Re: [talk-au] Lonely Planet
On 12 April 2010 08:03, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry to be a party pooper, but do you think Lonely Planet would be okay with this kind of use of their publication? I doubt she'd be copying it verbatim, more likely she's using it like a street directory for route planning and will use a GPS device for the location and can survey for names on signs at the same time. i'm using it for ideas and i'm yet to find gps co-ords on any page and for food and accommodation they have quite restricted lists - mine are much bigger but not all tested :) ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Tamworth, NSW
Hi. I said largely complete :) Partly I'm still adding streets because they keep building them. My mother-in-law jokes that they can build them faster than they can be mapped. Foot and bike paths are mostly absent. Slip lanes and one way streets are pretty good (basically there aren't many). No right turn not so good (although again, there aren't many). - Ben. On 12 April 2010 10:20, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: If youre still adding streets, then the mapping is hardly complete. How do you define complete? Do you include the foot/bike paths? Do you include tracks in the area, such as firetrails? What about slip lanes, one-way streets, no right/left turns, crossings, etc? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] UK gov wastes millions on redundant cycle route planner
On his personal website Mr Taylor explains how a free online cycle route planner has been available in Cambridge since the Cambridge Cycling Campaign Journey Planner was launched in 2006. This system then mutated into CycleStreets, a nationwide project, which provides users with suggestions for cycle friendly routes and allows them to choose for either an unhurried or quick ride. The cost of this scheme, in terms of central government funding, was a few thousand pounds (around £5,000 to £6,000). In 2009, the Department of Transport launched a service via its transportdirect.info website, enabling people to find cycle friendly routes in eighteen specific areas of the UK. The government website only covers a small handful of selected locations, while CycleStreets covers the whole of the UK, subject to restrictions set by the quality of Open Street Map data for a given area. CycleStreets provides additional function not available through the official option, including integration with a national photomap which allows people to see photos taken along the route. The site also integrates with Google Earth. The cost of work on the government site to date, according to a freedom of information request submitted via the whatdotheyknow website is £2,383,739, with plans currently under way to spend a further £400,000 on adapting what has been produced to provide a route planner for a Cycling for Schools programme. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/12/cycle_route_planner/ ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] What to do with fixme=not_reviewed
And if I leave the tag how do I indicate to others that the location is OK? Ken source:location=survey -- Cheers Ross ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] What to do with fixme=not_reviewed
On 13 April 2010 11:30, Ken Self kens...@optusnet.com.au wrote: Is it enough to check the location of the node (easy) or should I leave the fixme tag until the address, phone number, fax number etc are also all verified (rather more difficult)? That tag is predominantly for location, it's assumed the other information is more correct than the geocoding. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] What to do with fixme=not_reviewed
On Tue, 2010-04-13 at 11:30 +1000, Ken Self wrote: I'm seeing loads of fixme=not-reviewed tags for bulk uploads of service stations, centrelink and police stations. Is it enough to check the location of the node (easy) or should I leave the fixme tag until the address, phone number, fax number etc are also all verified (rather more difficult)? And if I leave the tag how do I indicate to others that the location is OK? Wiki answers all... http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_BP_service_stations David ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] Revisiting Maleny, Qld
I'd kind of forgotten about Maleny, some of you may have remembered it being mentioned it in the past when the Qld boundary data became available, here's a screen shot that was taken at the time: http://map-data.bigtincan.com/data/maleny.png The boundary data was surprisingly accurate it turns out: http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-26.760728,152.8492z=16t=hnmd=20100125 ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
