Re: [talk-au] Wikifiddling

2010-04-28 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: I think that we need to put our stuff on our own wiki. I don't see how you reached that conclusion. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Mini Roundabouts.

2010-04-28 Thread Liz
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Richard Colless wrote: Liz wrote: On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Ben Kelley wrote: This is currently a real roundabout in OSM, but local knowledge tells me that it is impossible to go around more than about 90 degrees 270 degrees at this intersection. That is, from any

Re: [talk-au] Wikifiddling

2010-04-28 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, Roy Wallace wrote: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 4:26 PM, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: I think that we need to put our stuff on our own wiki. I don't see how you reached that conclusion. Because this is a public list and what I would have written in explanation is either

Re: [talk-au] Wikifiddling

2010-04-28 Thread John Smith
On 28 April 2010 19:26, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: I think that we need to put our stuff on our own wiki. I don't see how you reached that conclusion. Because this is a public list and what I would have written in explanation is either rude or possibly defamatory. I read the

Re: [talk-au] Wikifiddling

2010-04-28 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 28 April 2010 11:05, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 April 2010 19:26, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: I think that we need to put our stuff on our own wiki. I don't see how you reached that conclusion. Because this is a public list and what I would have

Re: [talk-au] Wikifiddling

2010-04-28 Thread David Murn
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 11:12 +0100, Emilie Laffray wrote: I personally don't use the wiki so I am not going to make much comments about what is going on... Just out of interest, if you dont use the wiki to figure out what tags to use, how DO you decide how to tag items? Do you just make things

Re: [talk-au] Wikifiddling

2010-04-28 Thread John Smith
On 28 April 2010 22:25, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: Just out of interest, if you dont use the wiki to figure out what tags to use, how DO you decide how to tag items? Do you just make things up, or are you referencing some other non-wiki source, which may also need to be kept

Re: [talk-au] Wikifiddling

2010-04-28 Thread David Murn
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 22:30 +1000, John Smith wrote: The tags can be whatever values you wish to put in, but only the agreed upon tags are rendered currently. If someone in Germany tags highway=autobahn or someone in Italy tags it as highway=superstrada (relative to the country where

Re: [talk-au] Wikifiddling

2010-04-28 Thread Emilie Laffray
On 28 April 2010 13:25, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 11:12 +0100, Emilie Laffray wrote: I personally don't use the wiki so I am not going to make much comments about what is going on... Just out of interest, if you dont use the wiki to figure out what

Re: [talk-au] Wikifiddling

2010-04-28 Thread John Smith
On 28 April 2010 23:11, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: If you read what I said, you'll note the end of the sentence 'are rendered currently'. Yes, anyone can ask for anything to be rendered, but Im wondering how someone can tag stuff without bothering to read the wiki. I could

Re: [talk-au] Mini Roundabouts.

2010-04-28 Thread John Smith
More tiny roundabouts... http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-36.784522,144.34539z=21t=hnmd=20100130 http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-36.781026,144.34619z=22t=hnmd=20100130 ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

[talk-au] Interesting take on OSM growth and expansion...

2010-04-28 Thread John Smith
http://brainoff.com/weblog/2010/04/28/1556 “What would it take to map an entire country?” With the growing visibility of Map Kibera, that question is coming more frequently, especially in Africa, where both OpenStreetMap and traditional mapping are widely absent. This is a massive question,

Re: [talk-au] Mini Roundabouts.

2010-04-28 Thread Liz
On Wed, 28 Apr 2010, John Smith wrote: More tiny roundabouts... http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-36.784522,144.34539z=21t=hnmd=20100130 http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-36.781026,144.34619z=22t=hnmd=20100130 JS can you give me leads on the local Council and I'll see what I can find out from meeting

Re: [talk-au] Wikifiddling

2010-04-28 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 8:12 PM, Emilie Laffray emilie.laff...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that a separate wiki can be useful at cases, if not only for the case that it can be potentially be easier to search and to work from it. In my opinion, this kind of fragmentation is something to be

[talk-au] J2ME Survey Assistant Application

2010-04-28 Thread Voon-Li Chung
(Cross post from the users: Australia forum) Hi all, I've been really getting stuck into performing on-foot surveys of areas where the street names are missing, and I was thinking about an easier way of recording street name data. Walking papers is fantastic (and I still use it to print out