[talk-au] [Brisbane] EWB Missing Maps event with Australia Red Cross Youth

2019-02-19 Thread Joel H.
Hello all! I would like to forward an invitation to all Brisbane OpenStreetMappers! A Missing Maps mapathon is being held on 28th Feb (6pm) by Engineers Without Boarders and the Australian Red Cross Youth. And on the 12th Apr a larger event will be held. Both events take place at WSP 900

Re: [talk-au] Turn lanes review

2019-02-17 Thread Joel H.
Are you using Map Paint styles in JOSM? These help you visually see what your road tags are doing. "Enhanced Lane and road attributes" is the one you want, It's under View > Map Paint Style > Preferences I don't know if it would be helpful in this situation, or if you already use it. But it has

Re: [talk-au] NSW LPI address import

2019-02-17 Thread Joel H.
If all is well with the data, Do we upload? P.S. I'm still in the middle of Brisbane City's import, so I can't help right now, But I'll jump in later in the month. On 11/2/19 7:28 am, Dion Moult wrote: > Hey talk-au, > > This is just a reminder that the NSW LPI address import project is > still

Re: [talk-au] Links with name

2019-02-17 Thread Joel H.
Linking roads should (generally speaking) never have names, an update to the ID editor now displays Destination instead of name for input. My suggestion would be to change the Offramp prefixes to: destination= The places mentioned on the exit sign destination:street= The road name that is at the

Re: [talk-au] Brisbane City Address Import

2019-01-15 Thread Joel H.
have had a quick look at the address data file in JOSM, and it looks > pretty good. When you split it by suburb / region, will you share the > smaller region files so other mappers can help with the review / > conflation / upload process? > > Regards, > David Wales > > O

Re: [talk-au] Brisbane City Address Import

2019-01-13 Thread Joel H.
importing and the procedure you're planning on using. > > On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 at 15:46, Joel H. wrote: >> Hi no need. I figured out all I needed with a simple python script I found >> online and LibreOffice Calc. >> >> On 13/1/19 12:59 pm, David Wales wrote: >> &g

Re: [talk-au] Brisbane City Address Import

2019-01-12 Thread Joel H.
Is this information worth preserving in the upload? On 13/1/19 12:52 pm, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote: >> - What does the "ADDRESS USE TYPE" field mean? And should it be >> preserved? > > Hi, just guessing, when a property fronts onto two roads, 'Uprn > (official location)' is where their mail

Re: [talk-au] Brisbane City Address Import

2019-01-12 Thread Joel H.
Hi no need. I figured out all I needed with a simple python script I found online and LibreOffice Calc. On 13/1/19 12:59 pm, David Wales wrote: > If you create a repository for your import scripts, and create some > issues, I'm happy to help out. > > Have a look at Dion Moult's import repository

[talk-au] Brisbane City Address Import

2019-01-12 Thread Joel H.
Hello everyone, I think that we should do selective imports of Brisbane City address data, seeing as we have a waiver and obtaining address data manually is labor intensive. Since I live here I can handle imports. However I would like help preparing the csv file, anyone who can lend some python

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-12-20 Thread Joel H.
). Other than that, I think >> we're all good to go. >> >> Not wanting to hijack the project I've been a bit unsure on how to push >> this import over the last hump. I could write up a list of questions for >> the mail list or I could try to finish the wiki page and have the >> di

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-12-18 Thread Joel H.
Hmm, It's been almost a month since the last message in this import-related thread. I hope for a date planned so we can follow through with the plan, since it seems pretty complete. If Andrew Davidson is still interested, his script could help match and add the nodes into the relationships and

Re: [talk-au] Adding lane tags to major roads

2018-12-16 Thread Joel H.
Hey I'm not familiar with MapRoulette. Where can I view the source code? I (or maybe you could) would like to perhaps make one for QLD. If you are interested, I would choose Bing by default, but really none are perfect. On 12/12/18 3:54 am, Martijn van Exel wrote: > Thanks. Because you cannot

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag:barrier=kerb

2018-12-14 Thread Joel H.
This was something I also found confusing, I have updated the wiki page with an image that shows how it works. On 15/12/18 2:09 am, Jack Armstrong dan...@sprynet.com wrote: > Thanks, Bryan :) > > -Original Message- > From: Bryan Housel > Sent: Dec 14, 2018 10:06 AM > To:

Re: [talk-au] Hello!

2018-11-22 Thread Joel H.
few >> mapping competitions in the near future for a few cities in >> Australia, I’ll make an announcement separately when we’re ready to >> do that. (Early next year I think) >> >> Another tool I’ve found really useful for checking complete / correct >> tagging of motorways is >

Re: [talk-au] TMR Road Centerlines dataset

2018-11-16 Thread Joel H.
Thats pretty cool, I might compare a few of these roads. On 15/11/18 9:25 pm, Andrew Harvey wrote: > I did some brief comparison it and there was at > least one place where it was better than what's in OSM currently > (geometry). I find the a geometry of the government data to be less straight

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-11-11 Thread Joel H.
v1.0, I was planning to see if I could flag if the selected > node is inside/outside the boundaries (eg: Mount Isa) and also look > for duplicate place nodes (ie: same name appearing on different values > of place). > > > On 7/11/18 2:57 pm, Joel H. wrote: >> How are we w

Re: [talk-au] Hello!

2018-11-07 Thread Joel H.
Thanks for introducing yourself. A little while ago I fixed up the whole M5 motorway (and I believe some of the M3 as well) in Brisbane and wrote a diary post about it. Mostly with what I did. I was wondering whether what I did was correct, or if my method has given you any ideas?

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-11-06 Thread Joel H.
How are we with our import plan on the wiki, Do we have any blockers stopping the PSMA import? I think we should start setting dates state-by-state for import. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Correcting inland water features

2018-10-30 Thread Joel H.
I noticed this dataset too, but could never figure out how to open it with JOSM. Andrew Harvey, have you checked out these files? And do you have any plans to convert them? If we plan on doing a wider scale import I would suggest separating each stream into its own .osm file so we could check

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-30 Thread Joel H.
18 6:37 am, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > Hi Joel > > Happy to help with Gold Coast area if there's anything I can do. > > I only use iD though, not JOSM, so don't know if that's a problem? > > Thanks > > Graeme > > > On Tue, 30 Oct 2018 at 21:13, Joel H. <mailto:jo

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-30 Thread Joel H.
right fix, > we need to snap the nodes and then removed the shared ways. > > We should be able to fix this in the processing scripts by increasing > the tolerance that things get snapped together. In this case here, the > two ways/nodes are 0.1m apart. > On Sun, 21 Oct 2018

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-24 Thread Joel H.
e > two ways/nodes are 0.1m apart. > On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 at 12:33, Joel H. wrote: >> On 19/10/18 5:01 pm, Andrew Harvey wrote: >> >>> Is there a problem with crossing ways? Why do they need a shared node >>> when they are different admin levels? &g

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-21 Thread Joel H.
s there's a better/automated way, let's > just address this manually either during the import or immediately > after. > On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 at 12:33, Joel H. wrote: >> On 19/10/18 5:01 pm, Andrew Harvey wrote: >> >>> Is there a problem with crossing ways? Why do they need

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-19 Thread Joel H.
Just took a look at the crossing boarders without ways error, and it seems some level 10 boundaries are indeed overlaping. Check out -22.5639465 147.0726169 in Queensland. As for way too long, I also don't think that needs fixing, just some automated JOSM warning not taking context into

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-15 Thread Joel H.
OK, just tell me when you are ready, and I'll clean up QLD ready for import. On 14/10/18 10:46 pm, Andrew Harvey wrote: > On Sun, 14 Oct 2018 at 21:15, Joel H. wrote: >> Hey Andrew, >> >> Today on the QLD slack, I had a local mapper ask me about suburb areas. >>

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-14 Thread Joel H.
Hey Andrew, Today on the QLD slack, I had a local mapper ask me about suburb areas. I personally think it would be an opportune time to start on the QLD import at least. What is the status on the PSMA data? Is it ready to import, and is anything holding us back? In the meantime, I have run

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-09 Thread Joel H.
Good, doing country wide I think would have been a pain. I just tried QLD and all is looking good except the boundaries which extend into the ocean. Are you going to do the upload? And when should we do it? On 9/10/18 6:19 pm, Andrew Harvey wrote: > On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 13:10, Andrew Harvey

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-08 Thread Joel H.
>discuss if this is the right format for upload or not I found that GeoJSON file you sent worked best for me. Otherwise we stick with .osm for OSM. I'm having trouble with that PBF file you sent (or I don't have enough memory (I have 8GB)) >how we'll manage that upload in terms of breaking it

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-06 Thread Joel H.
>Do you have examples of the overlapping ways? It looks pretty okay around Brisbane to me. Here's an a mesh of the LGA's in GeoJSON which you can import into JOSM with enough memory. https://tianjara.net/data/LGA_mesh.geojson.xz Just import the shapefile into JOSM and use the validation. The

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-05 Thread Joel H.
. But the biggest problem is that the names are all caps! Does anyone know a way to automatically convert all of these properly so that "BRISBANE" is "Brisbane"? On 6/10/18 12:07 pm, Joel H. wrote: > > Hi cleary (and everyone), > > This is excellent news, I wasn't awar

Re: [talk-au] PSMA Administrative Boundaries

2018-10-05 Thread Joel H.
Hi cleary (and everyone), This is excellent news, I wasn't aware of this. I think this is great and would be interested in importing Queensland's My first though is to add a fixme notice (in similar fashion to the NSW import), that tells us to reconsider the place label node already in OSM, and

[talk-au] Thoughts on highway=toll_gantry proposal

2018-09-30 Thread Joel H.
I have been using the barrier=toll_booth to mark automatic toll systems on Brisbane highways. However this may introduce time penalties for the routing systems. A proposal is in for highway=toll_gantry (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_Features/Toll_Gantry) It attempts to map the

Re: [talk-au] Sidewalk vs Footpath?

2018-09-20 Thread Joel H.
In iD for me at least, paths next to roads are called "Pavement". I agree with this terminology the most and think it was a mistake for OSM to adapt the footway=sidewalk tag. On 20/9/18 8:57 pm, Andrew Harvey wrote: > Personally I refer to the path next to the road designed for > pedestrians as

[talk-au] New event for Kangaroo Point in Brisbane.

2018-09-16 Thread Joel H.
For everyone in Brisbane, On the 30th of September we will be holding a mapping party event in Kangaroo Point starting at 14:00 and finishing at 17:00. You can read more at the wiki page: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Brisbane/Events/2018-09-30_Kangaroo_Point_Mapping_Party If you are

Re: [talk-au] Proposed Brisbane City Council Datasets Import

2018-09-16 Thread Joel H.
Awesome, I have been using the data to help with parks! I don't think an import would be too good, just an update to existing data. I might look into an updating of public transport and park information later. On 10/09/18 22:00, talk-au-requ...@openstreetmap.org wrote: > Send Talk-au mailing

[talk-au] Slight revamps to AUS Tagging Guidelines for Urban Footpaths

2018-06-24 Thread Joel H.
Just letting everyone know that I did a slight revamp to the Guidelines for Urban Footpaths over on our Tagging Guidelines page (https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Australian_Tagging_Guidelines#Urban_Footpaths_and_Cycleways). It was mostly formatting, but I also added some clarity. Mostly to the

[talk-au] Got an email from Royal Geographical Society of QLD about Boundaries

2018-06-20 Thread Joel H.
A few days ago Bob from the Royal Geographical Society of QLD sent me an email about mapping historical Pastoral Districts. Anyone around Brisbane should have a little read (particularly the question to OSM). I made the suggestion that Open Historical Map should be used instead. I was also

Re: [talk-au] I made my own administrative boarder for the City of Ipswich

2018-06-04 Thread Joel H.
I would add the tag source= ... say something like 'personal knowledge, better local knowledge appreciated'. I will do this. By the way .. it is better to alter something to what you want rather than deleting the old and making a new, that way people can track the history of the object

[talk-au] I made my own administrative boarder for the City of Ipswich

2018-06-04 Thread Joel H.
Just letting the mailing list know that I decided to make my own administrative boarder for the City of Ipswich. You can see it here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/8348274 Sadly towards the south and west of Ipswich it was hard to work out where the boarder truly is. If anyone has

Re: [talk-au] Mapping houses and addresses in Sydney

2018-06-03 Thread Joel H.
OSM is permitted to use the LPI Base Map, This contains street number where they are. However I am not from NSW so I can't say how accurate LPI is. You are best to do a ground survey, the Android app StreetComplete is good for this as long as the houses have been mapped already. If you wish to

[talk-au] Morton Bay National Park should have it's ID numbers under ref=

2018-05-02 Thread Joel H.
Hello, I'm just noticing around Moreton Bay Marine Park. Many nature_reserves are currently formatted as follows: name= Honeymoon Bay (MNP05) Shouldn't this be: name= Honeymoon Bay ref= MNP05 ? -Joel ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Am I doing intersections right?

2018-04-27 Thread Joel H.
I guess now my question is, do we need better definitions of the usage of the destination tag? I saw back on that North Lakes intersection linked before (https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/-27.24180/153.02459). That we had the destination= tag filled with the Suburb. Shouldn't this be the road

[talk-au] Am I doing intersections right?

2018-04-23 Thread Joel H.
I wouldn't call myself new exactly, but since most roads were down since the time I joined somethings are hazy. I have recently added and changed some details related to intersections (mostly adding slip roads and traffic lights). What I'm mostly interested about are slip (turn left anytime with

[talk-au] Virtual Mapping Party for Brisbane

2018-04-08 Thread Joel H.
our next event is. I will colour-code loose zones for people to map in (similar rules to HOTOSM, try to stay in your zone). So please, if you are interested please respond ASAP! -- Joel H. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [talk-au] I have written a response to DNRM, please give feedback

2018-03-12 Thread Joel H.
Have we necessarily exhausted all our options? I only ever asked DNRM, I know of other dataset from different agencies which is also CC-BY 4.0. Also is it really needed to redact all that DCDB stuff? That was imported back when we had permission right? On 12/03/18 17:07, Jonathon Rossi wrote: >

Re: [talk-au] I have written a response to DNRM, please give feedback

2018-03-11 Thread Joel H.
rry about not replying all with my last email. > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Joel H. <95.5.ra...@gmail.com > <mailto:95.5.ra...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > OK everyone, Here is the feedback I got after asking for > permission to use CC-BY 4.0 datasets:

[talk-au] How would I go about tagging South Bank in Brisbane?

2018-02-27 Thread Joel H.
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Bank,_Queensland) South Bank is a cultural, social, educational and recreational precinct in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The precinct is located in the suburb of South Brisbane, on the southern bank of the Brisbane River. This

[talk-au] [OSM Brisbane] Missing Maps Volunteer Mapping Party

2018-02-18 Thread Joel H.
Hello all. You may have heard that I will be taking over OpenStreetMap Brisbane events along with Stéphane. This year we are aiming for one event per month, so try and come along to as many as you can! This March we will be doing a Missing Maps party, This is a volunteer event that will

[talk-au] How to map CBD boundaries?

2018-02-04 Thread Joel H.
I just downloaded an export of NSW boundary data from OSM. Now in this dataset a locality called "Tweed Heads" has been included, The problem is that is area only covers the CBD and not the city (including all suburbs) as a whole. How should I go about mapping this CBD boundary? Also if

[talk-au] I have written a response to DNRM, please give feedback

2018-02-01 Thread Joel H.
Hi All! I have made a response to DNRM, regarding the licensing for locality boarders. Please give a critique before I send! /Hello [NAME],// // //Thank you for your time and consideration regarding the approval for OpenStreetMap.// // //As a response to your concern over the licence change,

[talk-au] Fixing NSW Locality boundaries

2018-01-29 Thread Joel H.
Someone has imported all the boundaries for localities into OSM, However most of these have fixme's. (example: https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/6070204) These ask for a center point/node, and to reconsider the place= tag. Would it be a good idea for me to first, make a relation with the

Re: [talk-au] How do I map left only turning lanes on a motorway?

2018-01-29 Thread Joel H.
are overly complicated because an early (no longer active) mapper really liked mapping turning lanes as separate ways, and not all have been fixed. - David On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 at 16:59 Joel H. <95.5.ra...@gmail.com <mailto:95.5.ra...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello, I'm adding lane data

Re: [talk-au] How do I map left only turning lanes on a motorway?

2018-01-29 Thread Joel H.
because an early (no longer active) mapper really liked mapping turning lanes as separate ways, and not all have been fixed. - David On Mon, 29 Jan 2018 at 16:59 Joel H. <95.5.ra...@gmail.com <mailto:95.5.ra...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hello, I'm adding lane data to the Inner

[talk-au] How do I map left only turning lanes on a motorway?

2018-01-28 Thread Joel H.
Hello, I'm adding lane data to the Inner City Bypass in Brisbane. In this spot here: https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/23615424 there is 3 lanes, however the left turn only lane is already mapped as a separate motorway link. My intention is to add turning lane data to this part of the ICB.