Re: [talk-au] Snapping Major regional roads to GPS traces

2021-05-14 Thread John Henderson
On 14/5/21 4:23 pm, Bob Cameron wrote: Just checking if this is an okay thing to do. ie moving a major road so it is centred on GPS traces - assuming there enough data for accuracy (eg bidirectional, multi trace etc) Just a word of caution, to say that using historical GPS data will undo

Re: [talk-au] Hume and Hovel Walking Track in the Bargo SF

2017-02-20 Thread John Henderson
I haven't walked those sections between Blowering Dam and Tumbarumba, so I'm happy to trust your judgement. I'm still hoping to map more one day on foot with GPS. If I do, I'll revisit OSM, as I always do when I got good traces. John On 21/02/17 11:30, Warin wrote: For comparison of the

Re: [talk-au] Hume and Hovel Walking Track in the Bargo SF

2017-02-20 Thread John Henderson
On 20/02/17 20:49, Warin wrote: I'd no be worried by 10 m ... the differences are ~100 metres in places. Might be more in some places too .. have not been measuring .. just concerned at the differences. It could be as simple as running off a map and going a bit off the official course as 'it

Re: [talk-au] Tagging for the router

2016-09-01 Thread John Henderson
On 02/09/16 07:10, Andrew Davidson wrote: Come and visit Canberra; u-turns at traffic lights are permitted. Only where specifically permitted. The "ACT Road Rules", Rule 40 states: "Making a U–turn at an intersection with traffic lights" "A driver must not make a U–turn at an intersection

Re: [talk-au] Melbourne Airport (mapped as both node and way)

2015-10-01 Thread John Henderson
On 01/10/15 20:44, Andy Townsend wrote: I'm no mkgmap expert and even I manage to do it, using the "--add-pois-to-areas" flag. :) Wow, mkgmap has come a long way since the early days. Time for me to have another look and revise my flags :) One of the things it needs to do to be really

Re: [talk-au] Melbourne Airport (mapped as both node and way)

2015-09-30 Thread John Henderson
On 30/09/15 19:31, Andrew Harvey wrote: Currently Melbourne Airport appears in the database twice, once as a node once as a way. Is there any reason why I should not move the tags from the node to the way and delete the node? http://www.openstreetmap.org/node/235151361

Re: [talk-au] Average speed limit cameras

2015-09-17 Thread John Henderson
On 18/09/15 12:26, Andrew Davidson wrote: Currently in NSW point-to-point cameras are only used to check heavy vehicle speeds. That restriction certainly doesn't apply in the ACT. John ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] A way with no tags

2015-09-02 Thread John Henderson
On 02/09/15 13:55, Nev Wedding wrote: I think you should add tags as you think appropriate using satellite imagery and any gps traces in the area and then add a changeset comment to the person who originally entered the data, explaining what you have done ask for a check or further info. The

[talk-au] A way with no tags

2015-09-01 Thread John Henderson
https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/330876380 Unless I'm mistaken, this road seems to have no tags whatsoever. I didn't think such a situation was possible. John ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] possible duplication of streets by new mapper

2015-06-21 Thread John Henderson
Hi sparrowhawk, Done. You may want to revise details on the versions that remain. Regards, John On saturday night I made my first edit, adding a couple of streets that appeared to be missing and naming an unnamed street in Glen Innes NSW. I used Mercaartor (SP) included in ubuntu 14.04.2.

Re: [talk-au] Murchison - Square Kilometer Telescope not showing on Garmin maps

2013-12-30 Thread John Henderson
On 31/12/13 11:17, Warin wrote: Any other thoughts? Use mkgmap to make your own Garmin maps. Edit the mkgmap points file and add an entry for radio telescope. Eg: man_made=radio_telescope [0x6411 resolution 21] John ___ Talk-au mailing

Re: [talk-au] loading JOSM

2013-10-26 Thread John Henderson
On 27/10/13 12:27, Arthur Geeson wrote: Firstly a thank you to the replies I got about the missing bench seats that were not appearing on the map. I have been trying to get JOSM working and it implied that I had a version of java that was too old. I then spend several hours to get a new

Re: [talk-au] Openstreetmap Quality Issues

2013-10-18 Thread John Henderson
On 19/10/13 11:20, Neil Penman wrote: Unfortunately the culture seems to have become that any accurate local mapping should be replaced with unthinking tracing over the top of obsolete satellite imagery. I find that it sometimes helps to add an appropriately-worded note to the nodes or ways

Re: [talk-au] Canberra bus stop numbers

2013-08-26 Thread John Henderson
On 24/08/13 18:43, Chik Foo wrote: I'm fairly active in Canberra. It's time to put those bus stops onto OSM, along with the stop number as a ref=* tag. I'm guessing ACTION will place these stop number information in the google_transit.zip file from

Re: [talk-au] Bicentennial National Trail

2013-04-30 Thread John Henderson
On 30/04/13 14:29, Nick Hocking wrote: The other day I was riding the push bike along some trails and got talking to some horse riders. It turns out the Lady (Jenny) is the ACT coordinator for (and also the secretary of) the Bicentennial National Trail Ltd. Naturally I dropped the term

Re: [talk-au] Cycle routes and MTB routes

2013-02-11 Thread John Henderson
On 12/02/13 12:29, Barker, Nicholas wrote: Hi all I’m after a bit of clarification regarding national cycle route and mountain bike route relations in Australia. I've searched the wiki but still have some questions. I hope someone can point me in the right direction. As many of you will know we

Re: [talk-au] cities changed to towns

2012-12-12 Thread John Henderson
On 12/12/12 23:35, Nathan Van Der Meulen wrote: I completely disagree that population alone should be used to classify a location (unless the populations are seriously reduced). Going by the suggested populations, places like Tenterfield, Glen Innes, Charleville will become villages and

Re: [talk-au] cities changed to towns

2012-12-10 Thread John Henderson
On 11/12/12 09:17, Chris Barham wrote: I really do think Gympie, Maryborough, Warwick and Charters Towers are cities, and should have remained tagged as such. Are there others, in other states, within this changeset that should have stayed as is? I remember the fact that Warwick officially

Re: [talk-au] cities changed to towns

2012-12-10 Thread John Henderson
On 11/12/12 15:02, Michael James wrote: Warwick - April 1936 Thanks - it must have been an anniversary celebration that I remember from the mid 70s. They certainly made a fuss about being a city. John ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] When is a road a cycle route?

2012-12-01 Thread John Henderson
On 02/12/12 09:10, Ben Kelley wrote: Where it gets more complicated is when we start to think what kind of marking we should expect to see on the ground before we say that this is a cycle route in the OSM sense. The same applies when deciding that some street is not really a cycle route. I

Re: [talk-au] traffic lights on dual carriageway intersections

2012-11-03 Thread John Henderson
Steer wrote: I have been trying to find the accepted practise for mapping traffic lights where dual carriageways interest. There is much discussion on various sites, but most seems to be a bit old, and I’m not convinced I’ve found what is the latest accepted practise. I checked some

Re: [talk-au] traffic lights on dual carriageway intersections

2012-11-03 Thread John Henderson
On 04/11/12 07:29, Ian Sergeant wrote: By choosing to place traffic light not on the intersection node, you are failing to represent that this is an intersection of two roads, controlled by traffic signals. Instead you are choosing to represent There is a stop line here and traffic signal and

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide Metro using OpenStreetmap/OpenTripPlanner instead of Google Transit

2012-11-01 Thread John Henderson
On 01/11/12 23:43, Daniel O'Connor wrote: What's the best kind of contribution that would make their use of OSM more relevant to the public? Putting in the footpaths which aren't alongside the road. I mean the important ones which run between buildings to allow pedestrian access between

Re: [talk-au] dirt roads - a summary

2012-10-22 Thread John Henderson
On 23/10/12 15:42, Mark Pulley wrote: Over the last few years I have added many tracks that are definitely drivable with a 2-wheel drive (the vast majority added using the GPS trace from my 2-wheel drive car). 4x4 required should definitely not be implied by highway=track. Seconded, from

Re: [talk-au] dirt roads

2012-10-20 Thread John Henderson
On 21/10/12 12:03, dban...@internode.on.net wrote: lanes=[1; 2] I thing the lanes tag is best not used, unless there's more than two marked lanes on a two-way road, or more than one lane on a one-way road. This is the recommendation in the Australian tagging guidelines:

Re: [talk-au] Lanes tag

2012-10-20 Thread John Henderson
On 21/10/12 13:40, Paul HAYDON wrote: It occurs to me there's at least one other case which warrants tagging the lanes - a two-way road (or section thereof) having only a single lane. I.E. when there are LESS than one in each direction, making passing difficult or unsafe at normal speeds.

Re: [talk-au] dirt roads

2012-10-20 Thread John Henderson
On 21/10/12 13:28, dban...@internode.on.net wrote: OK, I'm interested in what you say about lanes= John (and the rest too!) I use lanes=1 to indicate that a road is generally only wide enough for one car, if one approaches traveling in the other direction, both need to slow a little and pull

Re: [talk-au] Routing islands

2012-10-12 Thread John Henderson
On 12/10/12 20:34, Nick Hocking wrote: http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/debug.html?view=routing_non_eulon=150.82846lat=-33.7503zoom=15opacity=0.98 gets the routing outside europe ( I had the same problem and went looking for this url) That's much better, thanks.

Re: [talk-au] GPS accuracy

2012-09-23 Thread John Henderson
Hi Russell, I've installed and run it in JOSM OK. But I see it operates only for straight lines. I was hoping it'd average GPS traces downloaded from OSM in JOSM around corners and curves. That would be a big ask, I know. John On 24/09/12 01:16, Russell Edwards wrote: On 22/09/12 10:20,

Re: [talk-au] GPS accuracy

2012-09-23 Thread John Henderson
On 24/09/12 06:21, Abhi Beckert wrote: Somebody else (or maybe me) will notice eventually and take the time to replace it with more accurate data. Or, having taken great pains to get it very accurate, somebody will correct it with wildly inaccurate data. Sometimes from imagery with a big

Re: [talk-au] OSM Australia Garmin download update timing and method

2012-09-23 Thread John Henderson
Hi Ian, On 23/09/12 22:27, Steer wrote: I have been updating OSM in my suburb, and am getting the feeling that while the Garmin maps on OSM Australia update every night, the changes I make don’t seem to come through for many days. Can someone please explain the process so I know when to start

Re: [talk-au] Aligning steets

2012-09-21 Thread John Henderson
On 20/09/12 22:41, Ross Scanlon wrote: No, a mini-roundabout can be traversed by ANY vehicle legally and this is not the case in Australia. You can only do so where impracticable for the vehicle. That bit about ANY vehicle is not part of the current definition of a mini_roundabout in OSM. A

Re: [talk-au] Aligning steets

2012-09-20 Thread John Henderson
On 20/09/12 18:37, Stephen Hope wrote: Mini-roundabout doesn't mean you can legally drive over it in any vehicle, it means that you can physically drive over it if you need to. The australian guidelines are wrong, in this case. And yes, I know how they evolved to this state, I've kept up on

Re: [talk-au] GPS accuracy

2012-09-20 Thread John Henderson
On 20/09/12 22:27, Peter Hoban wrote: Discovering the accuracy of a unit is easy. Find a convenient spot near your house and with your GPS record its position. Come back next day (or at least a few hours later) and do it again. Repeat daily until you are sick of it and you will then have a

[talk-au] Rest areas

2012-09-19 Thread John Henderson
Hi all, I want to draw attention to the correct tag for rest areas, namely highway:rest_area http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Drest_area Most I've seen have been tagged as amenity:parking and/or tourism:camp_site. The camp_site tag is wildly misleading, as setting up camp is

Re: [talk-au] Rest areas

2012-09-19 Thread John Henderson
On 20/09/12 08:17, John Smith wrote: The rest area to the south of Gympie allows camping for up to 48 hours or something like that, it's not the only one, but the one I know off the top of my head. I'm aware of a few of those free caravan/camping facilities, sometimes provided by local

Re: [talk-au] import of state borders?

2012-08-24 Thread John Henderson
On 24/08/12 21:24, Nick Hocking wrote: One spot where my GPS traces don't indicate the border is on the extension to Hugh Mackay Crescent. John, does your information of this area (Bicentennial Natiuonal Trail) indicate where the border is? I deleted all my GPS data from that area. Way back

Re: [talk-au] Fixing relations in Canberra

2012-08-14 Thread John Henderson
On 14/08/12 22:27, Nick Hocking wrote: Still until the licence change is complete I'm not about to add any new stuff. JOSM 5356 says License change data redaction is finished, if that's what you mean. John ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] maxspeed - best practice?

2012-08-14 Thread John Henderson
On 15/08/12 02:26, Ben Johnson wrote: I really like this, but I think your source:maxspeed=AU:urban below is a typo. It would be simply maxspeed=AU:urban The problem is that AU:urban isn't numeric. It isn't a speed at all. John ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] maxspeed - best practice?

2012-08-14 Thread John Henderson
On 15/08/12 06:49, Ben Johnson wrote: It's part of a traffic zone proposal. It derives values based on the country and type of zone. It looks like it can be an effective way to define an entire set of tags that should apply consistently across a group of ways (eg a method for all ways in a

Re: [talk-au] Question about relations

2012-07-25 Thread John Henderson
On 25/07/12 16:07, Adrian Plaskitt wrote: Greetings all. I usually confine my mapping to bush tracks and cycle paths as this is what I am most interested in and is often not available from other sources. With the recent devastation of the base map I am remapping some of my local area, and

Re: [talk-au] City routing grid for Australia and the US

2012-07-22 Thread John Henderson
On 22/07/12 09:31, Nick Hocking wrote: Excellent stuff Kai, Canberra-Adelaide will be underway soon. Right after Golf that is :-) Unfortunately, I know what's going to happen - I'll be zipping along the highways and will be sidetracked into fixing up every country town I pass that I have mapped

Re: [talk-au] Redaction progress

2012-07-19 Thread John Henderson
On 19/07/12 19:29, waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: Show of hands - Who's going to 1) stick around and help fix the Australian OSM map I've never had any intention of moving to an alternative. JOSM users shouldn't forget that they can tick Raw GPS data when downloading sections of map to work

Re: [talk-au] The MEM project

2012-07-19 Thread John Henderson
On 19/07/12 20:01, Brett Russell wrote: Ok, it has mountains at 300 metre zoom level along with walking tracks but given that cyclemaps is for a peddle powered adventurer I am not surprise. Ok next step getting mountains to appear at higher levels along with tracks. So thanks John for the

Re: [talk-au] I feel like such a newbie

2012-07-18 Thread John Henderson
On 18/07/12 01:46, SomeoneElse wrote: FWIW recent splitter and mkgmap versions should work OK with pbf files, I think. Thanks for the tip. I'm happy to report that I've updated my splitter and mkgmap, and have created my gmapsupp.img from australia-oceania.osm.pbf without using osmosis at

Re: [talk-au] Introduction Brett Russell (Ent)

2012-07-18 Thread John Henderson
On 18/07/12 18:45, Brett Russell wrote: I have been playing with the IMG file for Tasmania from OSM website, both routable and standard and like what I see but they are optimised for vehicles with foot tracks not showing unto at the 300 metre scale is zoomed to. As do mountains. This means

Re: [talk-au] I feel like such a newbie

2012-07-17 Thread John Henderson
Hi Brett, You've made remarkable progress in a very short time! I'm a Linux user rather than Windows, so I can be of limited help there. I can add to Steve's reply. Firstly, you need to convert that pbf file to an osm one. You use the osmosis program to do that.

Re: [talk-au] Setting up Garmin zoom level

2012-07-16 Thread John Henderson
Hi Brett, On 16/07/12 20:16, Brett Russell wrote: When navigating in the bush you often target big object so it would be great if peaks could appear earlier, say even fifty kilometres as otherwise you are navigating by looking at blades of grass. Also be good if you could set the tracks to

[talk-au] OSM boosted by google paywall for maps

2012-01-10 Thread John Henderson
See article for details: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/01/openstreetmap-google/all/1 John ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Residential Roads

2011-12-14 Thread John Henderson
On 10/12/11 21:11, Sam Couter wrote: Many urban residential roads have speed limits of 60 or maybe 70km/h. I think rural roads with moderately dense residential acre blocks and 80km/h speed limits are still residential, unless they're also the main route to a neighbouring town, in which case

Re: [talk-au] Residential Roads

2011-12-14 Thread John Henderson
On 11/12/11 08:35, Sam Couter wrote: In the ACT 50km/h is the default if there are no signs. I know that's what the road signs say as you enter the ACT. It's also repeated on official ACT government web sites. But it's an over-simplification. The ACT version of the Australian Road Rules

[talk-au] Re-entering data to avoid licensing failure

2011-12-14 Thread John Henderson
As time and opportunity arises, I've started re-entering rural roads where it's clear that the original is scheduled for deletion. I'm deleting the old way completely, and re-entering it from GPS data I'm gathering. JOSM now has a License Check plugin to identify potential deletions, bringing

Re: [talk-au] Re-entering data to avoid licensing failure

2011-12-14 Thread John Henderson
On 15/12/11 02:15, Ross Scanlon wrote: That's fine so long as you are not transferring any tags from the original way. Yes, and that's why I'm trying not to reuse any original nodes. I imagine a lot of corners and other detail is going to disappear from some ways which remain (as I interpret

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

2011-12-03 Thread John Henderson
On 04/12/11 00:09, Steve Bennett wrote: Fwiw, I get Garmin maps from osmaustralia.org. Obviously anyone can custom generate their own Garmin maps and remove the suburb boundaries, but that wasn't really my point. I realize that, but I was trying to help with the specific problem you raised.

Re: [talk-au] A way to go

2011-12-02 Thread John Henderson
On 02/12/11 12:27, Andrew Laughton wrote: I would like a copy of the map before these deletes are made for my GPS, has someone done this before these deletes were done ? I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for, but I've got a copy of

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

2011-12-02 Thread John Henderson
On 03/12/11 10:47, Steve Bennett wrote: To play Devil's Advocate here, does anyone actually want the suburb boundaries retained (or reimported)? To me, they've always been a big pain in the arse - they get in the way when you're trying to map, they show up in various renderings and add noise,

Re: [talk-au] Where did the town go?

2011-12-01 Thread John Henderson
On 01/12/11 19:15, Andrew Harvey wrote: Deleted by user: cc_cleaner in changeset http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/9915617 I found this by looking at this area in the owl viewer: http://matt.dev.openstreetmap.org/owl_viewer/map Thanks Andrew. I wasn't aware of that facility. It

Re: [talk-au] Where did the town go?

2011-12-01 Thread John Henderson
On 01/12/11 22:34, Mark Pulley wrote: User cc-cleaner? I've had a quick look at some of the changesets, and they all seem to be just deleting things. I have a suspicion that the things being deleted are by users who haven't agreed to the new license, but I didn't think we were up to this stage

Re: [talk-au] Where did the town go?

2011-12-01 Thread John Henderson
On 02/12/11 01:11, Grant Slater wrote: I have nothing to do with the cc_cleaner user's deletes/edits. I often watch OSM edits using http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/LiveMapViewer and noticed the deletes of mostly DrLizAU's contributions. I suspected DrLizAU was removing her own contributions,

Re: [talk-au] Where did the town go?

2011-12-01 Thread John Henderson
On 02/12/11 01:11, Grant Slater wrote: I often watch OSM edits using http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/LiveMapViewer and noticed the deletes of mostly DrLizAU's contributions. I suspected DrLizAU was removing her own contributions, but cannot back this up. DrLizAU's ethical standards are

Re: [talk-au] A way to go

2011-12-01 Thread John Henderson
On 02/12/11 09:00, Richard Weait wrote: Deleting tainted data and remapping by local mappers is far superior to waiting until March 31 and running a script. So removing data from decliners and remapping it, and reaching out to those who haven't yet responded is valid and valuable. Thanks for

Re: [talk-au] Censorship

2011-11-03 Thread John Henderson
On 04/11/11 11:09, Steve Coast wrote: I disagree. Moderation is the only way to stop this channel being filled with diatribes and I'm glad that the moderator(s) are being reasonable enough to let the better emails through. To each his own. I look up Liz and John S and value their opinions.

Re: [talk-au] Bicentennial National Trail

2011-10-06 Thread John Henderson
On 06/10/11 16:47, Steve Bennett wrote: It would be very cool to have it fully mapped. As a trail, it has the same issue as some other trails like the Tasmanania Trail, which really work best for horses and are problematic for cyclists (poor surface, obstacles) and hikers (lacking interest,

Re: [talk-au] Bicentennial National Trail

2011-10-06 Thread John Henderson
On 06/10/11 17:17, Steve Bennett wrote: Interesting. Who makes the changes? Do they update any signs? I did the initial mapping and some changes, but I notice that others have contributed updates. Generally, new signage gets added (although old signs on disused sections usually get left

Re: [talk-au] Princes Highway (Relation 538443)

2011-09-07 Thread John Henderson
On 08/09/11 07:58, Ian Sergeant wrote: The issue I have is with using a route relation with a road name to link split parts of a named road, and including roads that don't have a name or alternate name in common with the route, and can't clearly be identified as part of that route by survey.

[talk-au] Mapnik rendering

2011-09-01 Thread John Henderson
highway=ford is not rendering on Mapnik, eg: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-35.50894lon=149.67154zoom=17layers=M I believe it should. I have no idea who to raise this issue with, or how. Before I spend more time looking, does somebody happen to know? John H

Re: [talk-au] Mapnik rendering

2011-09-01 Thread John Henderson
On 02/09/11 10:16, Ian Sergeant wrote: Hi, I'm pretty sure mapnik doesn't render highway=ford on a way. It is probably for the best that it doesn't, IMO. See http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?pid=7510#p7510 and http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Stylesheet for information on what

Re: [talk-au] Mapnik rendering

2011-09-01 Thread John Henderson
On 02/09/11 12:44, Ian Sergeant wrote: So, if I were you, I would either use highway=ford on a node, rather than a way, or use highway=unclassified, ford=yes. Thanks. I'll put it back to that again. John H ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Missing streets in Sydney

2011-08-26 Thread John Henderson
On 26/08/11 13:33, Nick Hocking wrote: I'd really like it if all roads that don't have names yet (in OSM) were just deleted. Then II'd be much more inclined to drive there and collect all the infomation. Having a quick look around, it looks like one of us needs to put some names onto the

Re: [talk-au] Missing streets in Sydney

2011-08-26 Thread John Henderson
On 27/08/11 06:47, Liz wrote: A lot of those streets were placed by a particular person whom I know traced from Google in particular places. I'll stop that accusation there. I haven't been able to put many names to streets in Cowra because I don't travel through there often. If the streets are

Re: [talk-au] label rendering errors at Fernvale Qld

2011-08-25 Thread John Henderson
On 25/08/11 08:36, Chris Barham wrote: Hi, at this link http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-27.4395lon=152.726zoom=14layers=M in Fernvale, there are two label oddities: 1) Bottom left - town label Fernvale appears, but the town is also labelled correctly up to the North East already (where the

Re: [talk-au] Going separate ways

2011-07-10 Thread John Henderson
On 11/07/11 00:02, Richard Fairhurst wrote: So please, let's stop hitting each other over the head with this. That's a very unAustralian attitude. John H ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Active Australian OSM contributors in light of CT/license changes

2011-07-07 Thread John Henderson
On 08/07/11 00:01, 80n wrote: The probability of collisions is quite small in practice. We are able to automatically sync all OSM updates into fosm.org http://fosm.org in near real time. Consequenly fosm.org http://fosm.org already has more content than OSM and the gap will continue to widen.

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-19 Thread John Henderson
On 20/06/11 11:49, James Andrewartha wrote: Ah, that welcoming OSM spirit. Yes, it's easy to forget sometimes that we're all friends here. John H ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission ofderived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

2011-06-15 Thread John Henderson
On 16/06/11 10:21, David Groom wrote: I should have added how impressed I am with the generous attitude that Nearmap has taken in regards to these past contributions, please pass my thanks on to those concerned. I second that. I'm delighted that I can now accept the new terms without

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap badly out of date

2011-05-14 Thread John Henderson
On 14/05/11 16:35, Ben Kelley wrote: IMHO definitely put source=survey if it is. (e.g. from a gps track) It can be difficult to determine this later. E.g. I can see that there is a GPS track log nearby, but did the person use it? This brings up a point which I'd like clarification on. When I

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-dev] To OSM editor authors

2011-04-07 Thread John Henderson
On 08/04/11 06:25, {withheld} wrote: Whilst I agree / commiserate with your basic point (been there; done that; spent the fuel), don't you still have the raw traces from your device? I certainly do, and consider at no point have I ever given up my rights to them. I couldn't see any point in

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-dev] To OSM editor authors

2011-04-07 Thread John Henderson
On 08/04/11 07:30, {withheld} wrote: VNT-2: You didn't upload the traces to OSM, and thus have the capability to legitimately download them again; do you? Worth checking: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/your-OSM-id/traces. Unfortunately no. The few traces I've uploaded have been the pure

[talk-au] Mapping food outlets using OSM in Scientific American

2011-02-28 Thread John Henderson
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=mapping-the-food-desert John H ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Unsuitable for caravans

2011-02-17 Thread John Henderson
On 17/02/11 20:16, {withheld} wrote: Here is a suggestion: Whenever a situation like this comes up (i.e. posted signage which does not fit neatly in a predetermined/official tag case), why not introduce a new tag: signposted: Literal text from sign ...on the basis such a thing cannot

Re: [talk-au] Unsuitable for caravans

2011-02-16 Thread John Henderson
On 17/02/11 12:58, John Smith wrote: Saw a couple of roads signed unsuitable for caravans which seems like council butt covering but I'm not sure how to tag it since it's a sign to discourage rather than to disallow. I've got at least one to tag also. Maybe access:caravan=unsuitable

Re: [talk-au] Unsuitable for caravans

2011-02-16 Thread John Henderson
On 17/02/11 16:12, David Murn wrote: Presumably if its unsuitable for caravans, its also unsuitable for HGV? Maybe simply re-use the HGV access tags already in place? I think they should be kept separate - there'll likely be places where caravans are permitted (encouraged even), but HGVs not

Re: [talk-au] Locata augmenting GPS in GPS hostile areas

2010-11-08 Thread John Henderson
On 08/11/10 20:49, Peter Ross wrote: Their idea is that a museum (say) would buy these locata things and place them throughout their building then people could wander around with their smart phone and get information relevant to where they are, or alternatively firefighters could place the

[talk-au] Direction of flow, rivers and streams

2010-07-27 Thread John Henderson
I note the wiki says that Direction of the way should be downstream. Most streams I look at on OSM have been drawn uphill, and I've been reversing the direction of ones I notice as wrong. Indeed, I find it more natural to draw streams that way myself, and then reverse them. This is just to

Re: [talk-au] Another day, another bridge...

2010-07-11 Thread John Henderson
On 12/07/10 10:33, Simon Biber wrote: I don't think size is the deciding factor... pitch is used in general as an area for a sport (including individual sports like sport=skateboard). In this case it seems that most people have been using leisure=fishing instead of sport=fishing so I guess we

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a church without its own building

2010-07-05 Thread John Henderson
On 05/07/10 17:49, John Smith wrote: There is no church, they're using a school hall for church based activities... church is a significant amenity provided by that building, surely. It is, by all accounts, a place of worship. John H ___

Re: [talk-au] How to tag a church without its own building

2010-07-05 Thread John Henderson
On 05/07/10 19:19, John Smith wrote: At most the church (as an organisation) makes use of a location, what's on the ground is a school facility that may have many such uses... Like a Post Office building also acting as a weather-monitoring station, for example? Just tag the Post Office?

Re: [talk-au] Australian Timezones

2010-06-19 Thread John Henderson
On 20/06/10 11:52, John Smith wrote: Does anyone know why Linderman Island and 2 other islands close to the northern Qld coast get their own time zone? Are you sure that's not just on April 1st? John H ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Hikers on this list?

2010-06-17 Thread John Henderson
On 17/06/10 15:48, John Smith wrote: I knew someone had brought it up in the past, but I'm wondering if we could map it as an area rather than a line? Arguably the best approach would be to mark the wilderness area as such, and perhaps show any tracks stopping at the boundaries. Others may

Re: [talk-au] Hikers on this list?

2010-06-17 Thread John Henderson
On 17/06/10 23:13, Tom Brennan wrote: Not always true. For example, from the Plan of Management for Kanangra Boyd National Park Existing walking tracks on the Kanangra Tops within the wilderness (as indicated on the map on the central pages of this plan) will be retained and managed to

Re: [talk-au] Hikers on this list?

2010-06-16 Thread John Henderson
On 17/06/10 15:27, John Smith wrote: tagging names... AS2156=* isn't descriptive enough, the standard covers several aspects from gradients to publicity, this document was interesting, if nothing else for the publicity section on the bottom of page 5:

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-11 Thread John Henderson
On 11/06/10 19:28, John Smith wrote: Thanks for going to so much effort, I was only expecting 1 or 2 shots of the same stile... No problem - just a pleasant bicycle ride along the BNT for a retiree. John H ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-10 Thread John Henderson
On 10/06/10 15:08, John Smith wrote: As I said, it was just a stub page, feel free to extend it :) I've added In some countries, a horse stile might be more commonly called a cavaletti or a horse hop. John H ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-10 Thread John Henderson
On 10/06/10 10:33, John Smith wrote: On 10 June 2010 06:49, John Hendersonsnow...@gmx.com wrote: I'm more than happy to go with barrier=horse_stile, given that established usage. I'll change the cavalettis I've already tagged, and look at putting a note on the map features page when I take

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread John Henderson
On 09/06/10 16:55, John Smith wrote: On 9 June 2010 10:08, John Hendersonsnow...@gmx.com wrote: barrier=cattle_grid cattle_grid=cavaletti What about: barrier=horse_grid They aren't cattle grids, and they aren't proper cavalettis either from what I've seen, cavalettis seem to be horse

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread John Henderson
On 09/06/10 17:28, John Smith wrote: Just found something, it seems the brits refer to them as horse stiles... like a turnstile but for horses... Rather than a turnstile, more like the existing barrier=stile, which allows a walker to cross a fence using rudimentary stairs/steps to climb it.

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread John Henderson
On 10/06/10 11:15, John Smith wrote: On 10 June 2010 11:10, Jim Croftjim.cr...@gmail.com wrote: there is one near my place... will try and iPhone it this weekend... Thanks, in the mean time I wrote a stub page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dhorse_stile Shouldn't the page

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-08 Thread John Henderson
On 09/06/10 09:22, John Smith wrote: On 9 June 2010 09:07, John Hendersonsnow...@gmx.com wrote: Do I put it on the main international wiki, or just the Australian one? Map features page, but first I'd come up with a better name, even wikipedia couldn't find anything related to the 2 keywords

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-08 Thread John Henderson
On 09/06/10 09:40, John Smith wrote: The name might be correct, but I don't think it is a good choice for a name since it doesn't appear even in wikipedia, then again I can't seem to find anything better, nor any images of permanent installations. Almost completely obscured by cyclists, but

Re: [talk-au] Making a laptop Into a Big-Screen GPS (cont.)

2010-06-03 Thread John Henderson
On 03/06/10 13:31, Eraina and Richard jenkins wrote: 2.At least two people suggested that an eeepc 701 would make a great GPS using Navit. I'd love to find a howto for this because I have one sitting on my desk ... and I could do a simple PS to run it off the car electrics. Mine is the

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