Re: [talk-au] Sydney Wiki page actively discourages mapping pubs

2010-06-27 Thread Tom Brennan
On 27/06/2010 2:10 AM, John Smith wrote: Since I'm not in Sydney I was hessitent to make changes, at least without announcing ahead of time. Fair enough. However, I think it's out of date enough that you could just make the changes anyway. It will probably spur some Sydneysiders to then

Re: [talk-au] Sydney Wiki page actively discourages mapping pubs

2010-06-27 Thread John Smith
On 27 June 2010 17:51, Tom Brennan webs...@ozultimate.com wrote: Fair enough. However, I think it's out of date enough that you could just make the changes anyway. It will probably spur some Sydneysiders to then tidy it up. This thread prompted at least one person to update their info a

Re: [talk-au] Sydney Wiki page actively discourages mapping pubs

2010-06-27 Thread David Murn
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 08:16 +1000, Tom Brennan wrote: On 27/06/2010 8:38 PM, John Smith wrote: It's the Cloudmade layer. Even with a cache refresh it's still months out of You have to force the tiles to be redrawn by viewing the tile and putting /dirty on the end, otherwise you see the

Re: [talk-au] Sydney Wiki page actively discourages mapping pubs

2010-06-27 Thread John Smith
On 28 June 2010 08:16, Tom Brennan webs...@ozultimate.com wrote: Like this ? http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-33.7127lon=150.4666zoom=15layers=000BFTF/dirty I filled in all the streets in this area back in April. As David wrote, you need to view the individual tiles and add dirty to the end:

Re: [talk-au] Sydney Wiki page actively discourages mapping pubs

2010-06-26 Thread Tom Brennan
On 26/06/2010 1:12 PM, John Smith wrote: I think points of interest are one of the best aspects to OSM data and I don't think we should be telling people not to map specific types of POIs just because it might clutter up a rendering of a map, if anything we should use this as an example of where

Re: [talk-au] Sydney Wiki page actively discourages mapping pubs

2010-06-26 Thread John Smith
On 27 June 2010 00:08, Tom Brennan webs...@ozultimate.com wrote: With the high res Nearmap imagery, the places to go are between Penrith and Blacktown. At least half of those suburbs still need their residential streets named. Perhaps we should use it to suggest places for people to go if

Re: [talk-au] Sydney Wiki page actively discourages mapping pubs

2010-06-26 Thread Ben Kelley
I thought about changing that the other day. That text is very old. Sent from my HTC -Original Message- From: John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com Sent: Saturday, 26 June 2010 14:12 To: OSM Australian Talk List talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: [talk-au] Sydney Wiki page actively