Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-27 Thread 4x4falcon
On 27/01/11 14:12, Steve Bennett wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:10 PM, 4x4falconi...@4x4falcon.com wrote: Physical things can change (eg road or railway realignment), non physical don't necessarily change. In the case of boundaries do we definitely know that when a road is realigned does

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-27 Thread {withheld}
On 27/01/11 20:21, 4x4falcon wrote: On 27/01/11 14:12, Steve Bennett wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:10 PM, 4x4falconi...@4x4falcon.com wrote: Physical things can change (eg road or railway realignment), non physical don't necessarily change. In the case of boundaries do we definitely

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-27 Thread 4x4falcon
On 27/01/11 18:06, {withheld} wrote: On 27/01/11 20:21, 4x4falcon wrote: On 27/01/11 14:12, Steve Bennett wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:10 PM, 4x4falconi...@4x4falcon.com wrote: Physical things can change (eg road or railway realignment), non physical don't necessarily change. In the

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-27 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:21 PM, 4x4falcon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: So your mapping for the renderer. I'm mapping for renderers, yes. Why, what are *you* mapping for? Is it colinear or close nodes, without looking at in an editor? If you look in an editor such as josm you will see that its

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-27 Thread Stephen Hope
On 27 January 2011 21:17, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Note to self: add feature to hide and render unselectable all admin=boundary. I used to always do this (using Josm filters) when working in country areas around Qld, the shire boundaries and roads were always interfering with

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-27 Thread 4x4falcon
On 27/01/11 19:17, Steve Bennett wrote: On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 8:21 PM, 4x4falconi...@4x4falcon.com wrote: So your mapping for the renderer. I'm mapping for renderers, yes. Why, what are *you* mapping for? Basic premise of openstreetmap has always been Don't map for the renderers map

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-27 Thread Ian Sergeant
On 27 January 2011 21:06 pheasant.cou...@gmail.com wrote: * ABS2006 boundaries don't follow coastlines when coastlines change. What about when coastlines haven't changed, but when the ABS2006 boundary drifts from the coastline? The answer here, is we don't know whether they intended to follow

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-27 Thread John Smith
On 27 January 2011 22:04, Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote: interfering with each other. Then I started finding problems where sometimes they were connected, sometime they weren't, sometimes the boundary and road way was the same thing (so if you hide them the road vanishes as well). So

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-26 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:46 PM, 4x4falcon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: Don't duplicate nodes or ways and don't join physical to non-physical. Why not, and why not? Not to be rude, but it seems there are a few different opinions around, so I think we give reasons for our preferences. When I say

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-26 Thread 4x4falcon
On 26/01/11 20:00, Steve Bennett wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 8:46 PM, 4x4falconi...@4x4falcon.com wrote: Don't duplicate nodes or ways and don't join physical to non-physical. Why not, and why not? Not to be rude, but it seems there are a few different opinions around, so I think we give

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-26 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:10 PM, 4x4falcon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: Physical things can change (eg road or railway realignment), non physical don't necessarily change.  In the case of boundaries do we definitely know that when a road is realigned does the boundary change with it.  This has

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-24 Thread 4x4falcon
On 24/01/11 07:10, Steve Bennett wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Ian Sergeantinas66+...@gmail.com wrote: Having a separate layer may be appropriate for data we are considering importing to OSM that will never need to be user modified. Data in this category is better combined with OSM

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-23 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: Having a separate layer may be appropriate for data we are considering importing to OSM that will never need to be user modified.  Data in this category is better combined with OSM as a post-processing step. I don't

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-19 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 9:53 PM, Markus_g marku...@bigpond.com wrote: I prefer option 1 for the coastlines to be separate to the Admin boundaries. They're also separate in options 4 and 5. I think we're being overly precious about the quality of the ABS imports. In many cases they're clearly

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-19 Thread Ian Sergeant
On 20 January 2011 09:59, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: I think we're being overly precious about the quality of the ABS imports. In many cases they're clearly meant to follow a geographical feature, but don't do it particularly well when overlaid on the OSM data. That makes it

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 January 2011 10:39, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: I agree, and I'll go one step further. Unless we intend to amend, edit and correct data then don't put it into OSM. So in other words, according to you, we shouldn't be doing any mapping in regional areas as people may not

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-19 Thread Ian Sergeant
On 20 January 2011 11:39, I wrote: I agree, and I'll go one step further. Unless we intend to amend, edit and correct data then don't put it into OSM. Use it as a layer, or whatever, but don't clutter a wiki with static, un-usermodifiable data. On 20 January 2011 11:43, John Smith

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-19 Thread edodd
If you want to just keep the ABS data in OSM as a pure copy of the ABS data, and not modify it even where it is obviously supposed to follow the coastline, but just misses it, then what is the point of having it the ABS data contained within the OSM to begin with? It may as well just be a

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-19 Thread Ian Sergeant
On 20 January 2011 14:58, ed...@billiau.net wrote: if the AS data is melded with other stuff in OSM then we have great difficulty in amending / updating / editing it. you mention another layer but this isn't easily available I can't really see where the difficulty arises. We can simply

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 January 2011 10:54, Ian Sergeant ina...@gmail.com wrote: Was I really that unclear? ..or are you being obtuse? What is it with aussie humour that everyone else doesn't seem to get. You completely missed my point. I was suggesting there is always going to be data that isn't touched,

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 January 2011 13:58, ed...@billiau.net wrote: if the AS data is melded with other stuff in OSM then we have great difficulty in amending / updating / editing it. you mention another layer but this isn't easily available You may find things went the other way also, extra tags were added

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 January 2011 14:50, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: As I said, data that just doesn't happen to be modified, due to being in a remote or rarely accessed area, is obviously distinctly different from data that we import into OSM explicitly with the knowledge and intention that it

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-19 Thread Ian Sergeant
On 20 January 2011 14:50, I wrote: Data that just doesn't happen to be modified, due to being in a remote or rarely accessed area, is obviously distinctly different from data that we import into OSM explicitly with the knowledge and intention that it should not be modified to preserve

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 January 2011 15:15, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: Quite the contrary. To be blunt, I'm basically saying, if it is in OSM, then it is fair game to be corrected, aligned and modified. If someone is suggesting that data imported into OSM be maintained pristine, aligned with an

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-19 Thread Ian Sergeant
On 20 January 2011 15:15, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: if it is in OSM, then it is fair game to be corrected, aligned and modified.   If someone is suggesting that data imported into OSM be maintained pristine, aligned with an external source, then it shouldn't have been imported

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-19 Thread John Smith
On 20 January 2011 15:47, Ian Sergeant inas66+...@gmail.com wrote: In the email that I responded to (and which you in turn responded to me), there was a list of 5 options. Option 1 was to leave admin boundaries unchanged, and not align them (even as separate ways) to the coastline data, i.e

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-19 Thread edodd
As an aside, as large and as remote in parts of Australia are, I'd be surprised if you could put your finger on a way that will never be touched again, either by on the ground survey, or by aerial photography review. If you'd care to name one, I'd be happy to place a wager! Ian. I don´t

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-19 Thread {withheld}
On 20/01/11 17:51, ed...@billiau.net wrote: As an aside, as large and as remote in parts of Australia are, I'd be surprised if you could put your finger on a way that will never be touched again, either by on the ground survey, or by aerial photography review. If you'd care to name one,

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-18 Thread 4x4falcon
On 18/01/11 14:46, Steve Bennett wrote: Would be good to come up with a general policy on administrative boundaries and coastlines. What end result do we want exactly? Here are five options: 1) Administrative boundaries are as imported, and will randomly criss-cross the coastline (current

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-18 Thread Andrew Harvey
I believe this is the same issue that I raised before. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/tagging/2010-September/004719.html My interpretation of John Smith's view was that in some cases the admin boundary is defined by where the river (or in this case coastline) is. In this case they

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-18 Thread Markus_g
-Original Message- From: Steve Bennett [mailto:stevag...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 18 January 2011 5:17 PM To: Markus_g Cc: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline Would be good to come up with a general policy on administrative boundaries and coastlines. What end result

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-17 Thread Steve Bennett
that the best option is to duplicate. Ill have a check on it after he is finished. Markus_g -Original Message- From: Elizabeth Dodd [mailto:ed...@billiau.net] Sent: Saturday, 15 January 2011 6:07 AM To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline On Fri, 14 Jan

[talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-14 Thread Markus_g
Hello, Someone has added coastline to the administration boundaries from the SA border to Port Philip Bay and removed the old coastline. There edit comment was removed malformed Victorian/SE SA coastlines and added 'coastline' tag to administrative boundaries to form accurate coastlines The

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-14 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:46:08 +1030 Markus_g marku...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello, Someone has added coastline to the administration boundaries from the SA border to Port Philip Bay and removed the old coastline. There edit comment was removed malformed Victorian/SE SA coastlines and added

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-14 Thread 4x4falcon
On 15/01/11 03:37, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:46:08 +1030 Markus_gmarku...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello, Someone has added coastline to the administration boundaries from the SA border to Port Philip Bay and removed the old coastline. There edit comment was removed malformed

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-14 Thread Markus_g
@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:46:08 +1030 Markus_g marku...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello, Someone has added coastline to the administration boundaries from the SA border to Port Philip Bay and removed the old coastline. There edit comment was removed

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-14 Thread Markus_g
] Sent: Saturday, 15 January 2011 12:07 PM To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Subject: Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline On 15/01/11 03:37, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:46:08 +1030 Markus_gmarku...@bigpond.com wrote: Hello, Someone has added coastline to the administration