[talk-au] Massive flooding
Not sure how useful it'd be in Australia, but the massive floods all over Australia, except for the bush fires near Perth of course, might do well to map a lot of effected areas from Bing where coverage exists. It might be worth while trying to get additional coverage for areas effected for humanitarian reasons, after all they're searching for bodies in Toowoomba not just people. Anyone have any ideas who could be approached for such imagery? ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding
On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 19:02 +1000, John Smith wrote: It might be worth while trying to get additional coverage for areas effected for humanitarian reasons, after all they're searching for bodies in Toowoomba not just people. Anyone have any ideas who could be approached for such imagery? Not that its terribly useful for the OSM project at the moment, but hopefully the nearmap guys might do some imagery as great as they did after the NSW floods in December. Anyone from NearMap got any reponses to when you might be flying affected QLD areas again? David ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding
I heard that they were planning to do flights up north a few days ago, but couldn't get flight permissions, what with the state of emergency. And in the southeast (actually, pretty much everywhere, today), you'd get lovely grey clouds right now. In fact, if you look at Brisbane, it hasn't been updated for months, for that very reason. Stephen On 11 January 2011 20:44, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: Not that its terribly useful for the OSM project at the moment, but hopefully the nearmap guys might do some imagery as great as they did after the NSW floods in December. Anyone from NearMap got any reponses to when you might be flying affected QLD areas again? David ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding
On 11 January 2011 20:44, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 19:02 +1000, John Smith wrote: It might be worth while trying to get additional coverage for areas effected for humanitarian reasons, after all they're searching for bodies in Toowoomba not just people. Anyone have any ideas who could be approached for such imagery? Not that its terribly useful for the OSM project at the moment, but hopefully the nearmap guys might do some imagery as great as they did after the NSW floods in December. Anyone from NearMap got any reponses to when you might be flying affected QLD areas again? While this might be good directly for those dealing with floods, it would be less than ideal for deriving from, some parts of the St George area wasn't very easy to derive from etc. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] Fwd: [Tagging] tagging world heritage (UNESCO) and other protected areas/features
Martin, for your information there was a bit of work done on this sort of thing in the past for Aussie parks covered by this, based on data from http://data.australia.gov.au I think. -- Forwarded message -- From: M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdre...@gmail.com Date: 11 January 2011 22:34 Subject: [Tagging] tagging world heritage (UNESCO) and other protected areas/features To: Tag discussion, strategy and related tools tagg...@openstreetmap.org Looking up the wiki there are several proposals for protected / listed features. 1. The oldest is this: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/unesco_world_heritage suggesting historic=unesco_world_heritage actually I'd like to deprecate this because using the key historic will create collisions on many features (that are historic themselves, like historic=archeological_site), and there is the more detailed (2) covering the same features. 2. There is also this: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/heritage The page suggests to use abbreviations as values, which is not according to our general tagging rules (and IMHO pointless, why not use the full word and get a more understandable mapping?). But there are some useful ideas for subtags on the page. 3. The most universal feature is IMHO this: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:boundary%3Dprotected_area allowing for cultural, natural and other protection types. A problem might arise if a feature is at the same time protected for different reasons. IMHO we could try to unify those different proposals. Are there already practical experiences / tags in wider use? Are there other proposals covering the same issues? cheers, Martin ___ Tagging mailing list tagg...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding
Main water supply dam for Brisbane (Wivenhoe) was under 40% a few years ago, it hit 170% today because of all the flash flooding in and around Toowoomba. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding
On 12 January 2011 03:51, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Main water supply dam for Brisbane (Wivenhoe) was under 40% a few years ago, it hit 170% today because of all the flash flooding in and around Toowoomba. For those in Brisbane, power is being cut to some suburbs at 7 am today (12/1/11) and may not go back on until after flood levels drop. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding
On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:44 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 19:02 +1000, John Smith wrote: It might be worth while trying to get additional coverage for areas effected for humanitarian reasons, after all they're searching for bodies in Toowoomba not just people. Anyone have any ideas who could be approached for such imagery? Not that its terribly useful for the OSM project at the moment, but hopefully the nearmap guys might do some imagery as great as they did after the NSW floods in December. Anyone from NearMap got any reponses to when you might be flying affected QLD areas again? @NearMap: We are on stand-by in #Brisbane awaiting the clouds to either lift or clear, so we can capture #qldfloods #thebigwet #qld #bnefloods http://twitter.com/NearMap/status/25057890825936896 ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding
Cloudbase was at 1600' last time James looked at it, which is a bit too low; I just spoke to him and whilst we can fly at 1000' if we want (for a 1cm survey), the buildings in Brisbane are a bit higher than in Perth :) Last time (Wagga) we managed to go from takeoff to images online in 8 days. Not making any promises on how fast we'll do it this time, but you can be sure we'll be working at it... Cheers Ben On 12 January 2011 14:03, Alex (Maxious) Sadleir maxi...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 9:44 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-11 at 19:02 +1000, John Smith wrote: It might be worth while trying to get additional coverage for areas effected for humanitarian reasons, after all they're searching for bodies in Toowoomba not just people. Anyone have any ideas who could be approached for such imagery? Not that its terribly useful for the OSM project at the moment, but hopefully the nearmap guys might do some imagery as great as they did after the NSW floods in December. Anyone from NearMap got any reponses to when you might be flying affected QLD areas again? @NearMap: We are on stand-by in #Brisbane awaiting the clouds to either lift or clear, so we can capture #qldfloods #thebigwet #qld #bnefloods http://twitter.com/NearMap/status/25057890825936896 ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Ben Last Development Manager nearmap.com ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] some contemporary mapping mashup or (map mashupping)
http://mapvisage.appspot.com/static/floodmap/map.html jim -- _ Jim Croft ~ jim.cr...@gmail.com ~ +61-2-62509499 ~ http://about.me/jrc 'A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.' - Robert Frost, poet (1874-1963) Please send URIs, not attachments: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
[talk-au] Question about source of low-resolution NearMap images
I'm working out whether I am able to accept the new OSM terms. I haven't used the detailed NearMap aerial photos, but what I have used is a low-quality image at zoom 13 and 14. I used these images for the Kiewa River in northern Victoria (this was before the detailed imagery for northern Victoria was put in, and most of the river is still outside the high-resolution images), and for an airstrip on Flinders Island. Are these low-resolution images public domain (in which case I can accept the new OSM terms), or are they copyrighted (in which case I will need to replace this data with Yahoo or Bing data prior to accepting)? (Bing imagery is much better, so the river will probably need to be retraced anyway.) Mark P. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
Re: [talk-au] Question about source of low-resolution NearMap images
If they're the Landsat/Blue Marble images that we use as the rest of the world layers where we don't have detailed PhotoMaps, then they are NASA data (see http://www.nearmap.com/legal/copyrighthttp://www.hw009i.nearmap.com/legal/copyright). It's pretty easy to spot the difference, as in this location: http://www.nearmap.com/?...@-36.244965,147.034836ll=-36.244965,147.034836z=13t=hnmd=20101117 ...Our PhotoMaps to the west, Landsat to the east. I believe that you can use the NASA data, but you should check the NASA pages (http://landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/, http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/BlueMarble/) to be sure. Cheers b On 12 January 2011 15:01, Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au wrote: I'm working out whether I am able to accept the new OSM terms. I haven't used the detailed NearMap aerial photos, but what I have used is a low-quality image at zoom 13 and 14. I used these images for the Kiewa River in northern Victoria (this was before the detailed imagery for northern Victoria was put in, and most of the river is still outside the high-resolution images), and for an airstrip on Flinders Island. Are these low-resolution images public domain (in which case I can accept the new OSM terms), or are they copyrighted (in which case I will need to replace this data with Yahoo or Bing data prior to accepting)? (Bing imagery is much better, so the river will probably need to be retraced anyway.) Mark P. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au -- Ben Last Development Manager nearmap.com ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
