Re: [talk-au] Alcohol Free Zones

2009-12-29 Thread John Smith
2009/12/30 Craig Feuerherdt craigfeuerhe...@gmail.com: I know Bendigo has an 'alcohol free zone' which would be useful to capture. Initial thoughts are that it is best represented as a relation, made up of the ways (roads etc) that form the outer boundary. Just need to define a new relation

Re: [talk-au] Alcohol Free Zones

2009-12-29 Thread John Smith
2009/12/30 Craig Feuerherdt craigfeuerhe...@gmail.com: The same thing happens here as well John. So you are saying that specific playgrounds etc are AFZ's as well. So in those instances they would be part of a relation (with a single object ie the polygon representing the playground). I think

Re: [talk-au] Wrong way round the roundabout

2009-12-29 Thread John Smith
2009/12/29 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: What about service roads? They're lined with houses, and used primarily by people accessing those homes. Surely highway=service. I marked a couple of ways today that is the primary access to residential buildings as highway=track, because it was

Re: [talk-au] MapOSMatic will now do any where...

2009-12-29 Thread John Smith
2009/12/30 Jim Croft jim.cr...@gmail.com: Canberra didn't have an 'administrative boundary'. Is there such a thing? I sent out a post a week or so ago about using admin_level=7 for metro/regional area boundaries, but yes there is a Canberra admin boundary, but it only covers the suburb of

Re: [talk-au] MapOSMatic will now do any where...

2009-12-29 Thread John Smith
2009/12/30 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: That's pretty impressive stuff. One random map that came up: http://maposmatic.org/rendered//004922_2009-12-28_08-34_GrenobleIsreRhneAlpesFrance.png I used to live right on the eastern edge of that map. Can't help but wonder if Australian cities

Re: [talk-au] Wrong way round the roundabout

2009-12-28 Thread John Smith
2009/12/28 Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au: From a user's point of view, I would expect to see major roads one colour, secondary roads another colour. I wouldn't expect to see a different colour just because a road goes past factories instead of homes. Do unclassified and residential both

Re: [talk-au] Miniature Railways

2009-12-28 Thread John Smith
I thought I had miniature railways rendering but it seems I had a small problem with the SQL in the mapnik config on btc server, but I have miniature railways rendering again now: http://maps.bigtincan.com/?z=17ll=-28.852,153.050layer=B0TT 2 down

Re: [talk-au] amenity=parking in the middle of a field?

2009-12-28 Thread John Smith
2009/12/27 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: Although the bbox does allow a few locations in from south eastern asia, but then you can load the file into JOSM and run searches on it, but it doesn't seem easy to search on the version number of an object, not sure why but I've filed a bug

Re: [talk-au] Wrong way round the roundabout

2009-12-28 Thread John Smith
2009/12/29 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: That depends what you mean by service road. Following the scheme given by 1) and 2) above: If it's named/public, highway=residential. Otherwise, highway=service. I generally tag lane ways as highway=service, as that's what they generally are,

Re: [talk-au] Wrong way round the roundabout

2009-12-28 Thread John Smith
2009/12/29 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: What about service roads? They're lined with houses, and used primarily by people accessing those homes. Surely highway=service. Ask 10 people and you'd probably get 10 different answers... Also, what about weird dinky little strets you sometimes

Re: [talk-au] Wrong way round the roundabout

2009-12-28 Thread John Smith
2009/12/29 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: 1) if it is a named/public road:  * residential if lined primarily with people's homes and used primarily by people accessing those homes  * unclassified otherwise In Australia unclassified usually only applies to rural roads, at least that's what

[talk-au] Miniature Railways

2009-12-27 Thread John Smith
Mapped out another miniature railway today in Casino NSW and it looks like I forgot to make a request for enhancement after I mapped the last one so I filed a bug for this one: http://trac.openstreetmap.org/ticket/2577 It may not really be much of an issue that the track doesn't render except

Re: [talk-au] amenity=parking in the middle of a field?

2009-12-27 Thread John Smith
2009/12/27 Liz ed...@billiau.net: Can anyone program a bot to pick up these rest areas and mark those without a subsequent change (ie new author) as not reviewed?? It's easy to pull data from one of the XAPI servers, eg to get all fuel locations for Australia you do this: wget

Re: [talk-au] Wrong way round the roundabout

2009-12-27 Thread John Smith
2009/12/27 Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com: It would still be nice to have a tool to do it automatically or some way to scale the circle size. What annoys me about the circle tool in JOSM is the fact it doesn't really make nice looking roundabouts, and more often than not I end up merging half

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: Re: [Osmf-talk] Results of OSMF Member Vote

2009-12-27 Thread John Smith
2009/12/28 Liz ed...@billiau.net: -- Forwarded message -- From: Matija Nalis mnalis-openstreetmap-osmfl...@voyager.hr To: Matt Amos m...@asklater.com I would actually expect OSMF membership to be *more* interested in the license change issues than the average OSM contributor;

[talk-au] Custom highway shields

2009-12-27 Thread John Smith
This has been a niggling problem for a number of people including myself for some time now, while it was possible to due this on the fly that method doesn't really scale so I've had to come up with an alternative plan of action and I've been discussing this with a couple others on and off for the

[talk-au] Tourism routes in Australia

2009-12-27 Thread John Smith
I'm aware of the site listing all the highways in Australia, but does anyone know of a site or sites that list some or all of the tourism routes in Australia? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Custom highway shields

2009-12-27 Thread John Smith
2009/12/28 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Custom_Highway_Shields I've now listed the default highway shields for Australia but there may be some ones in other states they may need to be listed different if the shield design differs from NSW/Qld

Re: [talk-au] hiding boundary=administrative by default

2009-12-26 Thread John Smith
2009/12/26 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Hear, hear. Would be good in potlatch too. You don't need my permission to file a bug :P ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] hiding boundary=administrative by default

2009-12-26 Thread John Smith
2009/12/26 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: You don't need my permission to file a bug :P Please stop being an asshole. Your way of expressing yourself on these lists is extremely unpleasant. For almost every post that anyone makes, you make this snide, arrogant, completely uncalled for

Re: [talk-au] railway lines and nearmap

2009-12-26 Thread John Smith
2009/12/26 Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au: If you do this, just add a note/fixme that the information you add isn't accurately surveyed, otherwise they may assume it has been. How do I do this in Potlatch? You can add a new tag manually, there is/was a plus icon to the right hand side of

Re: [talk-au] Cheap data logger

2009-12-26 Thread John Smith
Sorry for bringing up this thread, but just a sort of follow up. The BT-757 is a very excellent GPS unit, has very good accuracy, when compared to other traces and where the roads are current mapped, and I would very quickly recommend this unit to everyone. As pointed out in previous emails, the

Re: [talk-au] hiding boundary=administrative by default

2009-12-26 Thread John Smith
2009/12/27 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: John Smith wrote: Your post was completely useless, why didn't you just post a bug instead of trying to make other people do it? Because some of us are yet to build the confidence for such action? This should be incentive to figure out how, it's

Re: [talk-au] Wrong way round the roundabout

2009-12-26 Thread John Smith
2009/12/27 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: Richard Colless wrote: I was trying out the latest routable OSM maps, and came across a couple of odd items. One was a roundabout where the Etrex told me to go round it in the wrong direction - anti-clockwise. It's the only one that gave me the wrong

Re: [talk-au] hiding boundary=administrative by default

2009-12-26 Thread John Smith
2009/12/27 James Andrewartha tr...@student.uwa.edu.au: 2009/12/27 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: 2009/12/27 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: John Smith wrote: Your post was completely useless, why didn't you just post a bug instead of trying to make other people do it? Because some

Re: [talk-au] hiding boundary=administrative by default

2009-12-26 Thread John Smith
2009/12/27 James Andrewartha tr...@student.uwa.edu.au: than Ubuntu at fixing bugs, the equation still holds: http://glyphobet.net/blog/blurb/1214 I should have seen this before replying, I agree 100%, I don't use potlatch so the cost v benefit for me is too high.

Re: [talk-au] SES Sheds

2009-12-25 Thread John Smith
2009/12/25 ed...@billiau.net: emergency_service=ses That's fine, but wouldn't that mean police/fire amenity=* (and no mention of ambulance on the wiki) should shift to that instead of being amenity=* ? ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] SES Sheds

2009-12-25 Thread John Smith
2009/12/25 Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxi...@gmail.com: On Fri, Dec 25, 2009 at 10:08 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: How are people tagging these, they aren't like other emergency services and you can't contact them by dialing 000 for that matter. On the wiki it is proposed

Re: [talk-au] railway lines and nearmap

2009-12-25 Thread John Smith
2009/12/26 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Hmm, speaking from experience of a ride today, I'd actually prefer less detail, but maybe that's a question for the renderer. Trying to follow a bike path that runs beside, then crosses over, a set of train tracks is really tough - all the lines

Re: [talk-au] railway lines and nearmap

2009-12-25 Thread John Smith
2009/12/26 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: If all you cared about was cycling information, why didn't you use OpenCycleMap tiles? Shut up. And merry christmas, Steve. This is why you should put as much information into the database as possible, you may not care about railway lines, but

Re: [talk-au] railway lines and nearmap

2009-12-25 Thread John Smith
2009/12/26 James Andrewartha tr...@student.uwa.edu.au: Speaking of Transperth, anyone want to hazard a guess as what the license on http://www.transperth.wa.gov.au/TimetablesMaps/SpatialDataAccess/tabid/254/Default.aspx means? I suspect non-exclusive, limited and revocable rights to use,

Re: [talk-au] SES Sheds

2009-12-25 Thread John Smith
2009/12/26 cam_...@fastmail.fm: On Fri, 2009-12-25 at 21:08 +1000, John Smith wrote: How are people tagging these, they aren't like other emergency services and you can't contact them by dialing 000 for that matter. Nothing came up in searching for SES/State Emergency Services... Well apart

Re: [talk-au] SES Sheds

2009-12-25 Thread John Smith
2009/12/26 ed...@billiau.net: At the time I must have got emergency_service from somewhere where else is it used? I'm happy to change when we decide I'm just pointing out it goes against other emergency services, although they should probably be grouped together properly instead of lumped in

Re: [talk-au] SES Sheds

2009-12-25 Thread John Smith
2009/12/26 ed...@billiau.net: If we list more than ourselves then we do appear to be more co-operative, and could save other people reinventing the wheel, a very popular OSM activity Also I don't think it's a uniquely Australian thing to have a lot of different emergency services :)

[talk-au] hiding boundary=administrative by default

2009-12-25 Thread John Smith
I ended up filing a bug about this: https://josm.openstreetmap.de/ticket/4236 ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

[talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2009-12-22 Thread John Smith
While adding postcodes it looks like some people have incorrectly joined boundaries together, to make a single way for a stream/road etc, this has broken suburb boundaries in various areas. I emailed Franc the other day for a copy of osm files converted from the original shape file, but in the

[talk-au] admin_level=7

2009-12-22 Thread John Smith
Doesn't anyone disagree with using admin_level=7 to cover things like metro/regional boundaries, this could include things like the limit of cities, eg metro areas of Sydney/Melbourne, not just the suburbs of Sydney/Melbourne? It could also cover regions like the Sunshine Coast in Qld, the

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2009-12-22 Thread John Smith
2009/12/22 Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com: Draw another way beside it or something but make sure you don't accidently delete them. When making postcode boundaries I'm starting to really agree with you, people using roads especially make a complete mess of things at times and you can't easily

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2009-12-22 Thread John Smith
2009/12/23 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 10:37 PM, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: After that it might be wise to figure out some strategy to monitor changes to admin boundaries to limit the effect of mistakes in future. Easy fix. Don't join other ways to

Re: [talk-au] Tagging fuel locations

2009-12-21 Thread John Smith
2009/12/21 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: 1) Obviously, use what's already documented/in use where possible - e.g. atm=yes is established, so use it instead of amenity:atm=yes See below... 2) If it can only reasonably be interpreted as an amenity, I don't think you need to use an

Re: [talk-au] Tagging fuel locations

2009-12-21 Thread John Smith
I thought about making a proper proposal page, but it seems like a combination of many proposals, so I just made a non-proposal page, outlining how BPs were tagged: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/WikiProject_Australia_Service_Stations I also added additional features listed on the Matila

Re: [talk-au] Stimulus funding locations

2009-12-20 Thread John Smith
Actually after thinking about it some more, unless there is some issues about choices of tags to tag these govt locations there is no point not uploading the data. I've just uploaded all 321 Centrelink locations now. ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] NT data

2009-12-20 Thread John Smith
I've uploaded 989 POIs from this data set to OSM. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Victorian police locations...

2009-12-20 Thread John Smith
328 police POIs have just been uploaded. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

[talk-au] Tagging fuel locations

2009-12-20 Thread John Smith
I've just update a matilda location with information from their website (types of fuel sold etc). Any way, they list services on their station locations like hot food, groceries, dry cleaning etc: http://www.matildafuel.com.au/stationfeatures.asp This is on top of the amenity:*=* tags I used

Re: [talk-au] Victorian police locations...

2009-12-20 Thread John Smith
2009/12/20 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Like I said before, I think making a wiki page and posting these observations there would be more helpful in the long run than simply sending them off into the ether that is this mailing list. The heads up is great, but nothing much is going to

Re: [talk-au] Victorian police locations...

2009-12-20 Thread John Smith
2009/12/21 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Not sure if you have a pathological hatred towards making wiki pages, or how you end up thinking it's less work to send so many messages to this list rather than creating onebut whatever. Don't you know programmers have a dislike of writing

Re: [talk-au] Tagging fuel locations

2009-12-20 Thread John Smith
2009/12/21 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 7:19 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Specifically, though, I'm wondering why use amenity:atm=yes rather than atm=yes? Is there ever some atm that isn't an amenity? It's for when there are several amenities

Re: [talk-au] Victorian police locations...

2009-12-20 Thread John Smith
2009/12/21 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: But all I was suggesting was you dump the same text that you were sending to the email to the wiki instead. That's not dislike of writing documentation, that's wikiphobia. Perhaps you should see how much I've updated the wiki before you start

Re: [talk-au] Tagging fuel locations

2009-12-20 Thread John Smith
2009/12/21 David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au: According to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:atm you should add an individual node for an ATM, rather than tag it onto an existing node (ie. bank, servo or chemist). Assuming you have accurate information for the location, in the case of

Re: [talk-au] Tagging fuel locations

2009-12-20 Thread John Smith
2009/12/21 Liz ed...@billiau.net: On Mon, 21 Dec 2009, David Murn wrote: According to http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:atm you should add an individual node for an ATM, rather than tag it onto an existing node (ie. bank, servo or chemist). for any reference you can find in the wiki, we

Re: [talk-au] Tagging fuel locations

2009-12-20 Thread John Smith
2009/12/21 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Answer: David, you continue to create new nodes for atms, John, stack all the atm information etc on the same node, until someone surveys it. Wasn't planning to do any different, it's hard enough to pin point the location of a lot/most BPs from

Re: [talk-au] Tagging fuel locations

2009-12-20 Thread John Smith
2009/12/21 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: And on a slightly different issue, what source=* values are you planning on? For example, will source:atm=* be set also? It would be bad for someone to remove the fixme=not_reviewed without reviewing ALL details imported, including, for example,

Re: [talk-au] Tagging fuel locations

2009-12-20 Thread John Smith
2009/12/21 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: I would still suggest atm=yes. The amenity: is redundant. And the other amenity:*=* tags? node id='585129906' timestamp='2009-12-10T11:54:04Z' uid='74617' user='JohnSmith' visible='true' version='1' changeset='3340910' lat='-21.120399'

Re: [talk-au] Common or not??

2009-12-20 Thread John Smith
2009/12/21 Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com: may have a long wait.  I suspect some sort of time tagging would be appropriate  (eg Tuesdays, 10:00-12:30) opening_hours=Tu 10:00-12:30 ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Common or not??

2009-12-20 Thread John Smith
2009/12/21 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: information=guidepost? mobile_library_stop=Tu 10:00-12:30 ? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Tagging fuel locations

2009-12-20 Thread John Smith
2009/12/21 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Not sure what's going on there. When I click on the osmfuel.org it does that. They probably don't have virtual hostnames configured properly, you need www in front. Oh, as opposed to amenity=atm? I thought we were talking about amenity:atm=yes v

Re: [talk-au] Common or not??

2009-12-20 Thread John Smith
2009/12/21 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 4:52 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/21 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: information=guidepost? mobile_library_stop=Tu 10:00-12:30 ? That's extremely specific. The chance of any renderer ever

Re: [talk-au] Centrelink locations

2009-12-19 Thread John Smith
You say potato etc... I think you guys are can't see the forest for the trees. If you don't know the name or proper official name of a place name what you can and add a fixme or note saying you are unsure, what's so difficult about that? Also it might be a bowls club, but that generally isn't

Re: [talk-au] Lanes [Was] Roundabouts and routing

2009-12-19 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: And I'm wondering why we're limited to two. It's default assumption, we're not limited to two, we just don't need to be explicit about it. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Centrelink locations

2009-12-19 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 Liz ed...@billiau.net: On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Liz wrote: off to the wiki this big decision goes http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines#Sports_Grounds just underneath http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines#Licensed_Club no-one has

Re: [talk-au] Centrelink locations

2009-12-19 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 Liz ed...@billiau.net: On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, Roy Wallace wrote: It just isn't the actual name of the thing, so I'd prefer to use a more accurate tag. We agree! Use leisure=pitch + sport=bowls. This is off-topic, let's move on. something so important needs to be documented off

Re: [talk-au] licensed clubs

2009-12-19 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net: On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, you wrote: I was at a bowls club tonight, it had a sticker on the door: This is a member of registered clubs NSW in nsw they are legally 'registered clubs i hope you got the name of the club :) Ages ago, was an xmas thing...

Re: [talk-au] Stimulus funding locations

2009-12-19 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: I was thinking of just a list of URLs and descriptions: police stations come from ..., status: ... We'd be better importing the data ourself and telling people to update than do this. People have made similar batches of data available and people

Re: [talk-au] Stimulus funding locations

2009-12-19 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: You and I just don't seem to understand each other. Let me spell it out: How can you mistaken things when I said in other emails I didn't intend to upload the data beacuse I hadn't lived in those states, or not for some years. 1) You import/upload

Re: [talk-au] Stimulus funding locations

2009-12-19 Thread John Smith
2009/12/20 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:45 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Well you can see all sources of available government data on the .au gov's website: http://data.australia.gov.au Yeah but if we have our own list, it becomes

Re: [talk-au] Roundabouts and routing

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
2009/12/18 Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com: Likewise it's not necessary to have multiple nodes on a straight section of road (unless it's really long).  As an example I just came across one straight road that was 150m long. It had 6 nodes on it where it could have been drawn with three. One

Re: [talk-au] Roundabouts and routing

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
2009/12/18 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: In that case, the voting means nothing at all? Weird. It's a left over practise from a time it would have been more appropriate/useful, but since the number of users have increased by several orders of magnitude it has become a much less efficient

Re: [talk-au] Roundabouts and routing

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
2009/12/18 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: I'm guilty of this sometimes. One reason for me comes from the method of tracing: zoom in, mark points along the longest straight stretch you can see, then pan the map, repeat, etc. If you're very zoomed in, you can't tell that the road will be

Re: [talk-au] Roundabouts and routing

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
2009/12/18 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Yeah but then if there are curvy bits – which I want to be maximally zoomed in for – that doesn't work. Personally I'm not seeing a lot of harm in excess nodes. Of all the things you could do wrong, it ranks pretty low in harm. You're right, there

[talk-au] Victorian police locations...

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
There is also Vic police locations as part of the data.australia.gov.au release, it's under cc-by: http://data.australia.gov.au/406 Even has lat/lon, but isn't listed under the geography section... Makes me wonder if there are other similar datasets that aren't listed under geography but have

Re: [talk-au] Victorian police locations...

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
I just took a look at a few in JOSM and they must have used some other datum, if anyone call tell me which one and/or how to convert to WGS84 I'll update the osm file. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Victorian police locations...

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
Or just another case of bad geocoding... ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

[talk-au] Vic hospital locations

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
I've been looking over the data.australia.gov.au site some more, so far there is a kml file for vic hospitals, as a result most of the useful information is in html type formating and seems to include a lot of disclaimers about the information being best effort/use at own risk...

Re: [talk-au] Vic hospital locations

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
I should have included a direct link to the page: http://data.australia.gov.au/404 ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

[talk-au] Stimulus funding locations

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
Another document with lat/lon data, but this one will need to be dealt with manually, contains locations and types of projects money is being spent on, seems to be useful for extracting school and park locations, and locations of rail way crossings/bridges that are being upgraded, among other

[talk-au] Centrelink locations

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
Yet another document with lat/lon that wasn't in the Geography category: http://data.australia.gov.au/80 I've converted this to an osm file: http://map-data.bigtincan.com/data/centrelink.osm.bz2 Wasn't sure how to tag these so came up with the following: node id='-1' action='create'

[talk-au] NT data

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
Department of Planning and Infrastructure (NT) has a bunch of data uploaded to data.australia.gov.au which includes lat/lon: http://data.australia.gov.au/76 This spread sheet includes schools, parks, fire/ambulence stations, libraries, museums and aboriginal communities. Majority of the data is

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-talk] Burning Man (was: revert changesets??)

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 Aun Johnsen li...@gimnechiske.org: For changing roads, I think the future of changesets will allow us to revert changes as well as have a way to retrieve historical data. I guess that a future API version will allow you to see how the world looked in 2009, so that non-existing roads

Re: [talk-au] Vic hospital locations

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:03 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: ... seems to include a lot of disclaimers about the information being best effort/use at own risk... Probably just covering their back - because people looking

Re: [talk-au] Vic hospital locations

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 Liz ed...@billiau.net: On Sat, 19 Dec 2009, John Smith wrote: I should have included a direct link to the page: http://data.australia.gov.au/404 There are other interesting ones South Australian Boat Ramp Locations http://data.australia.gov.au/99 Yea, the boat ramps and boating

Re: [talk-au] Centrelink locations

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 Evan Sebire e...@sebire.org: Why wouldn't the address be entered using the Karlsruhe system? I did it this way because I think we should be verifying the information, not just entering it. Although if people think it should be dealt with differently I'm happy to update the uploaded

Re: [talk-au] Centrelink locations

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Yeah, good work. Should the name be Bairnsdale Centrelink or just Centrelink? Generally places like this are in context when you are there but on maps the context is lost a little so I think it's best to have the suburb as part of the name.

Re: [talk-au] Centrelink locations

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: Steve Bennett wrote: Yeah, good work. Should the name be Bairnsdale Centrelink or just Centrelink? I'm all for putting town/suburb names in as well.  One place where it matters is looking up POIs on GPS units. +1 The BP locations, imported the

Re: [talk-au] Centrelink locations

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: IMHO, the tag name is really not enough. I've often wanted at least three tags: 1) The genuine most official name of the place - in this case, Bairnsdale Centrelink Should I switch the order on the names from 'Centrelink Bairnsdale' to 'Bairnsdale

Re: [talk-au] Centrelink locations

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: But isn't this a problem with the user i.e. the GPS unit software? I.e. shouldn't the suburb be retrieved from an admin boundary if required? IMHO the name=* value should be the name. If it's actually called Bairnsdale Centrelink then fine, but I

Re: [talk-au] Stimulus funding locations

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Good stuff. Worth making a wiki page to collect all this information. Volunteering? :) ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Vic hospital locations

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net: Operating mines had lat and long Mineral processing plants didn't any of these things should be big enough to see on satellite imagery with a rough idea of where to start looking Hmmm I must have missed that dataset...

Re: [talk-au] Roundabouts and routing

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com: The first is easy, is quick to implement and brings the roundabouts into line with the wiki, the second may take some time. As I stated some time ago it might be good to document this on the wiki as to how not to do a roundabout, I wasn't aware and

Re: [talk-au] Roundabouts and routing

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Yes. Although if we're trying to make our map data work with routers we can't fix (eg, Garmin), then we're in an interesting situation. Depends how much control the preprocessing software has over garmin devices, I don't have a garmin so I can't

Re: [talk-au] Roundabouts and routing

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: This is subjective and, as I said, depends on what we are mapping. E.g. IF we are mapping the centrelines of paths of travel in terms of geographic location, clearly _messy is more accurate/complete. But that's a big IF. I'm not saying _messy is

[talk-au] Postcodes...

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
I think I've finally finished NSW, ACT and the NT... 3 down 5 to go... ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Stimulus funding locations

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 12:23 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/12/19 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: Good stuff. Worth making a wiki page to collect all this information. Volunteering? :) If you really want, email me

Re: [talk-au] Lanes [Was] Roundabouts and routing

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com: The right solution would probably include a way to automatically subdivide a road into lanes, but seamlessly allow individually mapped lanes where appropriate. That's the general idea, the implementation is the sticking point :)

Re: [talk-au] Lanes [Was] Roundabouts and routing

2009-12-18 Thread John Smith
2009/12/19 Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com: Which is what the lanes_group relation would do as the relation is attached to the way. As I said, it'd be nice to cascade the tags from ways to lanes, but it seems at this point in time some sort of relation hack is the only feasible solution unless

[talk-au] Local entity

2009-12-17 Thread John Smith
I'm starting to get really frustrated with the general level of apathy with the local chapters working group. I emailed the OSM-F board some time ago to ask permission to use OpenStreetMaps as part of the official name of a local entity that we would most likely become a local chapter in future.

Re: [talk-au] Roundabouts and routing

2009-12-17 Thread John Smith
2009/12/17 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: 2009/12/17 Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com: If they are drawn as in the third example in the wiki then it's not a problem. It becomes a problem when you join an entry and exit flare to the one node, which is incorrect anyway

Re: [talk-au] Local entity

2009-12-17 Thread John Smith
2009/12/17 Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxi...@gmail.com: I don't understand all those ambigious terms - an agreement your problem etc. Are they saying an agreement form/contract does not yet exist and that is why they will not give permission? They are currently trying to come up with local

Re: [talk-au] Local entity

2009-12-17 Thread John Smith
2009/12/17 Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com: I'd just go ahead and use it.  So long as the intent is that we are promoting osm I can not see it becoming a problem. I'm just frustrated by the apathy... ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Local entity

2009-12-17 Thread John Smith
2009/12/17 Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxi...@gmail.com: OpenStreetMap has a lot of name recognition and I'd much rather say I'm a member of OpenStreetMap Australia/Oceania than the Open Cartography Society, the representative/local/supporting organisation of OpenStreetMap in Australia. But as

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