Re: [talk-au] Boat ramp

2010-01-20 Thread David Murn
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 16:53 +1100, John Henderson wrote: > How about tagging boat ramps as: > > highway=service > service=boat_ramp > > I think a slipway is different from a boat ramp. I know a slipway as a > track (perhaps with rollers) for launching boats and for winching them > ashore for re

Re: [talk-au] Boat ramp

2010-01-20 Thread David Murn
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 13:51 +1000, Stephen Hope wrote: > 2010/1/21 David Murn : > > Also, from the wiki for 'service': > > "Generally for access to a building, motorway service station, beach, > > campsite, industrial estate, business park, etc.. > > > > This doesnt sound wrong to me, if a service

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 th

Re: [talk-au] Boat ramp

2010-01-20 Thread John Smith
2010/1/21 Stephen Hope : > 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. Assuming you don't go head over tail on the ramp and do an i

Re: [talk-au] Blue?

2010-01-20 Thread John Smith
2010/1/21 Arie Paap : > From a brief look the coastline appears to be intact and I can't see > any way located on the boundary of the blue background which might be > the cause. The coast lines only update infrequently, so even if it looks right now it may have been broken in the past, I've tried

Re: [talk-au] Blue?

2010-01-20 Thread Arie Paap
Yes, the background throughout most of metro Perth is blue. At higher zoom levels any tiles that don't have blue background will become blue when submitted for rendering (by requesting the tile with /dirty added to the URL). >From a brief look the coastline appears to be intact and I can't see any

[talk-au] Blue?

2010-01-20 Thread Andrew Gregory
Just wondering if others are seeing blue too? http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-31.754&lon=115.906&zoom=11&layers=B000FTF What I'm seeing is blue, just like the ocean, from just south of Yanchep, down to just south of Rockingham, east just past Kalamunda. Maybe it's global warming raising th

Re: [talk-au] Boat ramp

2010-01-20 Thread Stephen Hope
2010/1/21 David Murn : > Also, from the wiki for 'service': > "Generally for access to a building, motorway service station, beach, > campsite, industrial estate, business park, etc.. > > This doesnt sound wrong to me, if a service road can lead to a beach or > campsite, why not to a boatramp? A s

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 flex

Re: [talk-au] JOSM on handheld device

2010-01-20 Thread David Murn
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 11:52 +1000, John Smith wrote: > 2010/1/20 David Murn : > > Well, the screen size isnt the issue. OziExplorer does the job great, > > however it uses its own proprietary formats for trace and POI files, > > which means I have to do a conversion to use them. OziExplorer is al

Re: [talk-au] JOSM on handheld device

2010-01-20 Thread John Smith
2010/1/20 David Murn : > Well, the screen size isnt the issue.  OziExplorer does the job great, > however it uses its own proprietary formats for trace and POI files, > which means I have to do a conversion to use them.  OziExplorer is also > commercial software, so while using the free version Im

Re: [talk-au] Boat ramp

2010-01-20 Thread David Murn
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 10:35 +1100, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:02 AM, John Henderson wrote: > > Has anyone got a better suggestion for showing a boat ramp than > > extending a "highway=service" out into the water? The "leisure=slipway" > > tag is meant to apply to nodes, not

Re: [talk-au] Boat ramp

2010-01-20 Thread Roy Wallace
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:35 AM, 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. Yeah, how strange that a slipWAY can supposedly only apply to a NODE. _

Re: [talk-au] Boat ramp

2010-01-20 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 9:02 AM, John Henderson wrote: > Has anyone got a better suggestion for showing a boat ramp than > extending a "highway=service" out into the water?  The "leisure=slipway" > tag is meant to apply to nodes, not ways. I would suggest tagging the way "leisure=slipway". If you

Re: [talk-au] Boat ramp

2010-01-20 Thread Ben Kelley
I generally extend the highway=service into the water. - Ben. 2010/1/20 John Henderson > Has anyone got a better suggestion for showing a boat ramp than > extending a "highway=service" out into the water? The "leisure=slipway" > tag is meant to apply to nodes, not ways. > > Inland impoundment

Re: [talk-au] JOSM on handheld device

2010-01-20 Thread Andy Owen
> Ive tried a few packages such as opencitymap and OSM-tracker, but they > all seem to have pre-requesites that arent identified on the download > sites. > > I figure I cant be the only person who wants to edit OSM from my GPS > device, so Im hoping someone might have a few ideas for apps worth a

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap Sydney area imagery

2010-01-20 Thread John Smith
2010/1/20 John Smith : > It looks like Nearmap have started processing imagery from beyond just > the Sydney area down towards Wollongong... > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NearMap_PhotoMaps#Current_coverage > More imagery seems to be being processed round Geelong area too... _

[talk-au] Nearmap Sydney area imagery

2010-01-20 Thread John Smith
It looks like Nearmap have started processing imagery from beyond just the Sydney area down towards Wollongong... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/NearMap_PhotoMaps#Current_coverage ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.opens