Re: [talk-au] Tag physical business location with their PO Box number

2017-10-09 Thread Warin
Both addr:postal and contact:postal have a little use according to taginfo. Neither have a wiki page to explain their use. Given the use of the key contact: I would prefer contact:postal and document its use on the OSM wiki. If you want more input/ideas then contact the tagging group? On

Re: [talk-au] Tag physical business location with their PO Box number

2017-10-09 Thread David Dean
nwastra, Great question! I'm not sure about the best answer though, as it doesn't seem to be an issue that has come up before on the wiki or on http://help.openstreetmap.org. I would suggest you have two options: 1) Ask on http://help.openstreetmap.org, and see if you get anything useful. It

[talk-au] Tag physical business location with their PO Box number

2017-10-09 Thread nwastra
Hi In addition to the tags like contact:phone contact:email addr:housenumber addr:street, etc almost all businesses in Australia that have a physical presence on the ground also have PO Box number as part of their address and use that for their business correspondence. Is contact:pobox=* the

Re: [talk-au] Qld topo map usable?

2017-10-09 Thread Andrew Harvey
Here is a bit more of what they said: DNRM: > Thank you for your email dated 19thMay regarding a waiver from the > Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0) licence for QTopo > information. I am seeking advice from our legal services unit on the > suitability of offering our information in

Re: [talk-au] Qld topo map usable?

2017-10-09 Thread Simon Poole
Hi all I was on the road the last two weeks so didn't see this thread, sorry. (Un-)luckily the situation is completely clear, we need the waiver as provided here https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3PN5zfbzThqeTdWR1l3SzJVcTg/view to be able to use the data in OSM.  Even better: you don't even need

Re: [talk-au] The place Biniguy

2017-10-09 Thread Warin
On 09-Oct-17 06:13 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: On 9 October 2017 at 16:04, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com > wrote: One problem is that 'locality' does not translate well. I'd think that any admin area would have someone resident in the area. So

Re: [talk-au] The place Biniguy

2017-10-09 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On 9 October 2017 at 16:04, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > One problem is that 'locality' does not translate well. > I'd think that any admin area would have someone resident in the area. > So tagging them OSM 'locality' may not be the best? > > OSM says 'hamlet ' is less then 100-200

Re: [talk-au] The place Biniguy

2017-10-09 Thread Warin
On 09-Oct-17 04:33 PM, Andrew Davidson wrote: On 7/10/17 08:59, Warin wrote: Rather inconsistent! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biniguy,_New_South_Wales says the population 2011 was over 600. Yeap, need to be careful when interpreting ABS data. In 2011 Biniguy was a 2500 square