Re: [talk-au] Solar panels on Stucco building

Some additional sources: - The project of the British OSM community: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/UK_2019_Q3_Project:_Solar_Power and a YouTube video about that project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYFBM0Dpdvw=1269s - My Preset for Mapping in Belgium has a preset for solar panels on a

Re: [talk-au] What is a discussion brief?

Herbert, I'm very sorry, but I have no clue what you are trying to achieve with your series of complaints. At least I see them as complaints. it would be helpful to me, that you give a number of real examples where the documentation is lacking or wrong or ... I have the feeling you either do not

Re: [talk-au] topic A: the platform itself

Please allow me to share some experiences of moving to another platform we had in our community. In Belgium we moved from the mailing list to Matrix/Riot . Most active participants in the community made the move, but in the process we lost some people Matrix/Riot is good for short questions, but

Re: [talk-au] Correct way to tag pedestrian crossings with traffic signals

Hallo Thomas, I only use the second method. If I see the first one, I add the nodes for the crossings, tag them as in the second way and remove crossing=traffic_signals from the original node. regards m. On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 1:04 AM Thomas Manson wrote: > > I am trying to determine the

Re: [talk-au] Our work in last two weeks

t just reports that geometry is not logical. > > On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 4:21 PM Marc Gemis wrote: > >> Why does a split make any difference ? Is this a "special" feature of the >> QA-tool you are using ? >> The QA tool should understand that the sharp U-turn is no

Re: [talk-au] Our work in last two weeks

Why does a split make any difference ? Is this a "special" feature of the QA-tool you are using ? The QA tool should understand that the sharp U-turn is not the only route one can follow. m. On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 10:58 AM Nemanja Bračko wrote: > Hi! > > You've been flagged as "Impossible

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: Editing road geometry Australia

On Fri, Jan 11, 2019 at 10:53 PM Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Also using the tag lanes how can the turn restrictions that exist be tagged, > the right 2 must turn right and the left 2 must go straight on ? > A combination of turn:lanes (through|through|right|right) and change:lanes

Re: [talk-au] Use of AIS message as input to OSM

AFAIK, OpenSeaMap is dedicated rendering based on the same OpenStreetMap database as the map of e.g. http://www.openstreetmap.org The OpenSeaMap project also defines certain tags that are only used for navigation on water. See [1] for more info on how it works. So on one hand they are already

[talk-au] Sotm 2018 talk by Microsoft on OSM Australia

Microsoft gave talk on how they use OSM data in their Bing maps product at SOTM 2018 the past weekend. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q602O9VGy3A (starts around minute 32) They stressed a few times how great the Australian community is. The video's will be cut in individual presentations

Re: [talk-au] Mapping houses and addresses in Sydney

Both Andrew and the wiki say that you can only use ESRI World Imagery (aka World Imagery map). You are not allowed to use anything else from Esri. m On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 7:38 AM, wrote: > From: Andrew Harvey > Sent: Monday, 4 June 2018 05:13 > To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org > Subject: Re:

Re: [talk-au] Canberra Contact

I guess this is the same person that started the thread https://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=62047 on the forum. Andrew was so kind to give some feedback there. He invited the person to join this mailing list. regards m On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 11:24 AM, Alex Sims

Re: [talk-au] How do I map left only turning lanes on a motorway?

One could use change:lanes to indicate that one cannot change lanes over during those 200m. Unfortunately no data consumer understands this tag yet. As for the exact position of the split, there are several opinions, as one can see from the comments on this [1] diary entry. AFAIK, Belgium,The

Re: [talk-au] correct mapping of overtaking lanes

possible tags: lanes, lanes:forward, lanes:backward, change:lanes:forward, change:lanes:backward https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Lanes https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:lanes https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/change On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 8:11 AM,

Re: [talk-au] RSL clubs?

> Unfortunately, the club tag still doesn't render, although it does at least > display the name. FYI Nominatim recognizes the club tag, so searching for clubs is possible m ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

[talk-au] Mapper of the Month

Hallo, I'm escada, one of the people behind the "Mapper of the Month" interviews [1]. I've already tried to get an Australian mapper in the series, but the people that I contacted preferred to stay anonymous, which is perfectly fine for me. So, if you want to participate or know someone with an

Re: [talk-au] Mobile phone towers

You could add the operator tag to indicate the owner. regards m On Sun, May 7, 2017 at 7:24 AM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > Hi > > Just putting a nearby newish mobile tower on the map. > > Due we worry about naming who's tower it is? > > Couldn't see anything in the wiki

Re: [talk-au] Changing speed limits

AFAIK a split is handled correctly in JOSM, but you have to be careful when you merge 2 way segments as you advice. Besides making sure that the tags are the same on both segments, you should also check whether the relations are the same. m. > If there is a route relation on the way, I find

[talk-au] help site - Australian topic - unincorporated areas

Hallo on the help site, there is someone looking for help with unincorparated areas in Australia. I referred him to the discussion on the mailing list from December & January, but it might be helpful if someone from Australia could join the discussion. The topic can be found under

Re: [talk-au] Advice on Tags in a Hamlet

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 5:29 AM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > For Australia .. most people think of the 'centre' as the post office, in > Europe it would be the train station. You can add churches for villages where there is no train station. m.

Re: [talk-au] Advice on Tags in a Hamlet

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 1:01 AM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Placing of the hamlet (or other place) names is always fuzzy. Where it is > now renders well on the map, if you place it centrally that may overwrite > other objects - cluttering the map. That looks like mapping for the

Re: [talk-au] Wikidata IDs in OSM

I guess you are aware that one of the recent updates of iD adds the wikidata code when you add the wikipedia page ? The feature is described in https://www.mapbox.com/blog/id-wikidata/ This makes it rather easy to add both tag. It will also search for the wikipedia page when you start typing the

Re: [talk-au] Mount Warren Park Edits

did you try to contact the user via a changeset comment ? m On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 1:14 PM, Peter Watson wrote: > Most of the area of Beenleigh has had the Relations destroyed in this > changeset >

Re: [talk-au] place town subject and Download

with this query, you immediately have a CSV file as output. Use this http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/gdp or copy the query below to http://overpass-turbo.eu/ [out:csv (name, population)][timeout:25]; // gather results ( // query part for: “place=town” node["place"="town"]({{bbox}});

Re: [talk-au] Routing instructions

Did you try the same route on openstreetmap.org ? Can you provide a link to that route ? (of course without providing your home address) regards m On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 3:15 AM, Simon Slater wrote: > G'day all > We had a possible deviation to our standard

Re: [talk-au] LPI Base Map - green areas ?

What about landuse=basin ? [1] Or natural=water, water=reservoir [2] or landuse = reservoir, reservoir_type=water_storage [3] [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dbasin [2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:water [3] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dreservoir

Re: [talk-au] Translink Bus Stops - South East Queensland

Hallo, In Belgium we also did an import of all bus stops during the past months [1]. However, we did notice that several bus stops were in a different location [2], up to 650 meters from where the public transport company thought they were. I don't know the quality of this data set, but it is

[talk-au] (no subject)

Hallo, It seems like some Australian mapper (stweb) [1] is reaching out for help on the forum [2]. One of his complaints is the number of nodes used to trace lakes, beaches, etc. He did several "simplifications" in his last changesets [3]. I don't know how the Australian community thinks about

Re: [talk-au] Railways

According to the legend of http://www.openrailwaymap.org/ , both disused and abandoned railways are a rendered (in different styles) regards m On Thu, Nov 27, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Leon Kernan lker...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I've recently noticed a tenancy for people to tag railways as disused,

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 89, Issue 2 - Railways (Marc Gemis)

the person managing the list at talk-au-ow...@openstreetmap.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of Talk-au digest... Today's Topics: 1. Railways (Leon Kernan) 2. Re: Railways (Marc Gemis