Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries - getting close

2009-02-17 Thread Sam Couter
BlueMM bluemm1975-...@yahoo.com wrote: I also like Jack's suggestion on name old_name, plus the is_in tag. +1 for the is_in tag from me, definitely with , Australia appended. My reasons are pretty selfish - My choice of GPS software is Navit and it requires the is_in tag to search for towns.

[talk-au] Suburb boundaries - getting close

2009-02-16 Thread Franc Carter
Ok, it seems my conversion script is now producing sane results so it's time to work out what the final output should look like. The first question that I think we need to answer is, how do we represent the data in OSM, there appears to be 3 options:- 1. Closed ways 2. Relations 3.

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries - getting close

2009-02-16 Thread Darrin Smith
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:09:15 +1100 Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, it seems my conversion script is now producing sane results so it's time to work out what the final output should look like. The first question that I think we need to answer is, how do we represent the data

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries - getting close

2009-02-16 Thread b . schulz . 10
, 2009 10:10 pm Subject: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries - getting close To: OSM Australian Talk List talk-au@openstreetmap.org Ok, it seems my conversion script is now producing sane results so it's time to work out what the final output should look like. The first question that I think we need

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries - getting close

2009-02-16 Thread BlueMM
Franc Carter franc.car...@... writes: Ok, it seems my conversion script is now producing sane results so it's time to work out what the final output should look like. The first question that I think we need to answer is, how do we represent the data in OSM, there appears to be 3 options:-