[talk-au] Fwd: [Aust-NZ] guide to spatial acronyms

2010-05-17 Thread John Smith
-- Forwarded message -- From: Ross Johnson ros...@hotmail.com Date: 17 May 2010 16:06 Subject: [Aust-NZ] guide to spatial acronyms To: aust...@lists.osgeo.org This is a handy guide for deciphering acronyms used in the spatial industry!

Re: [talk-au] Tagging stormwater drain areas?

2010-05-17 Thread Andrew Gregory
On Mon, 17 May 2010 13:27:56 +0800, Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote: Is this what you are talking about? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/basin%3Dinfiltration http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-February/034383.html I had looked at basin=infiltration

Re: [talk-au] Tagging stormwater drain areas?

2010-05-17 Thread Liz
On Mon, 17 May 2010, Steve Bennett wrote: Incidentally, to make sure I'm understanding what we're talking about, you're talking about an area where water runs *into*, in order to seep into the soil? That would be a retention basin I think, and these drains have exits as far as i understand

Re: [talk-au] Broadcast tower locations

2010-05-17 Thread Liz
On Mon, 17 May 2010, John Smith wrote: The current tagging scheme for doing transponders don't seem to take multiple transponders on the same tower: multiple transponders and transmitters is normal, isn't it? (puts on ham radio hat) ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Tagging stormwater drain areas?

2010-05-17 Thread Richard Colless
Liz wrote: On Mon, 17 May 2010, Steve Bennett wrote: Incidentally, to make sure I'm understanding what we're talking about, you're talking about an area where water runs *into*, in order to seep into the soil? That would be a "retention basin" I think, and these drains

Re: [talk-au] Broadcast tower locations

2010-05-17 Thread John Smith
On 17 May 2010 20:12, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: multiple transponders and transmitters is normal, isn't it? (puts on ham radio hat) Not always, think older AM radio mast installations, especially in rural areas... ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Broadcast tower locations

2010-05-17 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 18 May 2010, you wrote: On 17 May 2010 20:12, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: multiple transponders and transmitters is normal, isn't it? (puts on ham radio hat) Not always, think older AM radio mast installations, especially in rural areas... that's this

Re: [talk-au] Broadcast tower locations

2010-05-17 Thread Liz
On Tue, 18 May 2010, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Tue, 18 May 2010, you wrote: On 17 May 2010 20:12, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: multiple transponders and transmitters is normal, isn't it? (puts on ham radio hat) Not always, think older AM radio mast installations, especially in rural

Re: [talk-au] Broadcast tower locations

2010-05-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 May 2010 08:04, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: around here every mast has heaps of transmitters tower space can be sold for good money a single transmitter on a tower is rare, unless we map these ones Maybe so, but the data the ACMA released only covers TV and radio stations, it

Re: [talk-au] Broadcast tower locations

2010-05-17 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:29 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 May 2010 08:04, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: around here every mast has heaps of transmitters tower space can be sold for good money a single transmitter on a tower is rare, unless we map these

Re: [talk-au] Broadcast tower locations

2010-05-17 Thread Liz
On Tue, 18 May 2010, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir wrote: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:29 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 May 2010 08:04, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: around here every mast has heaps of transmitters tower space can be sold for good money a

Re: [talk-au] Broadcast tower locations

2010-05-17 Thread Liz
On Tue, 18 May 2010, John Smith wrote: On 18 May 2010 09:35, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxi...@gmail.com wrote: The original data source contains all those kinds of things: http://web.acma.gov.au/pls/radcom/site_proximity.nearby_sites_list?pMODE= DMSpLAT=-35.13873086pLONG=149.17643464 It

Re: [talk-au] Broadcast tower locations

2010-05-17 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 18 May 2010, John Smith wrote: On 18 May 2010 09:50, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: Interesting, lists commercial licencees only That's a list of transmission sites, while most are probably commercial installations, I'm guessing some of the transponders will be for community radio

Re: [talk-au] Broadcast tower locations

2010-05-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 May 2010 10:29, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: FF3 or Konqueror was enough to get a listing of the sites close to a given area despite a piece saying xml error They have a map, but I couldn't get it to work, just the XML errors in frames... ___

[talk-au] vandalism?

2010-05-17 Thread Liz
on a low zoom map Tasmania now appears as Hampshire haven't got time to check it out ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

[talk-au] Fwd: [Aust-NZ] FW: Request to Participate in GEOSS Survey [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2010-05-17 Thread John Smith
-- Forwarded message -- From: Bruce Bannerman b.banner...@bom.gov.au Date: 18 May 2010 11:21 Subject: [Aust-NZ] FW: Request to Participate in GEOSS Survey [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED] To: aust...@lists.osgeo.org aust...@lists.osgeo.org Fyi. This is a worthwhile survey if you get the time.

Re: [talk-au] Broadcast tower locations

2010-05-17 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 6:41 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: I'm still after suggestions on how to tag multiple transponders for the same node, I don't think tagging multiple nodes on the same spot is a good idea, using a single node + multiple relations might work I suppose,

Re: [talk-au] Broadcast tower locations

2010-05-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 May 2010 13:00, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: Relations should only be used for groups of objects in which each object may take on a specific role. Maybe so, but it's often the best way to tag things at present since you can't have duplicate keys, but in this case you are

Re: [talk-au] vandalism?

2010-05-17 Thread Alex Lum
Someone had placed a POI in north western Tasmania for the Hampshire district, but with k=place,v=country, so it was showing up as a country label. I changed it to a hamlet for now. Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 11:40:01 +1000 From: Liz ed...@billiau.net Subject: [talk-au] vandalism? To: