[talk-au] Adopt-an-area

2009-07-12 Thread Liz
While most of OSM contributors are students and poor, some OSM contributors, especially here, are not... I'm making a suggestion for those who are not poor (students can ignore this) that we could pick developing countries with mappers on the ground and provide some assistance - advice on the

Re: [talk-au] Adopt-an-area

2009-07-12 Thread John Smith
--- On Sun, 12/7/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: I'm making a suggestion for those who are not poor (students can ignore this) that we could pick developing countries with mappers on the ground and provide some assistance - advice on the map, help with data loggers and any other sort

[talk-au] validator plugin updates

2009-07-12 Thread John Smith
Pretty much all my patches have been incorporated into the current build, I have come across some extra things that need to be added to the ignore list, such as: cuisine=coffee_shop cuisine=fish_and_chips cuisine=pie Anyone else know of any that should also be listed showing up as warnings?

[talk-au] Orchards

2009-07-12 Thread b . schulz . 10
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

Re: [talk-au] Orchards

2009-07-12 Thread John Smith
--- On Sun, 12/7/09, b.schulz...@scu.edu.au b.schulz...@scu.edu.au wrote: I've read through the discussion about the landuse=vinyard tag (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Vineyard) and the general consensus seems to be that landuse=farm, produce=blah is the best

Re: [talk-au] Adopt-an-area

2009-07-12 Thread Greg Harper
Fiji is my adopted country. I traced a fair bit of the roads to hopefully inspire a local to start naming streets. There is finally at least one active mapper there armed with a GPS and uploading GPX files and naming streets, with another guy naming everything in Suva. I have been mainly mentoring

Re: [talk-au] Adopt-an-area

2009-07-12 Thread Liz
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Greg Harper wrote: Fiji is my adopted country. I traced a fair bit of the roads to hopefully inspire a local to start naming streets. There is finally at least one active mapper there armed with a GPS and uploading GPX files and naming streets, with another guy naming

Re: [talk-au] Orchards

2009-07-12 Thread Liz
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009, b.schulz...@scu.edu.au wrote: I've read through the discussion about the landuse=vinyard tag (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Vineyard) and the general consensus seems to be that landuse=farm, produce=blah is the best approach. Anyway, just opening

[talk-au] Oodnadatta Track

2009-07-12 Thread Russell Lang
It looks like the Oodnadatta Track hasn't been drawn yet. I will be driving along this in September, and visiting a few of the national parks. I can get access to an etrex legend GPS. I'll be taking a Windows netbook with me. Is there someone who wants to work with me, to take the GPS

Re: [talk-au] Oodnadatta Track

2009-07-12 Thread Gordon Smith
Hi Russell, Yes, the track itself has been done. The southern half, Marree to the Coober Pedy turnoff had been done a little while ago; I finished the northern half in June. It's the road to the west of Lake Eyre: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-28.31lon=136.21zoom=8layers=0B00FTF There