[talk-au] newbie Potlatch question

2009-08-02 Thread John Henderson
I've been reading this list for a while, and hope it's the right place to ask newbie questions. As a beginner, I've been mapping local roads, cycle paths, footpaths and things with Potlatch without any real problems. Usually, I've been uploading gpx files from a Garmin 76 CSx. But I can't

Re: [talk-au] Distributing Garmin maps

2009-09-22 Thread John Henderson
John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: The only requirement is that you attribute the data to OSM. Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: In a manner suited to the medium you need to acknowledge the licence. The stuff I've put onto my Garmin has OSM on the map page of settings so that would

[talk-au] Mapping railway lines

2009-10-06 Thread John Henderson
Has anyone had success using a GPS unit inside a metal railway carriage to map a railway line? I notice that parts of the main line between Sydney and Melbourne are missing, eg: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-34.7446lon=147.886zoom=14layers=B000FTF I'd consider doing the trip on the XPT

Re: [talk-au] Mapping railway lines

2009-10-07 Thread John Henderson
Liz wrote: I drew in railway line from landsat (hopefully that was marked as source) and lined it up with crossings and bridges. If you have better data, please move the railway. I haven't managed to get a trace on any railway because I seem to be limited to walk, bike, car, plane. If

Re: [talk-au] Mapping railway lines

2009-10-07 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: On one of the wiki pages it talks about something like this with European trains, and unless you get a GPS lock before boarding the train you most likely won't get one at all, however once you have a lock it's easier to keep it. I've started using a amplified external

Re: [talk-au] Routable Garmin Maps for NSW

2009-10-15 Thread John Henderson
Nick Hocking wrote: A while back I could download the zip file for NSW from osmaustralia.org http://osmaustralia.org, unzip it rename the img file to gmapsupp.img, copy it onto the Garmin Nuvi and I would have routable osm maps on the Garmin, Recently when I do this the maps are not

Re: [talk-au] Routable Garmin Maps

2009-10-15 Thread John Henderson
Nick Hocking wrote: Thanks, I still don't know what I was doing wrong but I can now show this to some people at work who are showing a lot of interest, in openstreepmap, hence my other questions about navit and gosmore. Using routable maps to suggest routes across town is a great way of

Re: [talk-au] highway=living_street - what do people think?

2009-10-16 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: I've marked one street as living street where pedestrians have more right of way than cars: http://osm.org/go/ueTQqmgH8-- Very well - I'll leave it as living_street. John ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] highway=living_street - what do people think?

2009-10-16 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: Is that one of those turning circles with a grass/garden bed in the middle? The one in Canberra is constructed like a normal roundabout (big concrete slab centre, IIRC), except that there's townhouses in every direction except for the entry/exit point. John

Re: [talk-au] Help with a couple of things

2009-11-12 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: Are you talking about tiles being rendered? If that's the case you just need to clear your browser cache. Tiles being rendered is only part of the story. I'm aware of caching at my end, and believe I've eliminated that as the sole cause. Let's say I add a road, upload the

Re: [talk-au] What to tag Rays Lane?

2009-12-01 Thread John Henderson
cam_...@fastmail.fm wrote: Also, what's the best thing to do when you've discovered that 2 ends of the same road have slightly different spellings on their physical road signs? I've tried to tag the road as best I can http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/way/45369647 Do you think it'd be

Re: [talk-au] What to tag Rays Lane?

2009-12-01 Thread John Henderson
Liz wrote: I never noticed that anyone had changed Garry Owen that I had put in - I know I'd tagged the road and ignored it from there. It's a small world :) John ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Blanchetown

2009-12-05 Thread John Henderson
I should be there sometime during the Tour Down Under, if no-one else gets the opportunity before then. But a quick look around suggests there's a lot to be done all the way from Renmark. John Liz wrote: I've just put in some of Blanchetown SA I believe it has a grid of streets but my

Re: [talk-au] Blanchetown

2009-12-05 Thread John Henderson
Liz wrote: There is a lot of empty space in real life in that district. True, but compare these for an example of what I mean: http://www.whereis.com/sa/waikerie?id=21ADA5CC8AE6F4 http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-34.1803lon=140.017zoom=14layers=B000FTF John

Re: [talk-au] Blanchetown

2009-12-05 Thread John Henderson
Liz wrote: This Christmas Peter and I will be visiting Adelaide, so if we make one trip via the Sturt we could map one town / village reasonably well. Pre-plan and we'll have a virtual mapping party on the Sturt Highway. If you zoom in on the whereis map, you'll see two roads whose names are

Re: [talk-au] Australian Cycleways

2009-12-12 Thread John Henderson
Liz wrote: On Sat, 12 Dec 2009, John Henderson wrote: without changing any of the track/cycleway/path stuff mark a shared path as highway=cycleway because then they are visible as cycleways to the renderer and to the router. the presence of a painted line down the middle of the track

[talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2009-12-12 Thread John Henderson
I've made a start on the daunting task of documenting the Hume and Hovell Walking Track. I've created a relation to cover the route: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?relation=308594 This track goes from Hume's Cooma Cottage just east of Yass all the way to Albury. Quite a bit of the route is on

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2009-12-12 Thread John Henderson
Ross Scanlon wrote: Should these already be highway=unclassified then. Or if they are 4wd_only=yes then they should be highway=track and tracktype=*. Some maybe. But if I did survey them I'd like to do a thorough job, and the state forest is a real rabbit warren of logging access tracks.

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2009-12-12 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: It might be could to document such relations on the wiki so that if someone else comes along later finishes it off rather than starting a new relation. I'd had the same thought, although I'd assumed it might be easy to delete a relation after transferring the ways to

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2009-12-12 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: Alternatively if these routes have route numbers we could do a custom shield and have the shields show on the map similar to tourist routes. Although I've noticed they've started to use picture based tourist routes, rather than numbered. Through Redcliffe in Qld they

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2009-12-12 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: Taken any photos of it, or Google StreetView images? Take a photo is the next thing to do. It's the two walkers with huge hats at the bottom of: http://www.lands.nsw.gov.au/_media/lands/pdf/recreation/P06_06_0036_H_and_H_Poster_Purple.pdf John

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2009-12-12 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: Have you emailed the Dept of Lands about art work? :) Not yet. But I've e-mailed the track manager (who I met on the track several years ago) about mapping it on OSM. His response was luke-warm, and he's yet to respond to my follow-up e-mail. I also intend asking him

Re: [talk-au] Australia BP service station dataset - suitable for bulk import?

2009-12-13 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: H BP has 2 locations listed for the same address, one is express one isn't, and I'm not sure which is correct, maybe BP has lost more service stations? :) http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/3360844 I notice that both are tagged with:

Re: [talk-au] Australia BP service station dataset - suitable for bulk import?

2009-12-13 Thread John Henderson
Ross Scanlon wrote: fuel:e10 = yes Replaces 91 octane at lots of BP servos. At least they have 95, 98 and lpg which suits me as the truck really does not like e10. Interesting. Personally, I use e10 in my '97 Pulsar almost always, even though Nissan say not to. I've never had a

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: I don't particularly mind which term we use, one that is the most common in a region/commonly known would make the most sense. I've heard both the term registered and licensed clubs... *shrug* Anyone have a preference for a particular reason? In my experience licensed

[talk-au] Roundabouts and routing

2009-12-16 Thread John Henderson
To me it seems an important aspect of OSM that its routable maps work well. I had been using my Garmin 76CSx with OSM maps to check this functionality. Because the screen is too small for thorough hands-free checking, I've just bought a Garmin Nuvi 1350. I'm finding that using this to direct

Re: [talk-au] Roundabouts and routing

2009-12-16 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: Adding in postcodes and the BP data I've noticed a LOT of square roundabouts... The problem arises mainly with economically-drawn flared approaches to roundabouts, as that term is used in http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:junction%3Droundabout John

Re: [talk-au] Roundabouts and routing

2009-12-16 Thread John Henderson
Ross Scanlon wrote: It becomes a problem when you join an entry and exit flare to the one node, which is incorrect anyway. Well put. John ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Roundabouts and routing

2009-12-18 Thread John Henderson
Roy Wallace wrote: +1. A problem with the router requires a simple ROUTER fix. The router just needs to be told that when entering a junction with a roundabout, that also happens to have an exit, that exit counts as the first exit. I can just see the people at Garmin falling over themselves

Re: [talk-au] Centrelink locations

2009-12-18 Thread John Henderson
Steve Bennett wrote: Yeah, good work. Should the name be Bairnsdale Centrelink or just Centrelink? I'm all for putting town/suburb names in as well. One place where it matters is looking up POIs on GPS units. These are sorted by proximity to current location. And when using the feature to

Re: [talk-au] Lanes [Was] Roundabouts and routing

2009-12-19 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: Most ways can be assumed to be 2 lanes, so this is only needed if there is more or less than 2 lanes, although tagging 2 lanes would at least show it has been surveyed/mapped properly rather than not knowing if the information is missing. Except when oneway=yes, of course -

Re: [talk-au] Sturt Virtual Mapping Party

2009-12-21 Thread John Henderson
Liz wrote: This am we'll head out along the Mallee, put some more streets in Manangatang and return next week via the Sturt and put some streets in Waikerie. If you're taking your bike, the bike path between Renmark and Paringa is nice and is missing from OSM. I'm still hoping to be

Re: [talk-au] Sturt Virtual Mapping Party

2009-12-22 Thread John Henderson
ed...@billiau.net wrote: No bikes this trip - but we did note the path when last in Renmark Now will it be a cycleway with walkers allowed? It is indeed - or at least that's how I'd tag it. I cycled and walked it 2 TDUs ago (before my OSM days). John

Re: [talk-au] Sturt Virtual Mapping Party

2009-12-22 Thread John Henderson
ed...@billiau.net wrote: No bikes this trip - but we did note the path when last in Renmark Now will it be a cycleway with walkers allowed? It is indeed - or at least that's how I'd tag it. I cycled and walked it 2 TDUs ago (before my OSM days). John

Re: [talk-au] Mapping railway lines

2009-12-23 Thread John Henderson
On 7 Oct 09, I wrote: Has anyone had success using a GPS unit inside a metal railway carriage to map a railway line? I notice that parts of the main line between Sydney and Melbourne are missing, eg: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-34.7446lon=147.886zoom=14layers=B000FTF I note that

Re: [talk-au] Portrush Road, Adelaide

2009-12-23 Thread John Henderson
ed...@billiau.net wrote: I've had another look at the data and Portrush Road is split, with some feeder lanes drawn in. Not sure which of these confuses the router now (very difficult to debug and drive the car down that hill) I'm not clear what you're doing. Are you coming down the motorway

Re: [talk-au] Portrush Road, Adelaide

2009-12-23 Thread John Henderson
ed...@billiau.net wrote: I've had another look at the data and Portrush Road is split, with some feeder lanes drawn in. Not sure which of these confuses the router now (very difficult to debug and drive the car down that hill) It's not obvious if it could adversely affect routing, but I see

Re: [talk-au] Routable maps

2009-12-24 Thread John Henderson
Steve Bennett wrote: I also just tried out routing on my new Garmin Oregon 550...awesome. I was on cycling Churchill Park in Melbourne's east and camping the night. The gps, using only osm data, found me some really interesting tracks that I wouldn't have thought of on my own. Someone's

Re: [talk-au] hiding boundary=administrative by default

2009-12-26 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: Your post was completely useless, why didn't you just post a bug instead of trying to make other people do it? Because some of us are yet to build the confidence for such action? John ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] amenity=parking in the middle of a field?

2009-12-26 Thread John Henderson
Roy Wallace wrote: Anyone know what the deal is with this?: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/316607432 Probably should be the nearby rest area. I've surveyed a few campsites that had a similar attribution, and had to move them quite a distance. EG, when I surveyed Lowden Forest Park

Re: [talk-au] Wrong way round the roundabout

2009-12-26 Thread John Henderson
Richard Colless wrote: I was trying out the latest routable OSM maps, and came across a couple of odd items. One was a roundabout where the Etrex told me to go round it in the wrong direction - anti-clockwise. It's the only one that gave me the wrong direction. I find it a bit odd that

Re: [talk-au] amenity=parking in the middle of a field?

2009-12-27 Thread John Henderson
Roy Wallace wrote: Anyone know what the deal is with this?: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/316607432 Here's another one that seems out by hundreds of metres to me, and from the same source: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/316590785 Although it's been a while since I camped

Re: [talk-au] Cycle path under railway

2009-12-28 Thread John Henderson
Geoff wrote: Hello I am slowly mapping parts of Warragul and cycled the shared use path in Linear park. The cycles track runs under the Bairnsdale line railway at one point and I was wondering how to map this. I thought about making two points on the way a bridge but JOSM would not allow

Re: [talk-au] Cycle path under railway

2009-12-28 Thread John Henderson
I wrote: As a relative newcomer myself, it's occurred to me that you might be trying constructing a bridge over the cycle path by modifying that path. But you'd need to modify the railway line to make a bridge over the path. In that case, tag a section of line with: bridge=yes

Re: [talk-au] Wrong way round the roundabout

2009-12-28 Thread John Henderson
Steve Bennett wrote: Also, what about weird dinky little strets you sometimes get in suburbia that are paved with red bricks or something equally creative, but are also the primary means of access to houses? Residential or service? highway=living_street if signage says that pedestrians have

Re: [talk-au] Walker intention books - how to tag?

2010-01-02 Thread John Henderson
I've wondered the same thing myself. My thought is that a user-defined amenity tag might be the most appropriate, given the lack of anything already defined. amenity=logbook seems simple and meaningful to me. Log books are frequently used to give and to update intentions. Maybe it could be

Re: [talk-au] Cul-de-sac

2010-01-02 Thread John Henderson
As you say, I and others have been using the node tag highway=turning_circle for this. It seems to neatly fit the bill: A turning circle is a rounded, widened area usually, but not necessarily, at the end of a road to facilitate easier turning of a vehicle. John Jim Croft wrote: Many of

Re: [talk-au] Invisible POI's

2010-01-03 Thread John Henderson
Richard Colless wrote: The trip to Timor Caves went well - now have tourist POI's for four of the caves, although it's a brave tourist that will use them. Also managed to survey most of the streets of Murrurundi, NSW. During this job, I noticed some interesting POI's. Just North of

[talk-au] Copyright questions

2010-01-03 Thread John Henderson
I'm unclear about some issues concerning copyright. I'd like to put up a couple of scenarios and get opinions. Let's say that many roads in a town are mapped but unnamed in OSM. And street signs are missing. I go to the local tourist information place and start asking for names. They give

Re: [talk-au] Copyright questions

2010-01-03 Thread John Henderson
Steve Bennett wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 10:16 AM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com mailto:snow...@gmx.com wrote: I'm unclear about some issues concerning copyright. I'd like to put up a couple of scenarios and get opinions. Let's say that many roads in a town are mapped

Re: [talk-au] Copyright questions

2010-01-04 Thread John Henderson
Liz wrote: We've considered putting L plates on the car to explain our erratic driving habits - stopping suddenly at intersections, taking all the dead ends and turning at the ends, doing loops around roundabouts and generally going slow. I've printed some business cards with the OSM logo,

Re: [talk-au] Copyright questions

2010-01-04 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: 2010/1/5 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: Liz wrote: We've considered putting L plates on the car to explain our erratic driving habits - stopping suddenly at intersections, taking all the dead ends and turning at the ends, doing loops around roundabouts and generally going

Re: [talk-au] Invisible POI's

2010-01-04 Thread John Henderson
Liz wrote: On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, John Smith wrote: It also didn't appear on my Garmin when I approached it. No idea how to get these show up on garmin's, although I'm guessing as some kind of POI that will give you warnings when you are coming close to them. They are in a binary file which

Re: [talk-au] Invisible POI's

2010-01-04 Thread John Henderson
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: The hassle with those custom POIs is needing the windows stuff to upload them. Otherwise making the list from OSM data is a programming job. I haven't found the need to load POIs from OSM into either of my Garmin units (Nuvi 1250 and PGSmap 76 CSx) yet. The OSM maps in

Re: [talk-au] Invisible POI's

2010-01-04 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: 2010/1/5 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: The OSM maps in Garmin format already fully integrate the POIs. But do they give you proximity warnings? No, I realised that fully was a mistake after I sent that. What I should have said is that OSM POIs all come up under Points

Re: [talk-au] Copyright questions

2010-01-05 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: 2010/1/5 Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au: The issue of copying names from a street directory is very similar. The publishers of the directory hold copyright over the graphic layout of the map, but they cannot hold copyright over the street names themselves. Those That's

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2010-01-05 Thread John Henderson
Steve Bennett wrote: I'll be adding the Overland Track in February Enjoy. I first walked that in February, 41 years ago. I grew a beard on that trip and still have it - never shaved since :) John ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Copyright questions

2010-01-06 Thread John Henderson
David Murn wrote: One that amuses me often, is between Canberra and Batemans Bay. Theres a small rural street which is shown as 'Black Sally Lane' on both google, whereis and my Navman GPS, however OSM shows the name printed on the street sign, which is 'Black Sallee Lane'. Both are accepted

Re: [talk-au] Default access restrictions

2010-01-06 Thread John Henderson
David Murn wrote: Im fairly sure ACT law doesnt allow riding on footpaths, only designated bicycle paths. All footpaths are shared paths (foot and bicycle traffic) in the ACT. John ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

[talk-au] Multi-value tags

2010-01-07 Thread John Henderson
I notice that multi-values can be used with some tags. For example, a road with two names (eg, local name and highway name) can have both names listed in the name tag separated by a semi-colon. Can the same trick be used generally? The Bicentennial National Trail is primarily a horse route.

Re: [talk-au] Multi-value tags

2010-01-07 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: 2010/1/7 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: I notice that multi-values can be used with some tags. For example, a road with two names (eg, local name and highway name) can have both names listed in the name tag separated by a semi-colon. Actually we are trying to reduce

Re: [talk-au] Multi-value tags

2010-01-07 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: 2010/1/8 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: How might I use a relation to generate multiple route tags (given that route tags are already within a relation)? Just duplicate the relation. I'd considered that, but thought it: 1) lacked elegance, and 2) conveyed the false

Re: [talk-au] Multi-value tags

2010-01-07 Thread John Henderson
Steve Bennett wrote: Hmm, if route=hiking is the standard syntax, that looks pretty defective - extremely limiting. Is there some multi-modal route type? Afaik, the whole BNT is supposed to be horseable, and sections of it are mtb-able. But there are big sections in the alps that are a

Re: [talk-au] Sturt Highway Virtual Mapping Party 09/10

2010-01-07 Thread John Henderson
Nick Hocking wrote: I notice someone's filled in lots of Waikerie too. John H My bits of this event are now edited in. I added some roads to Euston, mapped Paringa and then nearly finished Renmark. I eventually got sick of driving all those numerous dirt laneways (all alike) and left

Re: [talk-au] Download a route

2010-01-09 Thread John Henderson
Liz wrote: are intending to walk this route? I've cycled a fair proportion of its mate the Mawson and its a long way - but the Heysen is even longer I'd dearly like to (and I bought the book), but it's not practical for me to do so. I walked a lot of it that's south of the Barossa when I

Re: [talk-au] Download a route

2010-01-09 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: You can simply load a small section of the route, then in JOSM right click on the route and download members and then export the layer as GPX... Thanks John - I'd missed that despite looking around in JOSM. I guess a way to allow unsophisticated users to load routes into

Re: [talk-au] Download a route

2010-01-09 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: Do you have an example output file of what you need? Apparently I was over-optimistic about using the gpx file to create a route. The Garmin MapSource program doesn't handle the Heysen Trail gpx data very well. It has the route jumping huge distances between far away nodes

Re: [talk-au] Download a route

2010-01-09 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: Do you have any files that show routes on garmin devices properly? OK, I've created a couple of routes by manually assembling a few points using the two programs. And I see immediately that named waypoints are required. Not the trackpoints I'm more familiar with. The

Re: [talk-au] Download a route

2010-01-09 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: This is a very quick hack, the points aren't ordered properly, so the route may work, but still be screwy... Thanks for that John. I appreciate your effort. I've saved those as gpx files. I've certainly got some more research to do on how these route files work.

Re: [talk-au] Download a route

2010-01-09 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: Does anyone know of a complete route that we can use for testing against? Or at least one without large gaps between member ways... The HHWT has only one gap, at Lake Burrinjuck: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/308594 Lots of ways, including 3 roundabouts in

Re: [talk-au] Download a route

2010-01-10 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: The roundabouts are ok, it's when the track goes in multiple directions that things fall over. Unless you tell it not to link anything 1km or so apart, then it looks fine. See if this works for you at all...

Re: [talk-au] Multi-value tags

2010-01-11 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: 2010/1/8 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: John Smith wrote: 2010/1/8 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: How might I use a relation to generate multiple route tags (given that route tags are already within a relation)? Just duplicate the relation. I'd considered

Re: [talk-au] How do I tag a road that's also a major walking trail?

2010-01-11 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: 2010/1/6 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com: I've just set myself up with a login to the OSM wiki. Should I simply refer to the above relation IDs and names in the wiki under Bush Walking and Cycling Tracks? I'd link to the relations, not just mention the ID numbers, http

Re: [talk-au] Canberra - Survey War

2010-01-17 Thread John Henderson
Nick Hocking wrote: Well done John. You beat me to the new Casey streets by a few hours. OK, the next opportunity, I think, will be some new streets in Forde, off Zakharov Avenue. The area seems to be very finished, including street signs and I suspect that in one or two weeks they

Re: [talk-au] Canberra - Survey War

2010-01-17 Thread John Henderson
Liz wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, John Henderson wrote: I've been considering sneaking in on my MTB to make a start on Crace, but there's always workmen about. Even on Sundays? Absolutely! John H ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Boat ramp

2010-01-20 Thread John Henderson
Steve Bennett wrote: I would suggest tagging the way leisure=slipway. If you need to break the current specification to do so, then make a note on the wiki page. Tagging it highway=service seems wrong. Service roads do not go underwater... The tagging system is supposed to be flexible and

Re: [talk-au] Boat ramp

2010-01-20 Thread John Henderson
Stephen Hope wrote: A service road can lead to a boat ramp. But the boat ramp itself is not a point, it's a line. It's usually pretty clear where the ramp starts - where it ends is usually harder to find unless you go wading. Don't worry if it doesn't currently render. Record it in the

Re: [talk-au] Boat ramp

2010-01-21 Thread John Henderson
David Murn wrote: I think slipway is the British term. From the leisure=slipway wiki page: Yes, I'm happy now that they're using the term to apply to both types of boat launching facility. Anyhow, I've changed the tagging to show highway=service to the approximate high water mark, then

Re: [talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-21 Thread John Henderson
Mark Pulley wrote: I'm currently doing some edits in Armidale (NSW) following my trip there for Christmas. Many of the streets and surrounding roads are labelled lanes=1. Some of these are clearly wrong, as they have a painted line in the middle (lanes=2) - I will be changing these, but

Re: [talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-22 Thread John Henderson
Sam Couter wrote: There's no indication of how to map asymmetrical roads, Liz's suggestion of using 1/2 or 3/2 amuses me. As a separate issue, how to map roads with differing numbers of lanes, perhaps based on time? Pacific Highway at Turramurra is an example, I think the Spit Bridge in

Re: [talk-au] Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-01-26 Thread John Henderson
I wrote: I'll be downloading the Oceania file from http://download.geofabrik.de/osm/australia-oceania.osm.bz2 tomorrow morning and making a new Garmin map from it. I'll report back on the status of the coastline anomaly. The problem still exists. My Nuvi 1350 lets me save screenshots.

Re: [talk-au] re Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-01-26 Thread John Henderson
John Kitchener wrote: Here's how it renders on an Oregon 300 http://img695.imageshack.us/img695/2718/oregon300.jpg Using a different mkgmap style file and TYP file presumably to generate the gmapsupp.img file. They're highly configurable. I've started experimenting with them for the

Re: [talk-au] re Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-01-28 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: This came up on the talk list: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-January/047660.html Thanks John. Later today I hope to get a chance to try some of those ideas out. I'll post back any findings. John H ___

Re: [talk-au] re Coastline rendering in Garmins Mapsource

2010-01-28 Thread John Henderson
I wrote: Later today I hope to get a chance to try some of those ideas out. I'll post back any findings. OK, I'm the first to admit I'm operating outside my knowledge comfort zone here. But I've tried adding: --generate-sea=polygons,no-sea-sectors,close-gaps=2000 to the mkgmap

[talk-au] How to undo saved edits?

2010-02-02 Thread John Henderson
The thread on unintentional damage is timely. I find I may have deleted a way. I was cleaning up duplicated ways, and may have deleted too much in JOSM and then saved the result. I suspect that the gap in the foot track at this location might be my doing:

Re: [talk-au] How to undo saved edits?

2010-02-02 Thread John Henderson
Arie Paap wrote: On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 11:32 AM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: The thread on unintentional damage is timely. I find I may have deleted a way. I was cleaning up duplicated ways, and may have deleted too much in JOSM and then saved the result. I suspect that the gap

Re: [talk-au] How to undo saved edits?

2010-02-02 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: You don't need to delete something to see if there is a way underneath, just select the mid point and shift it on the top way, then hit ctrl+z if you need to undo the point creation/removal. An excellent point, and a much neater way of managing things. I've finished

Re: [talk-au] Canberra - last white spot on the map

2010-02-03 Thread John Henderson
Roy Wallace wrote: I use name=Woolworths for Woolworths petrol stations. Have never used the operator=* tag - should I? I haven't seen any difference to the rendering with or without the operator tag. What I do find useful is the inclusion of a place name when looking at the list of outlets

[talk-au] Another long distance hiking track

2010-02-04 Thread John Henderson
I found that the Cape to Cape Track between Cape Naturaliste and Cape Leeuwin in south-west WA had already been mapped. I've added a route relation which gathers up the parts and added it to the know relations in the wiki under Bush Walking and Cycling Tracks. In a day or two, it should render

Re: [talk-au] Rewrote section

2010-02-04 Thread John Henderson
I wrote: By parity of reasoning, should a cycleway which crosses a state border be regarded national? Like the one which crosses from Canberra (ACT) into Queanbeyan (NSW) on this bridge: http://www.osm.org/?lat=-35.343726lon=149.213133 Best put a zoom onto that:

Re: [talk-au] Canberra - last white spot on the map

2010-02-06 Thread John Henderson
Richard Colless wrote: Not so, John. We regularly shop at Woolworths, and when our grocery bill (or LiquorLand purchase) is more than $30, we get a fuel discount voucher printed on the bottom of the docket. We don't use loyalty cards/ As do I if I forget to have my card scanned, of course.

Re: [talk-au] Canberra - last white spot on the map

2010-02-08 Thread John Henderson
Craig Feuerherdt wrote: I agree that the interface on could be better on http://www.osmfuel.org/ seems strange to me why they use google maps as background!? But that is definitely off-topic! I'm definitely seeing an OSM map, with detail I've added recently. But service station sites are a

Re: [talk-au] Canberra - last white spot on the map

2010-02-08 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: I've cc'd the contact email on this email, it doesn't look like the locations update very often or at all to me either. There should be a lot more locations now that some bulk imports have occurred. I e-mailed them yesterday, asking if/how we could add more fuel types, like

Re: [talk-au] Canberra - last white spot on the map

2010-02-08 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: Just click on the location a couple of times and there is a list box where you can add fuel types. Maybe I'm missing something, but there's ethanol and e85. No e10, and no way I can see to add it. I've already added octane_91 to the servos in my area. John H

Re: [talk-au] OSM Fuel

2010-02-08 Thread John Henderson
Craig Feuerherdt wrote: The underlying map in OSM Fuel is definitely Google. Compare http://www.osmfuel.org/?lat=-36.73lon=144.29 http://www.osmfuel.org/?lat=-36.73lon=144.29 with the same area in OSM - http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-36.7336lon=144.2994zoom=13

Re: [talk-au] Canberra - last white spot on the map

2010-02-08 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: I was guessing ethanol = e10 I take ethanol as meaning e100 (like what's available in Brazil). I'm not sure that adding information there gets uploaded back to OSM if they don't keep their database of locations updated. I assumed it doesn't. But adding octane_91 (which is

Re: [talk-au] Canberra - last white spot on the map

2010-02-08 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: On 9 February 2010 10:56, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: I take ethanol as meaning e100 (like what's available in Brazil). It doesn't explicitly state one way or the other on the wiki: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Fuel Also it's against the laws

Re: [talk-au] Canberra - last white spot on the map

2010-02-08 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: As per a previous email, the author has offered to send me a copy of his code, not sure that I'll be able to do much with it since it's in python, but ya never know. Well I've got half-way through Learning Python by Mark Lutz since I retired. Ideally the fuels shown

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2010-02-11 Thread John Henderson
Arie Paap wrote: I'm making some progress fixing up Perth suburb boundaries - honestly I'm finding it painful to untangle some of the changes, but I'm getting there. Looking further South I came across the relation for Burekup which was missing some of it's boundaries. OK, I think, I'll

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2010-02-15 Thread John Henderson
John Smith wrote: That was cached, I forced the server to regenerate the tile and it no longer shows that much blue. Perth's the one I hadn't tried regenerating reloading. Any thoughts on the other two, further south? John H ___ Talk-au mailing

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