[talk-au] Nambour Mapping Party
There has been great work here related in Ash Kyd's diary. I've had a quiet whisper that someone in Sydney wishes a mapping party be organised - well you've got a lot to aim for now! I live about 600km from Sydney so am not available to organise a mapping party in Sydney. But next time I have to visit Wollongong we could have some sort of a Gong meetup. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Nambour Mapping Party
--- On Tue, 18/8/09, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: I've had a quiet whisper that someone in Sydney wishes a mapping party be I should do a write up on the wiki on how I organised the Nambour mapping party, it technically would be possible for anyone to organise a mapping party anywhere, attending them is a different matter :) However it really didn't take much effort, you could skip a few things like mail outs to other groups, I think it might be better to approach these groups about a talk then being invited to a mapping party. You also don't need to get a banner printed. All you really need is some quiet space, maybe with internet but most last weekend seemed to have internet access via their phones. You then just need to set up a wiki page with the relevant details, where/when etc, mail to this list and possibly adding a social event to the geocaching.com site too. Once the server I'm doing maps on is back up and running I plan to have some method for people to add events to the events calendar. That's about it, to be most effective these events nearly need to be regular, that way people will know roughly when an event is and so on. David Dean is planning to hold these events the third Friday/Saturday of each month. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] I've been trying to fix the highway shields and came across this....
John Smith-129 wrote: --- On Mon, 17/8/09, BlueMM bluemm1975-...@yahoo.com wrote: But my point was if they *are* consistent (same shield design), why specify state? Consistent to what? Some states have gone to a alphanumeric system, some use the old NH shields and those with the alphanumeric system have different shields between states. http://www.routemarkers.com/Oceania/ That website appears inaccurate. It says the state route marker is no longer used in Vic, but there is a route with that marker a block away from me right now. Also, the M1/7 example appears wrong, AFAIK, the one used in VIC is more like the NSW one, without the outer green border. It has slightly rounded inner green square an outer white border (also rounded). I don't think the outer green border is worth showing a different shield, just make them all the same. Maybe it's worth creating a Australian rendering page on the wiki where we can collect all the different route signs. With the addr: specifier, there's no reason why we can't get the Australian/state specific shields into the main OSM map (mapnik). John Smith-129 wrote: I don't know if any are consistent right around Australia, but I suggest we mention drop the state for know national shields. From what I've seen there is no consistency, even when they change to the alphanumeric system they still differ in the shields they use :) Is the tiny differences worth it? I don't think so John Smith-129 wrote: I can think of a potentially hundreds of routes which are for eg. C123 and called TownA-TownB Road. It could be that is far more prevalent that needing the separate ref/name relations. Just trying to keep it simple, anyone else got ideas/opinions? I've only been talking about highways, not roads, I haven't considered what to do about roads, same thing as streets I suppose. That seems contrary to the new changes to the Australian Tagging Guidelines regarding M/A/B/C Alphanumeric routes (ie. this proposal). It seems to me to apply to all road routes. Most of the BC rural roads I know in Victoria are not highways. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/I%27ve-been-trying-to-fix-the-highway-shields-and-came-across-this-tp24970890p25021174.html Sent from the OpenStreetMap - Australian Talk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] I've been trying to fix the highway shields and came across this....
On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, BlueMM wrote: That website appears inaccurate. It says the state route marker is no longer used in Vic, but there is a route with that marker a block away from me right now. Also, the M1/7 example appears wrong, AFAIK, the one used in VIC is more like the NSW one, without the outer green border. It has slightly rounded inner green square an outer white border (also rounded). I don't think the outer green border is worth showing a different shield, just make them all the same. Maybe it's worth creating a Australian rendering page on the wiki where we can collect all the different route signs. With the addr: specifier, there's no reason why we can't get the Australian/state specific shields into the main OSM map (mapnik). http://www.ozroads.com.au/ is a better site, well photodocumented with dates for each photo ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] Minor Highways
I couldn't find the email Liz wrote about it, but I've just created a ref relation for the Gwydir Highway, as a result I can't see a good reason for 2 relations in this case. In the case of the A1 in QLD that's a diff matter as the A1 is more than just one highway. Can anyone think of a good reason for multiple relations on minor highways? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] maps.bigtincan.com
The server is currently en route to the data centre and will be back up shortly, it took longer than expected for this to happen due to things outside our control. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] maps.bigtincan.com
Server is now back up and running, and instead of being in a virtual it is now on the server itself, quad core xeon with 4G of ram and scsi 10k hdd's, so it should be a tad faster :) Because it was offline for a few days it's still catching up with OSM change files and is about 14 or so hours out of date still, but it should be up to date within a few hours give or take. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] I've been trying to fix the highway shields and came across this....
I'm going to be adding Tourist Route Shields to the map shortly but in the process of looking for a graphic I came across this page on wikipedia: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Route_shields_of_Australia It lists shields for a number of things like Alt National Route, and on one of the other wiki pages it uses 'D' routes to mean Detour however these routes aren't in the same category as MABC. Does anyone think this is a good idea? Use network=D for D classified roads, if they exist. Use network=detour for NSW classified detour routes Use network=alt_NR for Alternate NR routes ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] Bruce Highway... A1 only or A1+M1 ?
Can anyone from Brisbane confirm this. As far as I can tell the Bruce Highway which starts just after the Gateway Motorway ends north of Brisbane and is only tagged A1, however both wikipedia and ozroads think the Bruce Highway is signed as M1 as far north as Cooroy. All the signs on the dual carriage way going south of Cooroy and north of the Nambour connection road have had a cut out riverted over the old shields and now only have A1, but I don't go to Brisbane much/at all so I can't remember what they are south of Nambour. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] I've been trying to fix the highway shields and came across this....
D roads certainly do exist, however at times the signs are covered over/folded up etc. The one I know for certain is a Pacific Highway detour which heads West from Nabiac and goes up to Krambach: http://osm.org/go/uaQzXe_ After that I don't know where it goes. There's a D sign at this intersection: http://osm.org/go/uaQzVoPL but I've not followed it after that. I guess it goes to Gloucester and follows the Buckets Way back to the Pacific Highway ~30km North of Raymond Terrace. The D sign linked to above was only installed after a fatal accident occured on the Pacific Highway at Buladelah which resulted in all traffic being diverted at Nabiac (and a large number of cars passing by our property on Wallanbah Road requiring directions). Prior to that accident ~2 years ago I don't think there was an official detour route, so they may only be temporary and not worth mapping. For anybody who's interested the D route sign in question is visible in Google Street View here: http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8ll=-32.085556,152.322092spn=0,359.92301z=14layer=ccbll=-32.085453,152.32208panoid=u93FikimFDFYopOTvwIqEgcbp=12,212.72,,0,12.53 -Brent - Original Message - From: John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 2:24 pm Subject: Re: [talk-au] I've been trying to fix the highway shields and came across this To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org I'm going to be adding Tourist Route Shields to the map shortly but in the process of looking for a graphic I came across this page on wikipedia: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Route_shields_of_Australia It lists shields for a number of things like Alt National Route, and on one of the other wiki pages it uses 'D' routes to mean Detour however these routes aren't in the same category as MABC. Does anyone think this is a good idea? Use network=D for D classified roads, if they exist. Use network=detour for NSW classified detour routes Use network=alt_NR for Alternate NR routes ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
