Re: [talk-au] GA national park and state forest datasource - been discussed before?

2010-02-24 Thread Craig Feuerherdt
Chris, That GA dataset IMHO would form a good base for national/state forests. Looking at the metadata it is suitable at a 1:5 000 000 scale and therefore a whole heap of small parks will be missing/totally inaccurate, but as I said it would provide a base to start updating/adding missing parks

[talk-au] Overmapping?

2010-02-24 Thread Michael
Hi all! With the excellent resolution of the nearmap images, the smallest detailscan easily be added. But is this always a good idea? Have a look at http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-32.073593lon=115.755062zoom=18 The footways along Duoro Road and Harbour Street (but not the one between them!)

Re: [talk-au] Hiking tracks: foot=yes or foot=designated?

2010-02-24 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 3:59 PM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: I think it is useful.  We're used to it with road networks, with national routes and state routes.  Sure, hiking trails are shorter, but that doesn't mean it's unworkable. Just so we're on the same page, I understand you as

Re: [talk-au] Overmapping?

2010-02-24 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 11:00 PM, Michael spam...@gmx-ist-cool.de wrote: The footways along Duoro Road and Harbour Street (but not the one between them!) do not carry any information IMHO I disagree. They indicate that there is a footway there. If it's a verifiable fact, IMHO it rightly

Re: [talk-au] Overmapping?

2010-02-24 Thread Liz
On Thu, 25 Feb 2010, Roy Wallace wrote: but clutter the map display, especially on GPS units. With three times as much nodes per meter of the street(the actual road + 2 footways), data processing and editing is getting ever more resource hungry. This, on the other hand, may well be

Re: [talk-au] Overmapping?

2010-02-24 Thread Steve Bennett
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 6:59 AM, Liz ed...@billiau.net 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 loading onto

Re: [talk-au] GA national park and state forest datasource - been discussed before?

2010-02-24 Thread Steve Bennett
Yeah, but: The data are subject to Copyright. Data files may be downloaded from Geoscience Australia's website at www.ga.gov.au/download/. A licence agreement is required. Strange wording, and where is this licence agreement? Steve ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Hiking tracks: foot=yes or foot=designated?

2010-02-24 Thread John Henderson
Steve Bennett wrote: Just so we're on the same page, I understand you as proposing that we use NWN for the AAWT and the BNT, and nothing else. Zero IWT, two NWN, lots of RWN and LWN. Yes, until we develop other national trails. I think we can do better. I don't. When the Bicentennial