There's only so much gain you can get out of a GPS antenna. Basically the best
you can do to cover the whole sky (ie:180 degrees x 360 degrees) is 3dBi
(double the power from a perfect isotropic antenna). Certainly you could design
an antenna which had a reduced coverage, such as a cone, but it
I'm happy to download a few gig of that imagery and post out DVDs to people.
What site has it?
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From: Graeme Wilson wandere...@live.com.au
Date: Monday, September 14, 2009 8:38 am
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Our own satellite imagery?
To: ed...@billiau.net, talk-au OSM
D roads certainly do
exist, however at times the signs are covered over/folded up etc. The
one I know for certain is a Pacific Highway detour which heads West
from Nabiac and goes up to Krambach: http://osm.org/go/uaQzXe_
After that I don't know where it goes. There's a D sign at this
I've had the same issue. When searching for cities or suburbs it will come up
with results such as Newcastle, VIC Newtown, VIC etc.
I just switched on my Legend HCx and did a search for nearest cities. Currently
I'm in Lismore and despite most of the results being in NSW it still came up
with:
Nice work displaying the route distance :). Would it be easy to allow the
repositioning of the start/end route points without clearing them? Being able
to do this would make route debuging much easier as you could zero in on breaks
quicker.
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From: John Smith
The cliff isn't really significant enough to mark in. I could fudge up the
creek from memory, I guess.
- Original Message -
From: John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 1:25 pm
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Marking non-existent roads...
To:
Very nice :).
Is it hard to calculate a route distance and display that?
- Original Message -
From: John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com
Date: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 2:04 am
Subject: Re: [talk-au] Webpage layout
To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org
--- On Mon, 10/8/09,
Under the search box seems like a logical place, even if the Events section
needs to be moved down. Would it be hard to have the search results come up
then once a route is calculated have the results disappear and have the
distance/directions shown there?
I think this link will work, it's an
Yeah, completely understand your stance on it mate. In the end I'd probably
keep using Google anyway because most of my route planning is on unmapped
roads. If they're mapped chances are they're too busy for a cyclist or I've
already been there :p.
Just throwing ideas around as usual.
-
Does the ABS have other boundaries which we can use for this? For example
Sydney currently would just refer to the Sydney LGA, rather than that area
which people would call Greater Sydney.
Basically, do they publish boundaries such as greater sydney the newcastle
region etc?
If they don't
I had a play around wit Inkscape and 5mins later had come up with this:
http://www.overclockers.com.au/pix/st7vm
The link is to a transparent png so it doesn't look right with the dark blue
background of the hosting service but such is life.
I can't post the svg to the list without moderator
Noted, version 2:
http://ocau.com/pix/yg3b2
- Original Message -
From: 80n 80n...@gmail.com
Date: Friday, August 7, 2009 5:53 pm
Subject: Re: [talk-au] posters/banners
To: b.schulz...@scu.edu.au
Cc: talk-au@openstreetmap.org, Matt Amos zerebub...@gmail.com
That looks good, but...
Yeah, the 2 logos kind of each represent an extreme: one is a bit plain and the
other is too distracting.
I might try putting a map rendered as the background, but have it more as a
watermark than an attraction. It's probably time to read some Inkscape
tutorials...
Any other ideas are most
The banner shown on the slide at 21s? The slide called Tsuruga-jo Castle? I
could whip up that with Australia instead of Japan, sure.
- Original Message -
From: John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com
Date: Friday, August 7, 2009 8:24 pm
Subject: Re: [talk-au] posters/banners
To:
What I'll probably do is just upload all versions of the banner somewhere and
let whoever is paying for the print choose and tweak to their liking. That way
all we need to agree upon is the OpenStreetMap name and the magnifying glass
icon.
In the end it's literally a 5min job to make different
Well, what information do you want it to get across? Do we want OSM Australia
to become some form of semi-official name for OSM activities/groups in
Australia? Or do we just want a sign which says There's an OpenStreetMap
mapping party meeting here, this is what you look for to find us in which
Meh, who cares. What we're essentially doing here is forking OSM, just while
still using their database. Why do all the Australian mapping guidelines need
to be global? So long as what we tag ends up being consistent enough that their
rendering works 99% of the time it's not really going to
Would it be useful to change 4wd_only=yes to read:
4wd_only=yes is for roads which are legally mandated to be 4WD only.
I
saw one in Victoria which was signposted as 4WD only and the guy I was
staying with mentioned that it was illegal to take a 2WD car on roads
signposted as 4WD only. Is
I can't find the email with the Wiki link so I'll just post this here:
highway=ford doesn't render
eg: http://maps.bigtincan.com/?zoom=18lat=-28.66798lon=153.41719layers=B0
- Original Message -
From: John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com
Date: Tuesday, August 4, 2009 3:28 pm
Subject: Re:
Hmm, yeah the Wiki entry shows that highway=ford can be a node or a way. Since
fords tend to be in isolated places it's rare that somebody would require a
zoom level which would differentiate between a node or way ford.
From a rendering perspective I'd suggest thick black lines either side of
Well, how about blue highlighting around the way?
I've got a major assignment due tomorrow which is taking the bulk of my time
but once it's done I might have a play with Inkscape and try to come up with a
ford symbol.
- Original Message -
From: John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com
Date:
Never been further West than Parkes, I'm afraid.
I guess this comes down to tagging what exists vs tagging intended use. For
instance there are parts of the Pacific Highway which are 2 lanes but are
tagged as trunk because they're the Pacific Highway and are therefore the most
major road in
Are amenity=bench and amenity=bbq being rendered? I don't think there are many
of these around but if they're rendered hopefully people will bother to tag
them.
- Original Message -
From: John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com
Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009 6:33 pm
Subject: Re: [talk-au]
Oh, and is it easy to increase the font size on the suburb (locality?) names? I
think they appear at z10 but they're *way* too small to read.
Rendering the town names at lower zoom levels looks really good by the way.
- Original Message -
From: John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com
Date:
Just a minor note: The tracks in the Glenrock State Recreation Area are closed
to public vehicles so it's more accurate to mention that link in relation to
bushwalking and MTB riding than 4WD'ing. Oh, and they're more detailed than
accurate. It's a shame that the shortlink links are so cryptic.
Economists who insist on positive growth need to sit through a lecture on it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY (~1 hr lecture in several parts. It
is an excellent introduction to exponential growth in a constrained
environment).
- Original Message -
From: Liz
Greetings List,
In the North Coast region there are a lot of fruit/nut plantations and I think
it would be great to be able to differentiate between farmland which is used to
graze cattle and farmland which is mostly orchards or sugar cane.
I've read through the discussion about the
I'm starting as a maths teacher next year and will certainly be mentioning it
to the geography teachers in passing ;). The hard bit will be relating it to
the syllabus so it's not a waste of time.
Obviously it would be an excellent exercise for geography students to do, but
unless the syllabus
Has the OSM data really been growing fast enough that the zipped files have
increased by more than 10% in 9 days? Or is there another reason for the
increase in file size?
Brent
- Original Message -
From: John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, July 9, 2009 9:33 pm
Subject:
I'm getting the above error message (code 400) when trying to upload my latest
set of edits. Any ideas how to get around it or fix it? JOSM doesn't give any
feedback as to which placeholder ID is causing the error etc.
Googling the error message just gives a page with source code which handles
Ok, was a bit hasty there. Turns out I had a no-right-turn relation with 6
members because each member was added twice. Fixing that (ie, deleting the
repeated members) fixed the problem and the chanset closed :).
- Original Message -
From: b.schulz...@scu.edu.au
Date: Wednesday, July 1,
If you feel like learning how to compile Java code then this page gives some
instructions: http://www.cs.usfca.edu/~parrt/course/601/lectures/java.tools.html
Basically the command javac is the Java compiler. You run it against .java
files to build .class files. The .jar is just a tarball
Apparently NASA and the Japanese space agency has released another elevation
map for the Eath which has 99% coverage using a 98ft grid, so roughly 9x the
resolution of SRTM's ~90m grid.
BBC news have it covered here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8126197.stm
There's also
Well I'm not deeply familiar with the organisation, but I'd say that something
containing sport=equestrian would be the most appropriate. Or at least that
would be the closest thing OSM currently has.
- Original Message -
From: John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com
Date: Monday, June 29,
I'd say that since the name of the organisation is Riding for the Disabled it
should appear on the map in exactly the same form. If it was offensive to it's
customers one would think that the name would have been changed by now.
And if nothing else offensive names are the fault of the company
Greetings Talk-Au,
Tonight I tried to enter tertiary roads based on a GPX track I took on a drive
from Newcastle to Clarence Town some months back and came to a point where one
of the roads follows an ABS suburb boundary.
I'm wondering what the best way to handle this is. The GPX track and the
Lets just think about the end goals of getting MPs involved: adding more data
to the map.
Now basically there seems to be 2 threads of argument about how best to do
this: 1) Through mass import of external datasets and 2) through contributions
by users.
Method 1) is often required for things
Hi there,
The maps produced by the NSW Department of Lands (now NSW Land and Property
Information) calls them a breakwater in their map key. I've also seen the
breakwater term used on warning sings and the like which are posted near said
man-made rocky protrusions.
So, unless a different govt
Hi Ben,
This raises an interesting copyright question. If, from multiple sources (Dept
of Lands, UBD, ask the council/auspost etc) you can show that the ABS boundary
is wrong how do we legally correct it? Without a sign on the ground that states
the change of suburb we don't really have
You ripper!
How long are we looking at for the whole import?
- Original Message -
From: Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com
Date: Sunday, March 1, 2009 1:43 pm
Subject: [talk-au] suburb boundaries import
To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org talk-au@openstreetmap.org
Is now running, please
Hi hi,
Firstly, having suburb boundaries will allow OSM to be even closer to a UBD
replacement :).
Anyway, my vote would go for relations. Yes, they're tricky and a lot of people
don't understand them but given the current OSM data model they're the right
choice. My main argument for
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