Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap Wiki page Australian Tagging Guidelines has been changed by Aaronsta

I'm a Perth cyclist and I occasionally use www.opencyclemap.org when I'm planning a ride through an unfamiliar area. I think the bicycle routes in question are what's shown there but I'm not 100% sure. Anyway I've found them pretty useful on occasion. I also occasionally use the signage to find

Re: [talk-au] Asia Pacific Map and Chat Hour

Hi Yuchen, sorry for the slow reply. Yes, you can register by email, I'll forward your info to the organisers and they can get in touch with you. Cheers! John On Thu, 19 Aug 2021 at 21:08, Yuchen Pei wrote: > John Bryant writes: > > > Hi all, there is a mapping event coming up ne

[talk-au] Nominations - OSGeo Oceania board election

Hi, I've nominated a few members of the Oceania open geospatial community for election to the OSGeo Oceania board. These people have made outstanding contributions to this community over the last few years, and I believe they are ready to step up and provide the leadership the organisation needs

[talk-au] Fwd: Please sign up as a member of OSGeo Oceania, and vote

Hi, Please see email below re: participation in upcoming OSGeo Oceania elections. OSGeo Oceania is the official Oceania Local Chapter of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, so these elections directly affect the OSM community. Thanks John -- Forwarded message - From: John Bryant

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 160, Issue 14

incorrect. > Oh well perhaps it is just another tool that can sometimes be useful. > Good effort anyway > > > On 21/10/2020 3:12 pm, John Bryant wrote: > > Seems sensible to me, I'd personally be shying away from imports without > more knowledge of how that works. I was

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 160, Issue 14

needed > > > On Wed, Oct 21, 2020 at 5:10 PM John Bryant wrote: > >> Hi Warren, I've split it out into .osm files for each of the WA suburbs >> [1], see attached small example file for King's Park. Does something like >> this work? I can drag and drop them into JOSM, bu

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 160, Issue 14

; for upload, checking as I go. Certainly faster than tracing by hand. > I am not sure when JOSM get chocked by file size, but say Perth or the > South West of WA may be enough of a reduction. > Thanks > > On 21/10/2020 9:20 am, John Bryant wrote: > > Hi Warren, I could pr

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 160, Issue 14

Hi Warren, I could probably help with this. What would be a good size for a chunk? What would be a useful format? On Wed, 21 Oct 2020 at 07:21, Warren wrote: > Hi > > I am in the eastern suburbs of Perth where minimal buildings have been > traced. I would be happy to check trace data in my

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: vine row tagging

On Fri, 16 Oct 2020 at 05:37, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > Resending message to the list :-( > > How do we fix it so that "Reply" goes to the list, not just the last > poster? > I'm not totally full bottle on all the mailman list management variables, but I think it's managed with the

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: vine row tagging

Thanks Ben, That's a good point re: accuracy. But absolute position within a few meters may be OK, if the relative position is maintained. Vine rows are generally visible on imagery and could be mapped that way. It's also not unusual for a vineyard to survey their rows with high accuracy GPS.

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: vine row tagging

-- > From: Graeme Fitzpatrick > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 17:20 > Subject: Re: [talk-au] vine row tagging > To: John Bryant > > > > > > On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 16:34, John Bryant wrote: > >> >> Well, they want to map rows, to use OSM in a way that wi

Re: [talk-au] vine row tagging

mbinations > > > > Cheers Phil > > > > > > *From:* Andrew Harvey > *Sent:* Thursday, 15 October 2020 7:52 PM > *To:* John Bryant > *Cc:* talk-au > *Subject:* Re: [talk-au] vine row tagging > > > > I think it's fine to map these in OSM, like all other thing

Re: [talk-au] vine row tagging

an open platform to enable it. Cheers John On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 15:58, Simon Slater wrote: > On Thursday, 15 October 2020 6:23:36 PM AEDT John Bryant wrote: > > This is part of a viticulture community-driven project to build consensus > > around use & sharing of data, and par

Re: [talk-au] vine row tagging

15 Oct 2020 at 17:46, Adam Steer wrote: > >> Hey John >> >> What are the owners of the properties containing vines saying? Are they >> fully aware that their farm data will be open for everyone to see? >> >> ...and what data/tagging useful to them? >

Re: [talk-au] vine row tagging

Thanks Adam, On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 14:44, Adam Steer wrote: > What are the owners of the properties containing vines saying? Are they > fully aware that their farm data will be open for everyone to see? > This is part of a viticulture community-driven project to build consensus around use &

Re: [talk-au] vine row tagging

sts to > assist direction of workers, etc. > These could be numbered using the addr interpolation scheme and then > individual rows would not need to be mapped but does need a close survey. > > On 15 Oct 2020, at 3:32 pm, Graeme Fitzpatrick > wrote: > > > > > On Th

Re: [talk-au] vine row tagging

Thanks Graeme, I appreciate your response, answers to your questions below. On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 at 13:32, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > Do you need to? > Well, they want to map rows, to use OSM in a way that will be useful to the viticulture community. The idea is to add more detail to vineyards

[talk-au] vine row tagging

Hi all, I'm doing some work with a community agriculture group looking at adding vineyard-related features to OSM, at this point starting with just vine rows. Vineyards themselves (ie. the polygons that contain the rows) are often tagged with landuse=vineyard and crop=grape [1][2]. I can't see

[talk-au] resignation from OSGeo Oceania

Hi folks, just a quick note to let you know that I decided yesterday to resign from the OSGeo Oceania board of directors. I won't be continuing with board business, but I'll continue to contribute as a community member however I can. Looking forward to continuing to work on this awesome community

[talk-au] Bushfire mapathon - kudos

I wasn't able to attend the SSSI National Bushfire Recovery Map-a-thon yesterday, but thanks to the open-access chat, I was able to follow along as an observer as I had time. It sounded like it went well, with a lot of participation, including a large number of people encountering OpenStreetMap

Re: [talk-au] SSSI National Bushfire Recovery Map-a-thon - Sunday 9th Feb

> > *Maybe swap across to LPI imagery & just map all the buildings & other > POI, without worrying about damage? That would be a huge bonus as far as > OSM is concerned, but wouldn't actually do anything at all for the disaster > recovery side of things?* > This seems like a productive idea to

Re: [talk-au] [Pacific] [OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo Oceania - Call For Members

t; > cheers, > > #Ed > > On Tue, 26 Nov 2019 at 16:02, John Bryant wrote: > > > > Hi all, a reminder that this intake closes tonight. If you want to join > OSGeo Oceania as a member, please use the link below. > > > > If you don't get a chance today,

Re: [talk-au] [OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo Oceania - Call For Members

Hi all, a reminder that this intake closes tonight. If you want to join OSGeo Oceania as a member, please use the link below. If you don't get a chance today, we'll be doing another intake in a few months. Cheers! John On Tue., 19 Nov. 2019, 4:32 pm John Bryant, wrote: > Hi all, see be

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo Oceania - Call For Members

Apologies - wrong link. Membership policy is here <https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ckBB9we2WRyH_IzDJvG2yHEgVYtURrdC/edit>. On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 15:45, John Bryant wrote: > Hey Graeme, thanks for the questions! No fees, it's important that we keep > a low barr

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo Oceania - Call For Members

bly not the right word, so my apologies - definitely no offence > intended!) > > & are there any membership fees? > > Thanks > > Graeme > > > On Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 13:34, John Bryant wrote: > >> Hi all, see below for an invitation to join OSGeo Oceania as a m

[talk-au] Fwd: [OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo Oceania - Call For Members

Hi all, see below for an invitation to join OSGeo Oceania as a member. Cheers John -- Forwarded message - From: Edoardo Neerhut Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2019 at 13:17 Subject: [OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo Oceania - Call For Members To: Dear OSGeo Oceania community, This email is an

Re: [talk-au] [OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo Oceania's OSMF Local Chapter Application

Thanks for carrying this forward, Andrew. Looking forward to seeing what a Local Chapter can accomplish in Oceania. On Fri., 23 Aug. 2019, 6:35 am Andrew Harvey, wrote: > I've just submitted this application to OSMF now. > > On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 22:23, Andrew Harvey > wrote: > >> Hi all, >>

Re: [talk-au] Considering future Open Geospatial conferences in Oceania

mail list ;( but I > wanted to share my support for ongoing Oceania events. Let me know what I > can do to help! > > Best, > Alyssa. > On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 11:19, John Bryant wrote: > Hi all, please see the following message below: > > “What should we do about upcoming

Re: [talk-au] [Pacific] Considering future Open Geospatial conferences in Oceania

Oceania: Where? > > * How about Fiji? > > 2021: FOSS4G-International Should we bid for it? > > * Yes > > Best regards, > > Edwin > > On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 21:20, John Bryant wrote: > >> Hi all, please see the following message below: >> >>

[talk-au] Considering future Open Geospatial conferences in Oceania

2019: FOSS4G SotM Oceania Wellington <https://2019.foss4g-oceania.org/>: Has already exceeded sponsorship targets and sold out early bird tickets within a week. - *2020: FOSS4G SotM Oceania: Where?* - *2021: FOSS4G-International Should we bid for it?* We are looking forward

Re: [talk-au] [FOSS4G-Oceania] GHG mitigation and FOSS4G SotM Oceania

Great work Adam! I agree this looks like a worthwhile program. On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 09:45, Edoardo Neerhut wrote: > Fantastic work on this Adam. Parks Victoria would be a wonderful > organisation to fund offset with. Much better than a Cayman Island > registered organisation with plantations

[talk-au] Fwd: FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2019 Travel Grant Program is now live!

Hi all, if you (or someone you know) live in Oceania and require financial assistance to attend FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2019 in Wellington in November, please check out the Travel Grant Program, details below. Please feel free to forward to your networks. Also, if you or your organisation wish to

Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

Great questions... Re: geographic extent, one of the definitions we've been using for other purposes (eg conference travel grants) is the UN geoscheme for Oceania: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme_for_Oceania But I personally agree that we need to reach out and canvass

Re: [talk-au] [OSGeo Oceania] FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2019 - programme outline

Thanks Adam & program committee, looking great! The adjustment to having more talks is interesting, I suppose there may be a bit of a challenge to fill 60 speaking slots out of an audience of 170, but hey, challenges are good! And personally, I'm hopeful we exceed the 170 target, though it will

Re: [talk-au] OSGeo Oceania as a not-for-profit entity? Your feedback, please

ng how big the > pool of active volunteers is and how many would be required for Option 2? > > Cheers, > Sebastian > > > On 18/3/19 8:01 pm, John Bryant wrote: > > Hi all, > > As promised, following on the heels of the successful FOSS4G SotM Oceania > conference

Re: [talk-au] [OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo/OSM talk accepted at C3DIS

Great news Adam, congratulations and thanks for keeping us posted! I'll watch the repo with interest. Let me know if I can help... On Fri, 22 Mar 2019 at 12:25, adam steer wrote: > hey folks > > I pitched a talk about the growing OSGeo Oceania community at the C3DIS > conference

Re: [talk-au] [OSGeo Oceania] OSGeo Oceania as a not-for-profit entity? Your feedback, please

gt; gives you enough of an idea. We will certainly be aiming to increase our > outreach, and get people involved from across the region. > > Any questions, please ask! > > Cheers > John Bryant > on behalf of OSGeo Oceania > > > > _

Re: [talk-au] OSGeo Oceania as a not-for-profit entity? Your feedback, please

ociations, so a CLG may be a bit different, but > shouldn't be hugely more complicated? > > Good luck with it all! > > Thanks > > Graeme > > > On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 at 19:04, John Bryant wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> As promised, following on the heels of the

Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

tijn > > On Mar 4, 2019, at 8:41 PM, John Bryant wrote: > > Hi Graeme, thanks a lot for bringing it up, it's a good opportunity to > share a work-in-progress. > > Yes, there is work going on right now, and apologies for not making it > more widely known... we're

Re: [talk-au] Local Chapter

Hi Graeme, thanks a lot for bringing it up, it's a good opportunity to share a work-in-progress. Yes, there is work going on right now, and apologies for not making it more widely known... we're scrambling a bit to pull together both this and the 2019 conference, trying to get a number of balls

Re: [talk-au] Able to host a tile.osm.org CDN node?

Hi Grant, it would be great to have something up and running here. What kind of org usually provides this elsewhere? Unis, companies, individuals? Is there a technical maintenance component required, or is this just hardware? AWS has a Sydney location, would this be a viable option? Thanks, John

Re: [talk-au] OSMF Local Chapter discussions

Thanks Andrew! I'm hopeful this will be seen as a positive move, taken in the spirit it's intended - to enable and empower the OSM and open source geospatial communities to work together with common purpose. For this new organisation (OSGeo Oceania) to legitimately claim to represent the OSM

[talk-au] FOSS4G SotM Oceania meeting minutes

Hi all, minutes from last Friday's FOSS4G SotM Oceania organising committee meeting are now posted on the wiki page here: https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/FOSS4G-SOTM-Oceania As we're beginning a more frequent meeting cycle in the last 7 weeks before the conference, I'll stop posting these updates to

[talk-au] FOSS4G SotM Oceania meeting minutes

FYI: Minutes from the fortnightly FOSS4G SotM Oceania organising committee meeting (2018-09-14) are available at: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1O3gKVdDckKD1mgWaxf6pgEBDXTWQG9y7 Highlights: - program selection underway, program to be announced soon - Travel Grant Program extended with

[talk-au] FOSS4G SotM Oceania meeting minutes

Hi, Minutes from the fortnightly FOSS4G SotM Oceania organising committee meeting (2018-08-31) are available at: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1b6_fw5QbGJhRWLT8lkmrSNA9awaOSRPz 10 weeks to go until conference time, things are getting real! Please get in touch if you have any questions or wish

[talk-au] FOSS4G SotM Oceania meeting minutes

Hi everyone, Minutes from the fortnightly FOSS4G SotM Oceania committee meeting (2018-08-17) are available at: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1lw2Hqy3s-_YYMQVWCwGTGzmToVivl0fw With only 86 days to go, things are definitely ramping up! Highlights include: - Workshop program is finalised and

[talk-au] FOSS4G SotM Oceania meeting minutes

Hi all, Another edition of the fortnightly meeting minutes from the FOSS4G SotM organising committee is available here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Dptq91Z5ZeygiYLhw-APYk5Y_pnYTjdp Key updates: - Welcome to new committee member Vasiti Soko - OSGeo will likely provide financial support for

[talk-au] FOSS4G SotM Oceania meeting minutes

Hi all, Minutes from last Friday's meeting are posted here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jhdT713VhjADM-4LedlRkW3XsVokt-Vm Significant updates: - Early bird tickets have sold out! - Keynote speakers are announced (see website ) - Community Day proposals are open

Re: [talk-au] Foss4G-SotM Oceania OSM Workshops

Thanks Philip! Just a wee point of clarification - right now we're seeking submissions for the Workshop Day, which is Tuesday 20th November. Community Day will be on the Friday, and we'll also want ideas for that - but the current drive is for Workshop Day, with a deadline of 31 July (less than 2

[talk-au] FOSS4G SotM Oceania meeting minutes

Hi all, Meeting minutes from our 22 June meeting are posted here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qcQusCTkUawjFT0-vOJALLX_IK0gGZSG Some significant updates: - Call for Presentations & Workshops is live here: https://foss4g-oceania.org/present/call-presentations-and-workshops - Early Bird

Re: [talk-au] FOSS4G SotM Oceania

Thanks for highlighting this here Andrew. Any & all submissions about open data, open source spatial, OSM will be welcome! There's scope for talks about the community as well, they don't have to be technical in nature. It's YOUR conference, bring to it what interests you :) We'll be accepting

[talk-au] FOSS4G SotM Oceania meeting minutes

Hi all, Just to keep you posted, minutes from our meeting last week are posted here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1zfGVIgwW8Mdge-cIXO3msKB_ScU-Iv4z By way of a few highlights: - Our Call for Papers will open early next week, check out our website for details on what & how to submit. Spread

[talk-au] FOSS4G-SotM Oceania, meeting minutes 2018-05-25

Hi folks, We're officially less than 6 months away from FOSS4g-SotM Oceania. There's plenty of activity taking place to pull the threads together, and a huge amount of work left to do, but things are starting to come together and it's going to be an exciting, can't-miss event! For those

[talk-au] FOSS4G SotM Oceania meeting minutes, 4 May 2018

Hi all, Minutes for 2018-05-04 meeting can be viewed here . As always, please drop us a line at ad...@foss4g-oceania.org if you want to get in touch. Stay tuned for announcements about call for presentations and registration in

Re: [talk-au] NSW Protected Areas Data Imports

Interesting. How do you import a shapefile like this to OSM? I'm curious because I do a bit of spatial ETL, but I've only ever done manual edits ins OSM. On 26 April 2018 at 15:20, Andrew Harvey wrote: > I've noticed in NSW, protected areas have been very heavily

[talk-au] FOSS4G SotM Oceania update

*** UPDATE **What: FOSS4G-SotM OceaniaWhen: 20-23 November, 2018Where: University of MelbourneHi all,Fortnightly conference committee meeting was held on Friday, please find meeting minutes here .Highlights:- conference website is

[talk-au] FOSS4G SotM Oceania - keynote speakers

Hi all, We're starting to think about inviting keynote speakers for the conference, and we'd love to get your input. We expect to reach a diverse audience, with representation from various countries, professions, genders, cultural backgrounds, and levels of experience, so we need to make sure our

[talk-au] FOSS4G SotM Oceania update

*** UPDATE *** What: *FOSS4G-SotM Oceania* When: *20-23 November, 2018* Where: *University of Melbourne* Hi all We're still 226 days away from Day 1, but there is a diligent crew of people hammering away on pulling this thing together. Things are shaping up beautifully, this is going to be a

[talk-au] FOSS4G-SotM-Oceania survey - conference topics

Hi all, We've put together a very short survey to get your input on what you'd like to see at the upcoming November regional FOSS4G/State of the Map Conference in Melbourne. Would love to get your feedback at this early stage, while we begin considerations on content. Please take 3 minutes and

[talk-au] Fwd: FOSS4G SOTM Oceania update

Hi all, We've begun a fortnightly cadence of committee meetings to make sure we build & maintain some momentum on organising the November conference. We had our last meeting on the 16th, and minutes can be found on the wiki . Highlights include: