[talk-au] Youtube video where OSM used for street name analysis

Hi, I thought list members may be interested in this interesting Youtube video about using OSM data for Aus street name analysis: https://youtu.be/LZG24lpzGXQ Chris___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] place=? An oldie but no past conclusion.

> On 03 May 2016, at 14:22, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > Why judge on the population? > Larger populations get more services - Police, Medical, Education ... they go > hand in hand. > Populations are usually stated - on the entry signs to towns, villages .. and > collected

Re: [talk-au] Proposed Data import - Queensland, Australia: Peaks and Mountains

? Simon Am 03.05.2014 21:00, schrieb Christopher Barham: Hi, I'd like to propose a small data import of ~2500 nodes describing peaks and mountains in Queensland sourced from Qld govt Place names Gazetteer. I've had a look at the data to import, and also the existing OSM nodes, and think

Re: [talk-au] Proposed Data import - Queensland, Australia: Peaks and Mountains

Hi Jason, I agree that makes sense, as the DDS sub-domain has no landing page, and the data.qld.gov.au landing page links through to DDS anyway. I will update the source-ref tag. Chris On 4 May 2014, at 11:23, Jason Ward jasonjwa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Chris, Any thoughts on shifting

Re: [talk-au] Proposed data import. Queensland peaks and mountains

Hi Tim, Thanks for the feedback. Regarding your comments, when you say you compared the nodes to aerial photos and old maps, do you mean these peak/mountain nodes in the proposed import? Or, are you mentioning it anecdotally regarding a comparison of other nodes from past data releases? I

Re: [talk-au] Proposed Data import - Queensland, Australia: Peaks and Mountains

elevation with the dataset in the first place. Simon Am 04.05.2014 09:01, schrieb Christopher Barham: Hi Simon, Ref Elevation data for mountain nodes, Following your question, I realised that the height should be available from the NASA SRTM datasets; so have just tried to add

Re: [talk-au] Proposed Data import - Queensland, Australia: Peaks and Mountains

) doesn't actually have any elevation information? Simon Am 03.05.2014 21:00, schrieb Christopher Barham: Hi, I'd like to propose a small data import of ~2500 nodes describing peaks and mountains in Queensland sourced from Qld govt Place names Gazetteer. I've had a look at the data to import

Re: [talk-au] Automating the replacement of abbreviation of street names

This official abbreviation list may help building any rule set: http://meteor.aihw.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/429840/meteorItemView/long Chris -- cbar...@pobox.com On 2 Mar 2014, at 11:40 am, Jason Ward jasonjwa...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds fine. A quick google indicates the

Re: [talk-au] Incorporating public information into OSM - Legal situation

On 2013-08-20 12:30, Ian Sergeant wrote: On 20 August 2013 18:29, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: Did they confirm with Geoscience that the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia is compatible with ODBL? This is one of the reservations that some of us had with changing to

Re: [talk-au] Bicentennial National Trail

On 2013-04-30 10:02, John Henderson wrote: SNIP I'd be delighted to offer what help I can. /SNIP If it's any use, Qld portion dataset is available and may be on a compatible licence: http://www.nrm.qld.gov.au/services_resources/item_details.php?item_id=34193 The data is hard to link to: in

[talk-au] List search and archive web tool (was Re: Suburbs in Australia)

For list traffic and search try visiting : http://markmail.org/search/?q=city+list%3Aorg.openstreetmap.talk-au On Fri, 21 Dec 2012 02:03:28 +1100, Darren Burt wrote: SNIP Can you provide a direct link or forward information on this? After being told about the maillist, I went looking for

Re: [talk-au] cities changed to towns

On Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:58:26 -0500, Richard Weait wrote: On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Chris Barham wrote: some Australian places have changed from cities to towns on; changeset was: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/14217241 [1] I've emailed to the editor to ask the source for

Re: [talk-au] Back in editing - Tracks and 4wd areas

On 05/01/2012, at 16:59, David Findlay da...@woodypointcomms.com.au wrote: snip How should I mark 4wd trails? Does this help? : http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines Chris ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] ODbL data.gov.au permission granted

On 24/09/2011, at 12:10 AM, Grant Slater wrote: The Licensing Working Group has obtained explicit special permission to incorporate geographic datasets from data.gov.au in the OpenStreetMap project database published under any free and open license, including ODbL SNIP This is great news!

[talk-au] Charleville, Qld survey suggestions sought

Hi, I'm in Charleville, Qld for a couple of days with an iPhone, a garmin oregon GPS and, from tomorrow, a vehicle. The place is pretty much unsurveyed, but the DCDB has been used to add streets so the road geometry is ok. Will do what I can (street names etc) , but I wondered if there is

[talk-au] Very cheap Garmin Vista Hcx - legit?

Hi Is anybody good at spotting eBay scams? This dude has 64 new Garmin Vista HCx's on eBay for about $120 less than comparable offers. Apart from zero feedback and the price, it looks legit to me. Hmm - any thoughts on a possible GPS bargain? (I was thinking it could be ok as Canada is awash