Re: [talk-au] Railway Station Naming Dispute

2011-02-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Alex Lum sierra.os...@gmail.com wrote: In any case, we should be mapping what's on-the-ground anyway, i.e. the station signage (unless this signage is contradictory in which case it may

Re: [talk-au] Railway Station Naming Dispute

2011-02-03 Thread John Berkers
I'm relatively new to OSM, but thought that I would weigh into the debate. I lived in Ferntree Gully for 5 years (84-89), and then travelled through both Upper Ferntree Gully and Ferntree Gully stations for another 10-15 years. As far as I can remember, the signs at the station have always used

Re: [talk-au] Railway Station Naming Dispute

2011-02-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:39 PM, John Berkers be...@ozemail.com.au wrote: I'm relatively new to OSM, but thought that I would weigh into the debate. Hi John, Welcome! And great local background. Thank you. Lastly, the original request was for advice on how to handle the situation with the

Re: [talk-au] waterway=coastline

2011-02-03 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: Peter Watson peter.bmwk7...@gmail.com To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 10:40 AM Subject: [talk-au] waterway=coastline Hi Everyone, I have noticed that all the Gold Coast canals are taged with waterway=coastline. I

Re: [talk-au] waterway=coastline

2011-02-03 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 10:50 AM, David Groom revi...@pacific-rim.net wrote: Since I created many of the canals in this area, and tagged them as waterway Btw - thanks. I did some cycling in that area in November last year (Gold Coast to Surfers, up to the Spit, then up to Lamington NP and back)

Re: [talk-au] Railway Station Naming Dispute

2011-02-03 Thread Stephen Hope
I'd keep both names - name= and alt_name= ( or old_name=). This is better for lookup purposes, as either version would then find this station. And it's not wrong, as it seems the other version was correct at one time. Whether that would be acceptable to the other editor is another problem.

Re: [talk-au] Relicensing per changeset?

2011-02-03 Thread David Murn
On Thu, 2011-02-03 at 10:38 +1000, Stephen Hope wrote: On 3 February 2011 09:28, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: I also wonder how this works, using your example, if the user had entered street names and then another user came along and fixed a spelling mistake in one which they

[talk-au] Fwd: Railway Station Naming Dispute

2011-02-03 Thread Luke Woolley
-- Forwarded message -- From: Luke Woolley lswool...@gmail.com Date: 4 February 2011 13:02 Subject: Re: [talk-au] Railway Station Naming Dispute To: Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com I can tell you now, the other editor has a problem with this. A couple of times I've done

[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] magical road detector to play with

2011-02-03 Thread John Smith
-- Forwarded message -- From: Steve Coast st...@asklater.com Date: 4 February 2011 03:17 Subject: [OSM-talk] magical road detector to play with To: t...@openstreetmap.org

[talk-au] Cool cartography geek stuff

2011-02-03 Thread Jim Croft
http://www.maproomblog.com/2011/01/map_projections_applied_to_photos.php jim -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://about.me/jrc 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.'  - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963)