On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 18:24:26 +1000
John Smith wrote:
> 2009/10/6 Liz :
> > On Tue, 6 Oct 2009, Jeff Price wrote:
> >> G'day all,
> >>
> >> Any chance folks could take some conversations offline, or batch
> >> up their 15 emails into a single email? I presume I'm not the
> >> only one who has pret
Passing on something that came up in the ABC feed today:
"A Gold Coast surveying team says it has confirmed suspicions that
Queensland has claimed Northern Territory land."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/09/16/2687218.htm
Cheers
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On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 08:36:10 +1000
Roy Wallace wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:41 PM, Hugh Barnes
> wrote:
> >
> > I'd like that, too. It's also been discussed regarding temporary
> > features like events and road closures and seasonal features.
> >
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:44:55 +1000
Ashley Kyd wrote:
> As far as I know, it's a problem in different locations from year to
> year though. That would mean it needs cleaning up each year after the
> magpie season's over.
>
Assuming they nest reasonably consistently in the same place year after
y
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:19:22 +1000
Roy Wallace wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 2:15 PM, John Smith
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Unless waste_basket=yes is an "approved" tag the likelihood of it
> > being searched by anyone not using the tag is almost nil
So the bonus is that it works now and (arguabl
Just read in my local rag about a magpie hotspot map:
http://city-south-news.whereilive.com.au/news/story/magpie-hotspots/
This occurred to me just recently after being on the receiving end of
an air raid. Should probably be areas rather than nodes. It would be a
useful feature on the cycle map a
On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:28:02 +1000
Roy Wallace wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 9:57 PM, Hugh Barnes
> wrote:
> >
> >> Any objections (from anyone) to adding these to
> >> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dbus_stop ?
> >>
> >
> >
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 21:57:29 +1000
Hugh Barnes wrote:
> I need to research a little more to see where it's at. It
> builds on this:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/unified_stoparea
>
> but I think there is a tidier page somewhere.
Bah, I can&#
On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 08:43:18 +1000
Roy Wallace wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 9:43 PM, James Livingston
> wrote:
> >
> > I've been doing that for a while (well, except waste_basket=*), so
> > that's a +1 from me :)
>
> Any objections (from anyone) to adding these to
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.
On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 12:01:14 + (GMT)
John Smith wrote:
> --- On Wed, 19/8/09, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> > I'd like to be smarter, and upload where we know we have
> > good work
> > and not upload where our map still needs a lot of input
> > yet
>
> Having a wiki template/function where you ju
On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:14:40 +1000
Hugh Barnes wrote:
> I've never found a list of members anywhere. I never received any
> acknowledgement except in receipt for the payment I made. Not
> particularly complaining, just wonder why. Odd way to respond to
> people who show you supp
On Wed, 12 Aug 2009 20:00:31 +1000
Matt White wrote:
> Hey, out of interest, how many people on this list are OSMF members?
>
+me
I've never found a list of members anywhere. I never received any
acknowledgement except in receipt for the payment I made. Not
particularly complaining, just wonde
On Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:53:41 +1000
Ashley Kyd wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was having a conversation the other day when the purpose of
> amenity=shelter was brought into question.
>
> http://barstool.ash.ms/photos/07082009-shelter.jpg
>
> Above is a photo I took while out the other day. It's a shelt
On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:34:52 +1000
Liz wrote:
> ok, I've put my name down.
> it was a 5 minute effort so if they want us we'll be asked and if
> they needed convincing we will have to try again.
>
I think that means you did it, right? If so, well done! Certainly
didn't seem like a 5-minute jo
On Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:58:29 +1000
Liz wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Hugh Barnes wrote:
> > Just thought I'd interrupt the twitter-like pace of this list lately
> > [1] and mention this.
> >
> > As I keep reading in feeds [2], linux.conf.au 2010 is on in
>
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:53:47 +1000
James Livingston wrote:
> On 29/07/2009, at 10:43 PM, Hugh Barnes wrote:
> > I think OSM's profile in the FOSS community is a little dim.
>
> There have been quite a few posts on planet.gnome.org in the last
> couple of months about i
Hi
Just thought I'd interrupt the twitter-like pace of this list lately
[1] and mention this.
As I keep reading in feeds [2], linux.conf.au 2010 is on in Wellington
early next year. We've discussed before how "cool" it might be to put
up a paper, tutorial or display there [3], if _only_ we could
On Tue, 13 Jan 2009 11:11:29 +1100
Liz wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Hugh Barnes wrote:
> >
> > I just noticed the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia is
> > marked as just off the Queensland coast on the slippy map. I wish!
> > It's at zoom levels 2 to 6:
On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:00:07 +1100
Liz wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, James Livingston wrote:
> > What would probably be a good idea for next year, would be to get
> > the university grounds and surrounding POIs mapped well -
> > particularly with coffee shops, pubs, restaurants and other things
>
Greetings
I just noticed the French Pacific territory of New Caledonia is marked
as just off the Queensland coast on the slippy map. I wish!
It's at zoom levels 2 to 6:
http://openstreetmap.org/?lat=-20.7&lon=165.3&zoom=5&layers=B000FTF
There's a few other weird coastline renderings in that view
Hi
If anyone is interested in joining a new OSM transit list, please sign
yourselves up here:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-transit
I'm forwarding Peter Miller's message as per the request in its
last paragraph. As he says, if you are interested in this subject, now
is the time to
On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 19:41:59 +1100
Matt White wrote:
> >
> I have a sneaking suspicion that National Parks and State Forests are
> defined by acts of Parliament at the federal and state levels
> respectively, so the co-ord are probably in Hansard somewhere...
>
Well, Hansard is just the tr
On Tue, 9 Dec 2008 18:55:28 +1100
"Paul Zagoridis" wrote:
> Maybe the register could be started and the funds made available to a
> peer-reviewed mapper some way. E.g. if I volunteer to do a town, then
> I'd need to submit 3 favourable recommendations of my work by other
> Australian OSM'ers.
>
On Wednesday 03 December 2008 05:39:30, Jim Croft did write:
> Rather than a categorization, a better value for the tag would be the
> actual population estimate.- the use of a value rather than a category
> is common in metadata (specifying measured precision rather than
> allocating a class, for
Hi
Another locally flavoured tagging question.
I entered some towns recently. I got stuck wondering whether they were
actually towns, villages, or hamlets.
I think Australia applies different criteria to determine this designation. If
you follow the guidelines at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/
On 21:07:59 18 Nov 2008, Hugh Barnes did write:
> See you next Wednesday, Thor willing!
>
The forecasts seem to indicate that the worst we can expect is a few showers
tomorrow night. This is not ideal but I'd like to go ahead. I figure we can
just regroup and eat drink and be mappy
On Monday 17 November 2008, 21:19:05, Hugh Barnes did write:
> Brisbane mappers
>
> Just to let you know, I'm considering postponing the mapping party this
coming
> Wednesday night. The reason is possibility of storms.
Yep, the forecast is dodgy however you look at it. There
Brisbane mappers
Just to let you know, I'm considering postponing the mapping party this coming
Wednesday night. The reason is possibility of storms. If there is any chance
of something like last night's little tempest, then the event probably won't
work well. I am thinking that even if it is r
On Wednesday 22 October 2008, 08:19:21, Hugh Barnes did write:
> I think this duty befell on me for being late to the first one …
>
> It's on again! Huge! Huge!
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Brisbane/Mapping_Party/2008-11
>
> I urge Brisbane mappers and
I think this duty befell on me for being late to the first one …
It's on again! Huge! Huge!
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Brisbane/Mapping_Party/2008-11
I urge Brisbane mappers and visitors to participate in wikiplanning the
November mapping party. As the first order, please help me t
At 09:21, Sunday 19 October 2008, Paul Zagoridis did write:
> Can I use the API or some other easy way to extract a subset of OSM data?
>
>
> Specifically I want to get a list of street names in Sydney Metro to double
> check addresses in a database.
>
This is probably what you want in this ca
On Wednesday 01 October 2008 09:03:34 Thomas Schröder wrote:
> Hi *,
>
> I am new to the openstreetmap and wonder what would be a good GPS
> receiver. [The Scytex NaviGPS / Locosys (B)GT-11 looks very nice and
> small].
Same as the other Thomas S, I have only owned one, a Garmin eTrex H. It was
t
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