Re: [talk-au] Twitter like emails

2009-10-07 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 18:24:26 +1000 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/10/6 Liz ed...@billiau.net: On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Jeff Price wrote: G'day all, Any chance folks could take some conversations offline, or batch up their 15 emails into a single email?  I presume I'm not

[talk-au] Queensland-NT border 'in wrong place'

2009-09-16 Thread Hugh Barnes
Passing on something that came up in the ABC feed today: A Gold Coast surveying team says it has confirmed suspicions that Queensland has claimed Northern Territory land. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/16/2687218.htm Cheers ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] bus_stop further details

2009-09-11 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:19:22 +1000 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:15 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Unless waste_basket=yes is an approved tag the likelihood of it being searched by anyone not using the tag is almost nil So the

Re: [talk-au] Magpie nesting and swooping areas

2009-09-11 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:44:55 +1000 Ashley Kyd a...@kyd.com.au wrote: As far as I know, it's a problem in different locations from year to year though. That would mean it needs cleaning up each year after the magpie season's over. Assuming they nest reasonably consistently in the same place

[talk-au] Magpie nesting and swooping areas

2009-09-10 Thread Hugh Barnes
Just read in my local rag about a magpie hotspot map: http://city-south-news.whereilive.com.au/news/story/magpie-hotspots/ This occurred to me just recently after being on the receiving end of an air raid. Should probably be areas rather than nodes. It would be a useful feature on the cycle map

Re: [talk-au] bus_stop further details

2009-09-09 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:43:18 +1000 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:43 PM, James Livingston doc...@mac.com wrote: I've been doing that for a while (well, except waste_basket=*), so that's a +1 from me :) Any objections (from anyone) to adding these to

Re: [talk-au] bus_stop further details

2009-09-09 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 21:57:29 +1000 Hugh Barnes list@hughbris.com wrote: I need to research a little more to see where it's at. It builds on this: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/unified_stoparea but I think there is a tidier page somewhere. Bah, I can't

Re: [talk-au] Anyone do wikipedia edits?

2009-09-01 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:01:14 + (GMT) John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 19/8/09, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: I'd like to be smarter, and upload where we know we have good work and not upload where our map still needs a lot of input yet Having a wiki

Re: [talk-au] amenity=shelter

2009-08-08 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:53:41 +1000 Ashley Kyd a...@kyd.com.au wrote: Hi all, I was having a conversation the other day when the purpose of amenity=shelter was brought into question. http://barstool.ash.ms/photos/07082009-shelter.jpg Above is a photo I took while out the other day. It's

Re: [talk-au] LCA2010

2009-07-31 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:34:52 +1000 Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: ok, I've put my name down. it was a 5 minute effort so if they want us we'll be asked and if they needed convincing we will have to try again. I think that means you did it, right? If so, well done! Certainly didn't seem like

Re: [talk-au] LCA2010

2009-07-30 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:58:29 +1000 Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Hugh Barnes wrote: Just thought I'd interrupt the twitter-like pace of this list lately [1] and mention this. As I keep reading in feeds [2], linux.conf.au 2010 is on in Wellington early next year

Re: [talk-au] LCA2010

2009-07-29 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:53:47 +1000 James Livingston doc...@mac.com wrote: On 29/07/2009, at 10:43 PM, Hugh Barnes wrote: I think OSM's profile in the FOSS community is a little dim. There have been quite a few posts on planet.gnome.org in the last couple of months about integrating maps

Re: [talk-au] New Caledonia slips

2009-01-13 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:11:29 +1100 Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Hugh Barnes wrote: I just noticed the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia is marked as just off the Queensland coast on the slippy map. I wish! It's at zoom levels 2 to 6: http

[talk-au] New Caledonia slips

2009-01-12 Thread Hugh Barnes
Greetings I just noticed the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia is marked as just off the Queensland coast on the slippy map. I wish! It's at zoom levels 2 to 6: http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=-20.7lon=165.3zoom=5layers=B000FTF There's a few other weird coastline renderings in that view

Re: [talk-au] Any folks off to LCA09 next week?

2009-01-12 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:00:07 +1100 Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, James Livingston wrote: What would probably be a good idea for next year, would be to get the university grounds and surrounding POIs mapped well - particularly with coffee shops, pubs, restaurants and

Re: [talk-au] National Park Marine Park boundaries

2008-12-18 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:41:59 +1100 Matt White mattwh...@iinet.com.au wrote: I have a sneaking suspicion that National Parks and State Forests are defined by acts of Parliament at the federal and state levels respectively, so the co-ord are probably in Hansard somewhere... Well,

Re: [talk-au] Second Brisbane mapping party - *Possibility of postponement*

2008-11-17 Thread Hugh Barnes
Brisbane mappers Just to let you know, I'm considering postponing the mapping party this coming Wednesday night. The reason is possibility of storms. If there is any chance of something like last night's little tempest, then the event probably won't work well. I am thinking that even if it is

Re: [talk-au] How to extract street names from OSM data

2008-10-19 Thread Hugh Barnes
At 09:21, Sunday 19 October 2008, Paul Zagoridis did write: Can I use the API or some other easy way to extract a subset of OSM data? Specifically I want to get a list of street names in Sydney Metro to double check addresses in a database. This is probably what you want in this case:

Re: [talk-au] Which GPS receiver, Where to buy

2008-10-01 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 09:03:34 Thomas Schröder wrote: Hi *, I am new to the openstreetmap and wonder what would be a good GPS receiver. [The Scytex NaviGPS / Locosys (B)GT-11 looks very nice and small]. Same as the other Thomas S, I have only owned one, a Garmin eTrex H. It was the