the turn restrictions, I am currently building a test VM so that I can narrow down the issue and file a bug report

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

2009-12-31 Thread Franc Carter
I was thinking about this last night as well, as we were trying to navigate the nightmare of Sydney road closures. I suspect the roads that are closed each year (and even more likely each event) will be different. So, I cam to the conclusion that the best way of handling this was as some sort of

[talk-au] greenery between roads etc

2010-01-10 Thread Franc Carter
Hi, What are people doing for the green areas that are between 'other things', e.g in the middle of large roundabouts, between didvided roads with significant space. I can see this as a two part thing - mapping the geography and mapping it's socially defined status. In the geography category the

Re: [talk-au] Mapping interchanges levels or turn restrictions

2010-01-12 Thread Franc Carter
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 3:57 PM, cam_...@fastmail.fm wrote: On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 21:44 +1100, Roy Rankin wrote: With the resolution and newness of Nearmap images Freeway/Motorway interchanges are being mapped in detail rather than schematically. This brings up the issue on how to best do

Re: [talk-au] Tram stops and routes for Melbourne

2010-01-28 Thread Franc Carter
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Andy Botting a...@andybotting.com wrote: Hi there freedom lovers, I've dabbled with a few little tram projects over the last couple of years, so I'm interested in the state of the tram information for Melbourne. I've noticed that the stops in OSM are a

Re: [talk-au] answers to difficult questions

2010-02-19 Thread Franc Carter
Yes - If they're red and just that exact distance from the road then I quess it should be a postbox. I can't work out the telephone boxes in Queanbeyan from the imagery.  so I'm still surveying them. some/lots of the telephone box's in Sydney are very distinctive ;-) Nick -- Franc

[talk-au] Traffic Signals

2010-03-11 Thread Franc Carter
Hi, I use to tag traffic signals at the intersect of the roads, however with NearMap I can see that for complex intersections this does not work as well as I would like, three things I can see to do are:- 1. tag at the intersecttion of roads 2. tag at the location of the signals 3. either (1) or

[talk-au] Floodways ?

2010-04-05 Thread Franc Carter
Hi, What if anything have people been using to map 'floodways', i.e channels that are design to retain water in high rainfall times., e.g http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-34.044061,150.747024z=19t=knmd=20091229 cheers -- Franc ___ Talk-au mailing list

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

2010-06-09 Thread Franc Carter
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:29 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 9 June 2010 09:04, Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com wrote: One of the things I most wished for from my pre gps days was for maps to have turn restrictions marked. Is there a good way to do this without

[talk-au] ABS data and new license

2010-06-19 Thread Franc Carter
Hi, Legal stuff, hurts my brain to the point of making no progress ;-( Does anyone know if the proposed new license is compatible with the ABS license at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/au/ thanks -- Franc ___ Talk-au mailing list

[talk-au] Sydney-Canberra trip

2010-07-14 Thread Franc Carter
Hi, I'm planning a Sydney Canberra trip this weekend and will be able to make at least one direction a full day trip and do some mapping. So, does anyone have a suggestion for an unmapped own that is on the way(ish) ? cheers -- Franc ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] SES Station

2010-07-28 Thread Franc Carter
There's one just up the road from me, but my experience is that these are brick buildings without much distinction. If you like i could take a pic cheers On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:01 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: Does anyone have a suitable picture of a SES station so it can

Re: [talk-au] SES Station

2010-07-28 Thread Franc Carter
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 11:07 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 28 July 2010 23:05, Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com wrote: There's one just up the road from me, but my experience is that these are brick buildings without much distinction. Most of the ones I've seen

Re: [talk-au] Suburb - Bal

2011-01-06 Thread Franc Carter
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:48 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: Sorry for the late reply, I seemed to have missed/overlooked this... On 12 October 2010 07:39, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone know where Melway gets that info from, and if we can get it too? Or do

Re: [talk-au] Suburb - Bal

2011-01-06 Thread Franc Carter
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:47 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 6 January 2011 21:38, Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com wrote: In the absence of better data they still provide a much better idea than guessing a radius around a point, we just need to make sure that we

Re: [talk-au] Suburb - Bal

2011-01-06 Thread Franc Carter
On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 11:23 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 6 January 2011 22:09, Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com wrote: Oops - I mean having ABS instead of nothing - if we get a new ABS then that would better than current ABS - w emay need to work out how to leave

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