Re: [talk-au] So, should we request an Oceania Community Channel?

I think a category on the forum is a good idea. It's easier to keep track of older discussions there. On 11/10/22 19:15, Dian Ågesson wrote: Hello, For those that aren't aware, there is currently a big push to move discussions from the mailing list/old forum onto the new community site.

[talk-au] Perth cycle paths

Revisiting a discussion from February about the cycle paths in Perth: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/need-to-reinstate-deleted-pbn-bicycle-routes-perth-western-australia/1873 ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] New OSM Discourse site: community.osm.org

We need to specify who will be category moderators, in the new-category proposal. Who would like to be? Come to think of it, who are the mailing list admins? On 3/5/22 07:49, Andrew Davidson wrote: On Tue, May 3, 2022 at 9:31 AM Sam Wilson wrote: And it sounds like there is a plan

Re: [talk-au] New OSM Discourse site: community.osm.org

On 3/5/22 05:50, Andy Townsend wrote: On 02/05/2022 22:36, Andrew Davidson wrote: How do we get a category we can interact with through email? I haven't used Discource enough to picture how it works. If you enable mailing list mode in your profile, you will get emailed all messages and can

Re: [talk-au] New OSM Discourse site: community.osm.org

part. —Sam On 1/5/22 06:28, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: So how's it going after this first month? Any marked advantages / disadvantages over the existing mailing list? Thanks Graeme On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 at 12:52, Sam Wilson wrote: The new community.openstreetmap.org <ht

[talk-au] Perth mapping meetup May 1st

Another Perth OSM meetup this weekend, this time in Mt Lawley and Highgate: https://osmcal.org/event/1326/ ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] JOSM multipolygon how-to?

This might not be of use, but if you're trying to add a multipolygon for a building with a hole in it then in JOSM it's really easy: 1. Use the building tool to create multiple rectangles over the building, including any courtyard. 2. Select all the building rectangles, with the courtyard

[talk-au] New OSM Discourse site: community.osm.org

The new community.openstreetmap.org site is up and running. It's going to replace the old forum, including the users: Australia subforum. I'm not sure if we should ask for an Australia category to be

Re: [talk-au] Meetup in Perth, Sunday March 20th

41=N <https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=12/-31.9291/115.8241=N> Thanks Graeme On Thu, 10 Mar 2022 at 18:35, Sam Wilson wrote: We're having another meetup next weekend: https://osmcal.org/event/1211/ OSGeo Oceania are providing morning tea (via a microgrant). :-)

[talk-au] Meetup in Perth, Sunday March 20th

We're having another meetup next weekend: https://osmcal.org/event/1211/ OSGeo Oceania are providing morning tea (via a microgrant). :-) —Sam ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap Wiki page Australian Tagging Guidelines has been changed by Aaronsta

I think it depends on when you last updated OsmAnd! It sounds like perhaps you're not seeing the routes that have been deleted, because they're for the most part not the river or freeway ones, but rather a somewhat regularly-spaced network throughout the suburbs. The other thing that occurs

Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap Wiki page Australian Tagging Guidelines has been changed by Aaronsta

Image of the file attached to this post. On 11/2/22 16:16, Sam Wilson wrote: I'm also a Perth cyclist, and I think I pretty much agree with what others have said. These routes should stay on the map if they're signposted on the ground, but other than that I think they're often not particular

Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap Wiki page Australian Tagging Guidelines has been changed by Aaronsta

I'm also a Perth cyclist, and I think I pretty much agree with what others have said. These routes should stay on the map if they're signposted on the ground, but other than that I think they're often not particularly great routes. I must admit that the cyclemap render now (since the removal

[talk-au] Perth mapping meetup

If anyone's in Perth next Sunday (30th January) and feels like meeting up for some mapping: https://osmcal.org/event/1151/___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Discord #oceania channel?

gards Dean Scott https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Scottie0001 <https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Scottie0001> *From:*Phil Wyatt *Sent:* Friday, January 14, 2022 1:03:56 PM *To:* 'Graeme Fitzpatrick' ; 'Sam Wilson'

Re: [talk-au] Discord #oceania channel?

. Cheers, Luke On Fri, 14 Jan 2022 at 11:31, Sam Wilson <mailto:s...@samwilson.id.au>> wrote: The recent posts about bus stops have included a bunch of links to an OSM Discord server <https://discord.gg/openstreetmap>, but I'm a bit confused because it seems that th

[talk-au] Discord #oceania channel?

The recent posts about bus stops have included a bunch of links to an OSM Discord server , but I'm a bit confused because it seems that there's a (locked?) channel called #oceania, which it seems to not want to let me see. (I'm not really a very active Discord

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] INVITATION: 2021 Local Chapters and Communities Congress

That'd be cool! I like the idea of being able to see only newbies in my local area, so would say per-state would be good. That's a fair bit of set-up though (each needs to have a polygon defined). This reminded me that I've got a newbies' feed in my feed reader, e.g. this is for the

[talk-au] FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2021 conference

Hi everyone, The annual FOSS4G SotM Oceania conference is coming up in three weeks, and I (in Perth) seem to have put my hand up to give a little presentation about OSM and am also helping to run an OSM editing workshop on the day after the conference. The former

Re: [talk-au] Basic question

normally expect two of the same type and level to overlap. LGA within State within Country etc On Fri, 8 Oct 2021 at 11:31, Sam Wilson <mailto:s...@samwilson.id.au>> wrote: My understanding is that areas should not overlap only where they are of a similar type. Areas of nat

Re: [talk-au] Basic question

My understanding is that areas should not overlap only where they are of a similar type. Areas of natural=wood and boundary=national_park aren't similar and so it's fine for them to overlap. On 8/10/21 6:25 am, Adam Horan via Talk-au wrote: "Where something like the boundaries of a State Park

Re: [talk-au] FYI Public Records VIC - Map Warper

MapWarper is most terrific. Another instance that might be of use to OSMers is the Wikimedia one, which allows warping of any map uploaded to Wikimedia Commons (i.e. has to be public domain or open licensed, so not 100% compatible with OSM). I've done a few. The

Re: [talk-au] New Bing imagery?

-Original Message- From: Sam Wilson mailto:s...@samwilson.id.au>> Sent: Wednesday, 1 September 2021 22:25 To: OSM-Au mailto:talk-au@openstreetmap.org>> Subject: [talk-au] New Bing imagery? For Perth at any rate, it seems that there is new Bing imagery

[talk-au] New Bing imagery?

For Perth at any rate, it seems that there is new Bing imagery available, taken this year. I might be a bit slow off the mark, but this makes tracing buildings far far better! I'm sure it was crappier last week. ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Sidewalks in Australia

I normally do separate ways, because it's easier to more accurately map the topology. I just pretend I'm pushing a wheelbarrow (or stroller or am using a wheelchair) and wonder what sort of connectivity and data I'd want to be able to navigate. For instance, it might be possible as you say

Re: [talk-au] Funding for OpenStreetMap initiatives

I've also had conversations like that, and have rarely managed to convince people that I'm not peculiar. I remember one bloke found it more believable that I was collecting photos of power poles than that I was contributing to a map! OSM UK has high-viz surveyor vests

Re: [talk-au] Abbreviations in bus stop names (Was Re: Mapping Transport for NSW transit stop numbers)

I'm not sure it applies everywhere, but one reason to keep the original abbreviations is that some transit apps aren't smart enough to search for the unabbreviated names. For example, on the Transperth app (but not, it seems, their website ) searching for

[talk-au] Perth mapping party 2020-11-21

Hi all, As part of FOSS4G SotM Oceania 2020, we're going to hold a mapping party in Perth on Saturday November 21st. https://2020.foss4g-oceania.org/hubs/perth/#osm_mapping_party At the conference the day before I'm going to give a little lightning talk about how to edit OSM (just a general

Re: [talk-au] Men's Shed?

:07 pm, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: On Mon, 7 Oct 2019 at 16:25, Ewen Hill <mailto:ewen.h...@gmail.com>> wrote:  Exceddingly happy with community.shed as proposed On Mon, 7 Oct 2019, 5:15 PM Sam Wilson mailto:s...@samwilson.id.au>> wrote: I think |amenity=communit

Re: [talk-au] Men's Shed?

I think |amenity=community_centre| makes sense, and I think there’s enough in Australia to warrant a specific |community_centre=mens_shed| (or maybe |community_shed|, which Wikipedia suggests as the generic term). On 7/10/19 1:57 pm, Warin wrote: On 07/10/19 16:52, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote:

Re: [talk-au] What data is useful - request for ideas

On 5/8/19 7:44 AM, Phil Wyatt wrote: One thing that is useful in small towns is a cruise around the main and back streets with a camera at 90 degrees (I shoot over the road from the drivers side) to capture shop fronts etc. This can be useful for business points - the local butcher, hardware

Re: [talk-au] User Diaries Spam

Here's some other recent info: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/alexkemp/diary/172800 On 5/7/19 11:18 AM, Sebastian Spiess wrote: Every now and then I have a look at User Diaries. Today I am on page 26 https://www.openstreetmap.org/diary?page=26 and still only SPAM. I guess this was

Re: [talk-au] Proposed mechanical edit - elimination of old-style Wikipedia links in Australia

. For example: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/4850399 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_Park,_Western_Australia On 3/18/19 9:45 AM, Sebastian Spiess wrote: I'd like to hear more about wikidata and how it is used. Maybe during a meet up... Am 2019-03-18 12:40, schrieb Sam Wilson: Sounds good

Re: [talk-au] Proposed mechanical edit - elimination of old-style Wikipedia links in Australia

Sounds good, especially as we're not the guineapig location. :) I've given up adding wikipedia tags of any style, and now just add wikidata. On 3/18/19 3:52 AM, Mateusz Konieczny wrote: Old style wikipedia link is one where language is stored in key, not in value. For example

Re: [talk-au] Naming Bus Stops for interchanges in Sydney

On 1/21/19 4:58 PM, Warin wrote: I have used (misused?) the ref to tag the routes that use that bus stop, then some one has put the stop 'number' in as local_ref. Possibly the stop number is a 'operator_ref' ... whatever, no practical use to the normal person. I actually find the ref super

Re: [talk-au] Naming Bus Stops for interchanges in Sydney

I agree, putting the stand name first makes sense. I've been putting ref=1234 tags on stands (with their ID from the sign), but for some reason haven't ever thought to add the name as well; I shall do so from now on. On 1/21/19 4:26 PM, Michael Collinson wrote: In Sweden, I have seen the "F"

Re: [talk-au] Got an email from Royal Geographical Society of QLD about Boundaries

On 21/06/18 14:13, Warin wrote: Yes to OHM. Note that OHM is undergoing some maintenance at the moment. It'll be back online soon according to https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/historic/2018-June/001168.html ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] MS open maps

On Fri, 22 Dec 2017, at 10:44 AM, Andrew Davidson wrote: > > 1. There's a Australian Slack channel? Oh, there's at least two. Great, > just what we need, more fragmentation. > There is the Maptime Australia one — http://maptimeaustralia.slack.com What is the other? (And yes... don't you know

Re: [talk-au] [Aust-NZ] FOSS4G-ANZ?

Yes, hear hear for less paperwork. :-) Those wordpressians recently sided with Linux Australia, to make this sort of thing easier:https://www.linux.org.au/news/news/linux-australia-signs-mou-wordpress-community-support-facilitate-wordpress-events-australiMaybe there's some like-minded org that

Re: [talk-au] Redacted roads in VIC QLD and WA

There are links to the WA roads datasets on https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Contributors#Western_Australia For both of them, you can load Landgate's WMS service with this URL: https://services.slip.wa.gov.au/public/services/SLIP_Public_Services/Transport/MapServer/WMSServer (although note

Re: [talk-au] OSM QGIS 'workshop' in Perth this weekend

ting from > composer and getting decent results! > > Cheers - Phil (Tasmania) > > -Original Message- > From: Sam Wilson [mailto:s...@samwilson.id.au] > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2017 2:07 PM > To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org > Subject: [talk-au] OSM QGIS 'workshop' in P

[talk-au] OSM QGIS 'workshop' in Perth this weekend

Geogeeks http://geogeeks.org/ was going to run a workshop this weekend about how to use OSM data in QGIS, but it's also Govhack so there are lots of people otherwise engaged. However, we do still have a venue, so there's going to be a small gathering at the state library in Perth to talk about

Re: [talk-au] When is a road, not a road?

I've found that there are quite a few MRWA road centre-lines that bear no relation to where the actual road is. Usually because there are big lumps of granite in the way, or quarries, or other physical reasons to re-route the road. (I guess the road-builders don't tell MRWA that they changed

[talk-au] New data sources available for Western Australian roads

Hi all, Main Roads in WA has released a bunch of data under CC-BY. I've started using some of it. See here: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Sam%20Wilson/diary/40066 So far, it's pretty cool to see that there's really not *all* that much missing. :-) Thanks, Sam.

Re: [talk-au] Osmose in Australia

etc. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dcommercial I'd suggest that it should be landuse=industrial http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:landuse%3Dindustrial Cheers Ross On 17/01/16 08:54, Sam Wilson wrote: This is a very groovy tool. :-) Can anyone help me with this error

Re: [talk-au] Osmose in Australia

This is a very groovy tool. :-) Can anyone help me with this error http://osmose.openstreetmap.fr/en/error/5218289675 ? I thought waterway=boatyard and landuse=commercial would be a reasonable combination. ("Boatyard - a place for constructing, repairing and storing vessels out of the

Re: [talk-au] Osmose in Australia

On 17/01/16 09:09, Warin wrote: wateruse=? :-) Picking nits; As boat yard would be on land ... perhaps boatyard should not be part of the waterway tag! landuse=industrial, industrial=boatyard? Yeah, that makes sense. :) I reckon probably waterway=boatyard should be reserved for the

Re: [talk-au] Bus shelter artwork

You could upload the photos to Wikimedia Commons, then use the various tools (like https://toolserver.org/~para/GeoCommons/ for example) to view the photos. This would pull the location info from Commons and not OSM though. If you geocode the images before upload, and then upload with Commonist,

Re: [talk-au] transperth GTFS

On Wed, February 6, 2013 7:20 am, Andrew Elwell wrote: I've just moved here and discovered that I need to get tagging around shelley / rossmoyne areas of Perth, WA. Welcome to Perth! :-) I saw there was a NSW thread about GTFS feeds last month, but is anyone working on importing the other

Re: [talk-au] Good no name layer?

On Tue, August 21, 2012 9:29 am, Ben Kelley wrote: Does anyone know a good way to find streets with no names? Potlatch no longer has this option, and Cloudmade's noname map is not up to date. Basically I'm trying to find any streets with no names in an area where most streets have names. I

Re: [talk-au] Sydney Metroads Was: Re: M4 motorway in Sydney

On 22 May 2012 23:02, Ian Sergeant ina...@gmail.com wrote: I was half way through rebuilding MR4 when the db went readonly. It was supposed to be followed up with the deletion of the nonCT data, which would have meant extensive deletions here, but that has now been delayed until ? I

Re: [talk-au] Removing ABS data

On Thu, December 29, 2011 9:56 am, Nick Hocking wrote: Sam wrote Is it necessary to remove that data now, before the big change-over date? 1. Is there not still a chance that people who have declined the new licence will change their minds, and accept? 2. Surely there's some magic

Re: [talk-au] I deleted a few locality boundaries...

Yes, I've often wondered the same: if they're officially defined as following particular roads etc. and then those roads move, do the boundaries move also? Also, there seem to be some situations in which boundaries do not actually match the locations of the roads (etc.) that they're

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

Hullo everyone, I keep well out of the whole legal/political side of OSM usually, but I'd just like to ask if I should be doing anything in particular whilst editing these days, before the licence change? I mean, people keep talking about deleting and recreating data that's been added by

Re: [talk-au] [OpenStreetMap] intersections

On Tue, November 29, 2011 1:47 pm, Ben Johnson wrote: However, we need to break these rules in order to put small but important isolated townships on the map, so it's a case where tagging for the renderer is accepted, but it's something that I'm not comfortable with and is a perfect example to

Re: [talk-au] Project of the Week / Month

On 2010-11-04 10:26 PM, David Murn wrote: With aerial imagery, its quite possible to accurately tag the exact location of the light itself, and even a lot of street lamps have unique ref codes which could be tagged also. Id be quite happy to start tagging street lamps if there was an agreed

[talk-au] Big WA trace #5

Just a mention that I've uploaded another trace,19773 points: http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Sam%20Wilson/traces/858568 Should I perhaps not bother announcing these? I just thought it might spur someone or other on to help me trace! :-) But I don't want to clutter the list... Thanks,

[talk-au] Big WA trace #4

Hi, I don't know how many people on this list are on talk (where I mentioned this project), but I've just started uploading big traces from regional WA. They're fairly sparse (30s sampling rate) but cover a lot of ground. I thought I'd post here when I upload a new one, in case anyone's

Re: [talk-au] Overmapping?

On 25/2/10 3:59 AM, Liz wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Roy Wallace wrote: This, on the other hand, may well be true. But IMHO this is NOT a reason to limit what gets entered into the OSM database, but simply to *pre-process* the OSM data (filtering out unwanted details as desired) prior to

Re: [talk-au] Overmapping?

On 25/2/10 6:05 PM, Richard Colless wrote: in to the 50m level. The attached file shows what it looks like on my Etrex. The footways are much smaller than the roads, and don't really add to the clutter. In fact, when I zoomed in to 8m the display became less cluttered. So I guess we can

Re: [talk-au] Overmapping?

On 25/2/10 7:07 PM, John Smith wrote: Mapped, or shown on maps? Ah yes, right: shown on /that/ map. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au