Re: [talk-au] Webpage layout

2009-08-17 Thread BlueMM
John Smith-129 wrote: --- On Tue, 11/8/09, BlueMM bluemm1975-...@yahoo.com wrote: I've found Google Maps directions in Australia to be very good in the past, it seems to pick the best route the majority of the time. At times I've been routed along no through roads, other times google

Re: [talk-au] Webpage layout

2009-08-17 Thread BlueMM
John Smith-129 wrote: --- On Tue, 11/8/09, BlueMM bluemm1975-...@yahoo.com wrote: I've found Google Maps directions in Australia to be very good in the past, it seems to pick the best route the majority of the time. At times I've been routed along no through roads, other times google

Re: [talk-au] I've been trying to fix the highway shields and came across this....

2009-08-17 Thread BlueMM
John Smith-129 wrote: --- On Mon, 17/8/09, BlueMM bluemm1975-...@yahoo.com wrote: A few questions: 1. I presume the addr:country=Australia is manditory for this to work, but :state optional? I could imagine only needing state for state specific sheilds (ie. nationally consistent ones

Re: [talk-au] I've been trying to fix the highway shields and came across this....

2009-08-17 Thread John Smith
--- On Mon, 17/8/09, BlueMM bluemm1975-...@yahoo.com wrote: But my point was if they *are* consistent (same shield design), why specify state? Consistent to what? Some states have gone to a alphanumeric system, some use the old NH shields and those with the alphanumeric system have

Re: [talk-au] List of potential datasources

2009-08-17 Thread James Livingston
On 17/08/2009, at 11:07 AM, John Smith wrote: --- On Mon, 17/8/09, Ben Kelley ben.kel...@gmail.com wrote: I guess the problems with this would be: * Duplication with public toilets that are already marked Only import toilets where there is no node=amenity within 250-500m, throw them into

[talk-au] ITO image of Australia

2009-08-17 Thread John Smith
I emailed asking for an image of Australia a while back, and finally got a reply today: http://www.flickr.com/photos/peterito/3829717632/ ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] List of potential datasources

2009-08-17 Thread John Smith
--- On Mon, 17/8/09, James Livingston doc...@mac.com wrote: I'll have a look around to see what's already been done for this, but  it shouldn't be too hard to. If the search is of the form 'X near Y'  then do a place lookup on Y, and if you find Y, then look for nearby  nodes with:   *

Re: [talk-au] List of potential datasources

2009-08-17 Thread Ben Kelley
Hi. Isn't that pretty much what the current OSM namefinder attempts to do? e.g. a search for park near Sydney or toilet near Sydney - Ben. 2009/8/17 James Livingston doc...@mac.com I'll have a look around to see what's already been done for this, but it shouldn't be too hard to. If the

Re: [talk-au] Victoria Khancoban Duplication of Snowy Valley Hwy off in the mountains.

2009-08-17 Thread Mark Pulley
On 15/08/2009, at 12:10 AM, John Smith wrote: --- On Fri, 14/8/09, Graeme Wilson wandere...@live.com.au wrote: Check the Snowy Valley Hwy around Khancoban. There are two of them. I'm not familiar with the that part of the country, can you give me a rough lat/lon or can you copy and paste

Re: [talk-au] Victoria Khancoban Duplication of Snowy Valley Hwy off in the mountains.

2009-08-17 Thread Graeme Wilson
Hi, The mystery road was removed almost immediately by a mystery OSMer straight after I first posted it. On OSM the road is marked as Alpine Way. I am sure it is called The Snowy Valley Highway, not to be confused with the Snowy Mountains Highway. SVH (Alpine Way) goes from around

Re: [talk-au] Google Map Maker update - releases Africa

2009-08-17 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 18/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: From Map Maker, Google has made the entire dataset of Africa fully available for download by non-profits, government agencies and individuals to create and enhance their own non-commercial map-related projects. OSM doesn't

Re: [talk-au] Victoria Khancoban Duplication of Snowy Valley Hwy off in the mountains.

2009-08-17 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 18/8/09, Graeme Wilson wandere...@live.com.au wrote: On OSM the road is marked as Alpine Way. I am sure it is called The Snowy Valley Highway, not to be confused with the Snowy Mountains Highway. It could be both at the same time.

Re: [talk-au] Sturt highway

2009-08-17 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 18/8/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: i've just made a relation for the whole of the Sturt Highway, and added route number relations for the victorian and nsw parts. please take the opportunity to check that I've got this right because i may have selected wrong parts or done

Re: [talk-au] Google Map Maker update - releases Africa

2009-08-17 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 2:23 PM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 18/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: From Map Maker, Google has made the entire dataset of Africa fully available for download by non-profits, government agencies and individuals to create and

Re: [talk-au] Sturt highway

2009-08-17 Thread John Smith
It seems you haven't include all parts as there is gaps between sections when you sort the relation. Sorry, I didn't notice the multi road intersections, that would have caused the gaps. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Sturt highway

2009-08-17 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: It seems you haven't include all parts as there is gaps between sections when you sort the relation. A later version of JOSM 1900ish has a much nicer relation interface. I tried to pick up all the bridges and roundabouts but i'll get a new JOSM

Re: [talk-au] Sturt highway

2009-08-17 Thread John Smith
I've been marking all members in a relation as a role member not forward/backward as we don't have official designations such as east/west/north/south like they do on US interstates. I'm not saying I'm right but it is less work :) You have ref=NHA20 for NHA20 in SA, but I'm not sure what to do

Re: [talk-au] Sturt highway

2009-08-17 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 18/8/09, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: I tried to pick up all the bridges and roundabouts but i'll get a new JOSM You did, but I didn't notice the 3 diff ways at the nsw only end of things, they probably confused JOSM. The comment about the relation editor just makes it

Re: [talk-au] Sturt highway

2009-08-17 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 18/8/09, John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: I think I'd just tag it as ref=20, network=A and then we can add a rule to show NH shields for these routes for addr:state=South Australia Hmmm that wouldn't work either, since other network=A aren't NH, maybe the network will

Re: [talk-au] Sturt highway

2009-08-17 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, John Smith wrote: I've been marking all members in a relation as a role member not forward/backward as we don't have official designations such as east/west/north/south like they do on US interstates. so i make them all member? then can get altered later I'm not