Re: [talk-au] farm airstrips

Hi all, I'll put my two boobs worth in here, but my information is extremely dated. When I was gliding back in the 80's, we used to fly from a private airstrip. There was no windsock erected. When I asked about this, I was told that a windsock implied a public airstrip

Re: [talk-au] Dual naming in NSW

I'm struggling to word this reply without being labelled racist or discriminatory, but I believe the English names should remain and the "alt_name" field be used for local names. Anything else will render OSM data unusable to the majority of people in this country. Ian On 6/6/23 8:06 am, Tom

Re: [talk-au] Australian maps for Garmin devices

Lads, Anyone else use http://download.geofabrik.de/australia-oceania.html other than me?? I have been using them for a number of years and I've had no problems thus far. Data is "refreshed" every 24 hours or so. I had a few hoops to jump through with splitter.jar and mkgmap.jar to get

Re: [talk-au] Naming Ramps in Australia

As a user, I would prefer to hear what I'm looking at. In other words, the sat nav is saying what the signage is showing. Ian On 17/11/20 12:00 am, Aleksandar Matejevic (E-Search) via Talk-au wrote: Hi all, I have noticed that the majority of ramps in Australia tend to have descriptive names

Re: [talk-au] Bushwalking site using OSM

there for any missing walks or problems, or if you're keen you can send a merge request, but an issue is sufficient. On Thu, 28 Mar 2019 at 18:59, Ian Bennett mailto:ibenn...@tpg.com.au>> wrote: Andrew,         Can anyone contribute?? If so, can you advise the hows and whats

Re: [talk-au] Bushwalking site using OSM

Andrew, Can anyone contribute?? If so, can you advise the hows and whats please. We are heading up to Weddin NP (near Grenfell, NSW) to do a few "stomps" and I always take my GPSMap60CSX when we go. Ian On 28/3/19 7:56 am, Dion Moult wrote: This site looks fantastic Andrew! You

Re: [talk-au] more SEO spam?

Concur. Be ruthless. These people are akin to nuisance callers and should be publicly flogged. Ian On 30/1/19 7:22 pm, nwastra wrote: We seem to be getting a lot of business edits in this form lately with only a name and description tag, often with address details or just spam in the

Re: [talk-au] osmaustralia.org website and Garmin .img files -, current status ?

Ian, I haven't used that site for ages. I get the australia-oceania pbf file from geofabrik.de (updated daily) and use splitter.jar and mkgmap.jar (both from www.mkgmap.org.uk) to create my own gmapsupp.img file (I'm still using a GPSMap 60CSx). I do this mainly because I can

Re: [talk-au] Back in editing - Tracks and 4wd areas

PM Ian Bennett wrote: Crikey I hope not!! I say this because I am doing something similar. In so far as labelling, see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines Wealth of info here :-) Thanks, forgot about that page. One thing I didn't find, how do I add

Re: [talk-au] Back in editing - Tracks and 4wd areas

Davis, Crikey I hope not!! I say this because I am doing something similar. In so far as labelling, see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines Wealth of info here :-) Ian On Thu, 5 Jan 2012 17:59:33 David Findlay wrote: I contributed quite a