Re: [Talk-us] relations on which thematic data can be connected? eg internet availabilty byt zipcode

2020-06-25 Thread stevea
s blend ZIP codes and census boundaries, you'd muddy a lot of water by using ZCTAs, especially as you use OSM data. I, too, (like Clifford) wish you good luck and hope you have fruitful results you might share with us here at the completion of your project. SteveA ___

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest boundaries

2020-06-26 Thread stevea
uters, one-to-many inners (inholdings) and both tags on the multipolygon itself (protect_class=6, operator=USFS, protection_title=National Forest...) AND tags on the individual inner members which are different (operator=BLM, for example). I've understood this and tagged like this for many years (an

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest boundaries

2020-06-23 Thread stevea
nd owned by the People, and managed for us properly, under law, BY our federal employees, the USFS." I retreat to more of a "watching mode" to see if more discussion shakes out of this. Again, it is fascinating. SteveA ___ Ta

Re: [Talk-us] National Forest boundaries

2020-06-24 Thread stevea
USFS may or might "have influence to someday manage." If we ignore 3) as "not real, but rather aspirational or in the future rather than the present, and certainly not on-the-ground" then an OSM multipolygon consists of simply 1) plus 2). Yes? SteveA

Re: [Talk-us] Rail tagging in US (and North America): operator=* and reporting_marks=*

2020-06-04 Thread stevea
My apologies (it was my error): the correct link to Chuck's post is https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Talk:OpenRailwayMap/Tagging_in_North_America ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Off-highway vehicle recreation areas

2020-06-06 Thread stevea
I am finding quite a few of these with quite-poorly tagged boundaries. Surely, OSM can do better than this, but Tod asks an excellent question: "with what tags, please?" SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Rail tagging in US (and North America): operator=* and reporting_marks=*

2020-06-06 Thread stevea
tion / standardization can happen later. This seems a workable approach, though I'd like to hear from others who might posit that a "no, let's globalize such tagging immediately" approach is better. SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Rail tagging in US (and North America): operator=* and reporting_marks=*

2020-06-06 Thread stevea
is in both our tagging and in our wiki, and again, quite extensively. SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Rail tagging in US (and North America): operator=* and reporting_marks=*

2020-06-12 Thread stevea
It is absolutely fascinating (to me, anyway) to watch this conversation! I thanked Russ Nelson on wiki for his comments at New York/Railroads. (And we still have a ways to go there). SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https

Re: [Talk-us] Rail tagging in US (and North America): operator=* and reporting_marks=*

2020-06-13 Thread stevea
offer "status reporting" with color-coded tables. I am bowled over that Nathan Proudfoot says "Researchers utilize OSM as we have the most up to date railway map in the country of any data source...". Wow! Go OSM, SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] admin_level and COGs, MPOs, SPDs, Home Rule

2020-06-02 Thread stevea
two sides and I'm not sure which is more important: convenience or accuracy. I lean towards accuracy, that is simply me (and my nature). Others are welcome to disagree, which means some discussion must continue. Honestly, I think the discussion is productive, provided we remain civil, and w

[Talk-ca] Rail tagging in Canada: operator=* and reporting_marks=*

2020-06-03 Thread stevea
hime in to the Talk page if this matters to you. Thanks! SteveA California ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-ca] Rail tagging in Canada: operator=* and reporting_marks=*

2020-06-03 Thread stevea
My apologies: the correct link is: https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Talk:OpenRailwayMap/Tagging_in_North_America ___ Talk-ca mailing list Talk-ca@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ca

Re: [Talk-us] Heavily-wooded residential polygons

2020-06-02 Thread stevea
ot; vs. "potential landuse," (does take place vs. can or might take place) where some say to "tag only what is actual." Others see this approach as a removal of land rights, further muddying what OSM means by landuse. These issues truly are complicated,

Re: [Talk-us] Heavily-wooded residential polygons

2020-06-02 Thread stevea
treetMap is valueable because it > provides local knowledge of what is really there. The "land, as it is being used, residentially" (denoted in OSM as landuse=residential) is really there, so I do. SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] admin_level and COGs, MPOs, SPDs, Home Rule

2020-06-02 Thread stevea
now map and perhaps might map with tags we agree are more accurate (or not). The topics are rich and complex, indeed. SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Heavily-wooded residential polygons

2020-06-02 Thread stevea
nversation. But what else would we call "the remainder of land which is used for residential purposes which does not strictly contain the footprint of a building (hut, apartment, tent, hogan, mud daub dwelling)?" Something other than residential? It is residential! SteveA ___

Re: [Talk-us] Coconino National Forest boundary isn't rendering anymore?

2020-07-16 Thread stevea
as rendering support, or lack thereof, for various values of protect_class), it is possible I lack full clarity into either the present exception of or intended effects of these tags and the Carto renderer. Here, I only offer my best explanation of present tag

Re: [Talk-us] Clear Creek County in Colorado has a broken county boundary

2020-07-17 Thread stevea
thank Taylor for his quick reply to my request for state-issued county boundary data: I appreciate the pointer. SteveA California ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Coconino National Forest boundary isn't rendering anymore?

2020-07-16 Thread stevea
ow it was previously though incorrectly tagged." SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

[Talk-us] Clear Creek County in Colorado has a broken county boundary

2020-07-16 Thread stevea
If any Colorado or Rocky Mountain area mappers know where data may be acquired to fix some missing segments in the boundary of Clear Creek County (relation/442310), I ask that they either be pointed to or that those data please be repaired. SteveA

Re: [Talk-us] Coconino National Forest boundary isn't rendering anymore?

2020-07-16 Thread stevea
rstanding. As the issue seems to be "at the highest zoom levels" (where I assume it wasn't before), I defer to the authors of the renderer code to determine what the root cause may be. SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Railway Wiki

2020-11-18 Thread stevea
(Answered off-list). SteveA ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] finding city boundary info?

2020-11-08 Thread stevea
Please tag boundary=census on census tracts. These are distinct from boundary=administrative + admin_level=8 (for city or town boundaries, at least in California). See United States/admin_level for what works out to be all fifty states and six "other things" like Territories and

[talk-au] How is the word "park" meant in Australian English?

2020-10-22 Thread stevea
Hi, it's stevea from California. Some of us in the USA are crafting a proposal (https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Park_boundary), may be two or three staged proposals, intended to better express the wide inclusive semantic "we" (OSM-wide, but including US English-spea

Re: [talk-au] How is the word "park" meant in Australian English?

2020-10-22 Thread stevea
Not muddy at all, your clarifications are excellent. Much obliged, mate! SteveA On Oct 22, 2020, at 6:25 PM, Greg Lauer wrote: > Good question > > To be clear I am a Kiwi (New Zealand) who lives in Australia (and has spent > many years in the US) so my interpretation may be slig

Re: [talk-au] The Paradox of Postcodes (Was Re: Victorian Vicmap Address Import Proposal - Suburb and Postcode discussion)

2021-06-17 Thread stevea
On Jun 17, 2021, at 2:14 AM, Andrew Harvey via Talk-au wrote: > It's a fair point that Vicmap's own postcode field shouldn't be taken as 100% > correct, it looks like it might have been assigned based on postcode > boundaries so might still suffer issues because of this, but where >

Re: [talk-au] The Paradox of Postcodes (Was Re: Victorian Vicmap Address Import Proposal - Suburb and Postcode discussion)

2021-06-18 Thread stevea
On Jun 17, 2021, at 2:14 AM, Andrew Harvey via Talk-au wrote: >> It's a fair point that Vicmap's own postcode field shouldn't be taken as >> 100% correct, it looks like it might have been assigned based on postcode >> boundaries so might still suffer issues because of this, but where >>

Re: [talk-au] The Paradox of Postcodes (Was Re: Victorian Vicmap Address Import Proposal - Suburb and Postcode discussion)

2021-06-17 Thread stevea
I know (I know), I’m talking to the Australia list and I’m in the USA (California). I have friends from Oz, but I’ve never been (I’d love to visit as a tourist, it’s on my bucket list). In the USA, the USPS (postal service) uses five-digit “ZIP” codes (Zone, digit 1; Improvement, digits 2 and

Re: [talk-au] Question - farm road access tag.

2021-07-05 Thread stevea
Very nice work, Mike King. Thank you. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Converting railway= abandoned to highway=track

2021-02-14 Thread stevea
No reason to get harsh. OSM has historically, does now and will into the future map abandoned rail. OHM is an interesting project, but it isn't OSM. It is neither harmful nor incorrect to "continue to include" a tag of railway=abandoned on a railway which is abandoned. It is a simple

Re: [talk-au] Oz Data Catalogue

2021-02-20 Thread stevea
Looks like a fantastic resource, Graeme. Great work! SteveA ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Strange friend request?

2021-08-29 Thread stevea
ot;loose places" where we might compromise security) by cute people with tasty-looking pectoral muscles or polka-dot bikinis. Or both. Glad to see the DWG "raises an eyebrow of suspicion" when we mortals on the ground "raise an eyebrow of suspicion." It's good. Carefu

Re: [talk-au] Import vs filtering query

2021-09-04 Thread stevea
onkers." I wish you the best in your efforts to enter high-quality, "fresh" data! SteveA [1] https://maproulette.org ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Import vs filtering query

2021-09-05 Thread stevea
To be clear, Ian, I'm not saying this use of data is an import, as you have said and as it appears to me and others, it is / would be using the data as a "filtering process" in a workflow. As such, I'm good with that. The points I was making are that 1) data drift over time and 2) there are

Re: [talk-au] FYI Public Records VIC - Map Warper

2021-09-07 Thread stevea
"Orthorectification" is the cartographic process here.  This means "stretching" an image to remove distortion so it will match (or closely match given mathematical constraints) the spatial accuracy of a given map (like OSM's data) so that a close-enough match between the image and the existing map

Re: [talk-au] FYI Public Records VIC - Map Warper

2021-09-08 Thread stevea
Apologies to any / all who got my missive twice. (Mailserver glitch on my end). ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] FYI Public Records VIC - Map Warper

2021-09-08 Thread stevea
Apologies to any / all who got my missive twice.  (Mailserver glitch on my end). ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Problems setting up MapRoulette Challenge

2021-07-28 Thread stevea
Getting a MapRoulette dataset (.json, perhaps) just right can be challenging, at least it was for me after I got the knack of these. For a while, I struggled with some "around" syntax in OT to garden my data more nicely. Even before that, the "rough cut" I started with bore a lot of fruit (it

Re: [talk-au] Problems setting up MapRoulette Challenge

2021-07-28 Thread stevea
A challenge (with MapRoulette) is in correctly writing the query to return the "proper" dataset. Once you do, it's great! ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Cycling on Victorian paths

2021-10-13 Thread stevea
On Oct 12, 2021, at 11:08 PM, Adam Horan wrote: > Is this something that could be pushed to maproulette? Not as reversions, but > tasks to validate or update OSM entries that match a pattern - eg edited by > this user and now has bicycle=no, highway=footway etc? I don’t want to say “absolute

Re: [talk-au] Cycling on Victorian paths

2021-10-12 Thread stevea
answer any more email ping-pongs. I had all primed my next email how to install a reverter, but didn't send that because it seems he remained in a low gear, and running a JOSM reverter is for those who are, um, "in a higher gear." Good luck getting your data in shape, there, m

Re: [talk-au] Cycling on Victorian paths

2021-10-12 Thread stevea
Sebastian, I'd be willing to help you off-list get your (alas, Intel-based only) macOS running JOSM. It starts with downloading a JRE (Java Runtime Environment) from here: https://java.com/en/download/apple.jsp After success with that, please send me an email and we can go from there

Re: [talk-au] Source material.

2021-10-17 Thread stevea
Wow, thank you, Ian, that makes these particular circumstances absolutely crystal-clear. Well-stated and paints a bright light forward. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Source material.

2021-10-17 Thread stevea
That's what I'd say about starting up using JOSM again, Andrew: "start small." If you've already got it up and running (proper Java runtime environment installed, a good command-line to start it, if that's how you do it...), yes, it can be intimidating: like piloting a jet plane or an

Re: [talk-au] boundary=aboriginal_lands ( Was Re: admin_level, suburbs and rendering; should the order be updated?)

2021-11-30 Thread stevea
Looks like the issues are well-at-hand and being discussed. Cheers, ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] First Nations flags?

2021-12-17 Thread stevea
On Dec 17, 2021, at 1:52 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > On Sat, 18 Dec 2021 at 06:27, stevea wrote: > My goodness, there are hundreds of them! > Thought there would have been! > > Do you know if many have been mapped, & if so, as what? > > I can see that most of t

Re: [talk-au] First Nations flags?

2021-12-17 Thread stevea
On Dec 16, 2021, at 1:49 AM, Phil Wyatt wrote: > My feeling is these two flags should be changed to flag:type=indigenous on > the wiki rather than national given what has been found during this > discussion. > > I am also not confident in changing the wiki but I think there is consensus >

Re: [talk-au] First Nations flags?

2021-12-17 Thread stevea
Whoops, I made a mistake: I meant to say that Navajo "Chapter Houses" are over a hundred years old, not that there are over a hundred of them. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] First Nations flags?

2021-12-17 Thread stevea
On Dec 17, 2021, at 3:25 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > Thanks again everybody for your thoughts, & apologies if the subject is > boring to you! You are welcome / it is my distinct pleasure. No apology necessary, I don't find this boring in the least, it's quite interesting.

Re: [talk-au] First Nations flags?

2021-12-17 Thread stevea
On Dec 17, 2021, at 2:46 PM, Phil Wyatt wrote: > I have found one example where the Australian aboriginal flag looks to have > been mapped as flag:type=cultural Yes, see, I don't wholly disagree with flag:type=cultural, as that is "also" true. What seems to happen (quite often with First

Re: [talk-au] First Nations flags?

2021-12-17 Thread stevea
On Dec 16, 2021, at 2:19 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > Stevea, what do you have up there? Are there Apache & Navajo or any other > First Peoples flags? My goodness, there are hundreds of them! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_Native_Americans_in_the_United_States (there

Re: [talk-au] Help needed with OSM Inspector error

2022-01-04 Thread stevea
On Jan 4, 2022, at 3:51 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 at 16:51, stevea wrote: > But it is a bit better than it was five minutes ago. > > & has now disappeared from Inspector, so you obviously did something right :-) > > I'll also leave the bus rout

Re: [talk-au] US Trails Working Group

2022-01-03 Thread stevea
Mmm, mostly, I’d say, Warin. But let’s be careful not to encourage “only what my use cases are” too much. When you say “if it cannot be seen from a public, customer or permissive place then I don't really care to map it,” I ask for caution with this sort of attitude. This is too parochial

Re: [talk-au] Help needed with OSM Inspector error

2022-01-02 Thread stevea
-drive Yank and don’t know the route or local area, I defer to others to tidy this up to perfection. But it is a bit better than it was five minutes ago. SteveA > On Jan 2, 2022, at 10:37 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > > Been looking at OSM Inspector & it is showing an er

Re: [talk-au] US Trails Working Group

2022-01-02 Thread stevea
This is an identification of something I have noticed has been going on for some time (as Phil mentions, since the early '90s, before OSM's time): other mappers (governments, especially) "use" OSM as a reference, and OSM's data influence other GISs. In my case, I've been watching as certain

Re: [talk-au] Tagging "boundary" roads with addr:*

2022-01-03 Thread stevea
On Jan 3, 2022, at 7:47 PM, Andrew Davidson wrote: > On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 1:42 PM Andrew Hughes wrote: >> In the interest of stirring up a hornets nest (jokes). I'd like to know what >> could be said for tagging ways (streets/roads) with add:suburb (or >> addr:county...) where the suburb (or

Re: [talk-au] Use of pedestrian streets to imply route hierarchy

2021-11-20 Thread stevea
I repeat something I have said a number of times, say for example, about bicycle infrastructure / routes. Although it can be said about "pedestrian infrastructure / routes" pretty much one-for-one (as bicycle infrastructure / routes). It is this: There is "infrastructure" tagging, like

Re: [talk-au] Lots of identical changesets for toll roads (possibly incorrect).

2021-11-25 Thread stevea
I'm mixed in this reply and not quite able to invest the time right now on the necessary research to revert. On the one hand, the changeset is 3 months old and that's plenty of time for a snarl to result from revert, because of temporal drift. On the other hand, the geographical area is

Re: [talk-au] Unconnected ways

2021-11-25 Thread stevea
I've seen the solution Warin notes here in USA, too. "Walk along the beach" (somewhat lengthily) yet the tide removes all the sandy footprints of any implicit or explicit "trail." It's a route, though one that is invisible upon the ground. But not among people who say "yep, mate, I'm walking

[talk-au] Fwd: : Re: "Removing closed or illegal trails."

2021-10-30 Thread stevea
I've said this in other contexts and places and times: > Displaying a closed trail on a map (like OSM) does NOT cause people to > navigate that trail. Such behavior is completely up to the individual who > "concludes" from reading said map "hey, I'm going to hike that closed trail > anyway."

Re: [talk-au] : Re: "Removing closed or illegal trails."

2021-10-30 Thread stevea
something to be said for people taking responsibility for using technology (like maps), not expecting it to be "closed shut." Let's fix how people (and software, like routers) read our map, if there is something broken or deficient about that. Let's not censor our map. SteveA __

Re: [talk-au] Vic State Forest Boundary Files

2021-10-23 Thread stevea
epartments of transportation...) things DO slowly "watch each other" and blend into a harmony. It can take a decade, or forever. It unfolds as it unfolds, including here and now. Good on ya; keep up the great work. That Yank SteveA ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] admin_level, suburbs and rendering; should the order be updated?

2021-11-29 Thread stevea
_level scheme are great, and so far, not completely "solved." On the other hand, if these are indeed "sovereign," then you're in better luck than we are! Really, this can be a challenging problem to solve (where there are "overlapping" or &qu

Re: [talk-au] admin_level, suburbs and rendering; should the order be updated?

2021-11-29 Thread stevea
to make them do so). The other proposed changes to Australia's table? I step aside, good Australian OSM Contributors. SteveA [1] https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/United_States_admin_level [2] https://wiki.osm.org/wiki/United_States/Boundaries ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] First Nations flags?

2021-12-12 Thread stevea
Such stunningly beautiful flags you have in your corner of our globe! ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] US Trails Working Group

2022-01-10 Thread stevea
I will "go here," too. Years and years before this talk (I participated in the OSM-US sponsored Mappy Hour where this talk of "fragile trails" in the USA's southwestern deserts where "even a human footstep crunches to death slowly crystallizing soil" was presented) my local area had similar

Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap Wiki page Australian Tagging Guidelines has been changed by Aaronsta

2022-02-11 Thread stevea
On OSM's USA Bicycle Networks wiki [1], the introductory section posits a nice section on "What to map." (In the realm of bicycle routes / networks in the USA). We distinguish between "infrastructure tagging" and "route tagging." We talk about mapping SIGNED routes (and planned routes that

Re: [talk-au] OSM Notes

2022-03-07 Thread stevea
On Mar 7, 2022, at 12:41 AM, David Wales wrote: > ...I took the opportunity to belatedly add this. It’s like a good story with a wonderful happy ending. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Assistance with ongoing disagreement regarding intersections

2022-03-04 Thread stevea
This might be tangential to the discussion, on the other hand, it might be a kind of "hidden" or unstated assumption about how ways are "interpreted" in OSM to mean some implied given semantic, which in my opinion, they shouldn't do. So it could be revealing. Here goes: any given way should

Re: [talk-au] Help with bikeways on roads please

2022-03-15 Thread stevea
Yes, as someone very involved with bicycle routing (and infrastructure), thank you for noting the distinction that bicycle infrastructure tagging is ONE thing (and important) and bicycle route tagging (inclusion of usually the latter elements in a route relation) is ANOTHER (important) thing.

Re: [talk-au] OSM Notes

2022-03-06 Thread stevea
On Mar 2, 2022, at 1:18 AM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > Have they simply forgotten that they posted them, so a reminder would og > their memory; or as suggested, do they want somebody else to do the actual > mapping work for them? Let's not forget that a Note is often added by a "lesser

Re: [talk-au] train tour

2022-02-19 Thread stevea
On Feb 19, 2022, at 4:11 PM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Someone is mapping a 'train tour' into OSM. > Should such things be mapped? Yes. As someone who extensively maps rail infrastructure relations (route=railway) as well as both passenger routes (route=train, route=light_rail,

Re: [talk-au] Help - Node relocation

2022-02-17 Thread stevea
Yup, Lisa, what Thorsten said: it may be that somebody else has made an edit "in the meantime" and you are really seeing the nodes in the map as they are "right now." It may be that you are witnessing that many people can edit the same data. When this gets messy," it is called an "Edit

Re: [talk-au] Help - Node relocation

2022-02-17 Thread stevea
Lisa, also, please know that it can take different times for the various "zoom levels" of the map to show the same data. For example, zoomed way up close, all might look correct, then you zoom out (and it's OK), but you zoom out "one more level" and it's like it was yesterday, or two days ago.

Re: [talk-au] Help - Node relocation

2022-02-17 Thread stevea
On Feb 17, 2022, at 8:16 PM, Lisa wrote: > Thank you for such a quick response :) OSM: We aim to please! > When I go into Edit mode the old node that needs to be removed isn't > displaying, but when I am not in edit mode I can see it? > Am I using the wrong method of editing it? > Or do I

Re: [talk-au] Help - Node relocation

2022-02-17 Thread stevea
On Feb 17, 2022, at 7:51 PM, Lisa wrote: (a question) Hi Lisa: I'm assuming you are using the iD editor. It seems you know the difference between the new node being correct and the old node "needing to go," you can click on a node and delete it like this: Select the node with a single

Re: [talk-au] train tour

2022-02-20 Thread stevea
On Feb 20, 2022, at 2:41 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > On Sun, 20 Feb 2022 at 18:24, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Some of ours, such as the India Pacific, are tourist only, > > I thought the IP also delivered some freight / supplies to the "towns" > (alright - flyspecks!) across

Re: [talk-au] OSM Notes

2022-02-20 Thread stevea
Not boring at all; mighty impressive knock-down, actually. Go Team Oz! ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] train tour

2022-02-20 Thread stevea
Nice. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Map Note Flood

2022-04-03 Thread stevea
In the spirit of the OSM tenet of "be bold," and because you (all) have been so open about the real vandalism / destruction this one person (account) is doing to our map, I say "go ahead and revert his changesets yourself." I've done this before when "the clear and present danger" of vandalism

Re: [talk-au] Information source question - sorry kind of lengthy.

2022-02-02 Thread stevea
On Feb 2, 2022, at 12:41 AM, Bob Cameron wrote: > MR358 or Coulsons Creek Road between Willow Tree and Merriwa NSW is closed > for repair of major slippage as it crosses the Liverpool Ranges. > "Livetraffic" (Traffic for NSW govt site) says not reopening until late 2023. > A reference on that

Re: [talk-au] Information source question - sorry kind of lengthy.

2022-02-02 Thread stevea
On Feb 2, 2022, at 1:50 AM, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > The 'facts cannot be copyright' may be a USA thing that does not work > elsewhere. Don't know but I would not rely on it alone. While I am reasonably certain this is true in the USA, I don't believe that makes it necessarily

Re: [talk-au] Information source question - sorry kind of lengthy.

2022-02-02 Thread stevea
On Feb 2, 2022, at 2:23 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > So you're standing in the pub having a cold beer & the two blokes beside you > are talking. > ... > Does that count as Local Knowledge? Graeme, I'm not an attorney / solicitor, but what you describe is called "hearsay" and is not usually

Re: [talk-au] Tagging a house name

2022-02-03 Thread stevea
Dang auto-correct, of course that's addr:housename. And when there is "both," as it appears here, "that's a good question!" (Maybe enter both?) ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Tagging a house name

2022-02-04 Thread stevea
On Feb 4, 2022, at 12:48 AM, Dian Ågesson wrote: > Genuine question: > > If I go to Officeworks and get a sign printed with the name "Bob" and put it > on my letterbox, does that become the name of my house? I would think this is an EXCEEDINGLY "locally variable" question (and answer). To

Re: [talk-au] Tagging a house name

2022-02-03 Thread stevea
On Feb 3, 2022, at 10:12 PM, Mat Attlee wrote: > Whilst I was out surveying today I stumbled upon a building that had a street > number but also a house name, as just above the entrance and door number it > said Rivenhall. Now the question is should this be tagged as the name or >

Re: [talk-au] sac_scale [Was: Deletion of walking

2022-01-30 Thread stevea
> On Jan 30, 2022, at 8:16 PM, Phil Wyatt wrote: > I think Class 1 specifically mentions disability access so I would hate to > see that combined in any way with other classes. +1: I agree that "disability access explicit" and "how much experience you have as a bush-trail walker" are

Re: [talk-au] sac_scale [Was: Deletion of walking

2022-01-30 Thread stevea
an be an exception. Again, it must be understood that it is a "rating," rather than explicit values that mean specific things unto themselves. > On Jan 30, 2022, at 9:15 PM, Andrew Harvey wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jan 2022 at 15:27, stevea wrote: > But to conflate two wholly different seman

Re: [talk-au] "Bad" directions on Outback roads

2022-02-08 Thread stevea
On Feb 8, 2022, at 8:08 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > Do routers "read" such things as flood-prone, intermittent & seasonal? My "quick, off-the-cuff" answer would be: "better routers SHOULD." The real answer is very much "check your particular router."

Re: [talk-au] Betty's Burgers - fast food or restaurant?

2022-02-10 Thread stevea
Not to mention, burgers come with “Betty’s secret lube” (sauce) and can be “dressed any way you like.” OK, I’ll stop there. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Betty's Burgers - fast food or restaurant?

2022-02-10 Thread stevea
On Feb 9, 2022, at 4:12 AM, Peter Hardy wrote: > Betty's Burgers & Concrete Co? I've eaten at the one on Clarence St and the > one in Darling Harbour in Sydney (admittedly before *waves arms around* all > of this, so a couple years ago). They're fast food with dine-in tables - > order at the

Re: [talk-au] admin_level, suburbs and rendering; should the order be updated?

2022-04-10 Thread stevea
On Apr 10, 2022, at 5:53 PM, Dian Ågesson wrote: > Thanks Andrew, > > I'll make the adjustments to level 7 and 9 in the update guidelines as I > prepare them. > > I can also add the Districts of the ACT in at Level 5 as well, although > should it be documented for all states' counties? >

Re: [talk-au] admin_level, suburbs and rendering; should the order be updated?

2022-04-10 Thread stevea
See, what I'm getting at is saying ACT District is 5, yet 7 means District, well, that ambiguity trips me up. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] admin_level, suburbs and rendering; should the order be updated?

2022-04-10 Thread stevea
I'm mighty obliged to you for that excellent synopsis; thank you. Yes, at a certain point such "proposals" have to "be discussed amongst yourselves," of course, I've seen this and you are in a "certain stage" of such things. Then there is your primer on "Aussie 2, 4, 6," excellent. Yeh, the

Re: [talk-au] Tagging bicycle on footpath laws Was: Re: HighRouleur edits

2022-04-07 Thread stevea
On Apr 7, 2022, at 10:31 PM, Andrew Harvey wrote: > Well your router would need to look up the specific default whether that's > something in the routing engine configuration, pulled from the OSM wiki, or > pulled from the Victoria state relation def:* tags. Right, I agree: that's part of the

Re: [talk-au] Tagging bicycle on footpath laws Was: Re: HighRouleur edits

2022-04-07 Thread stevea
On Apr 7, 2022, at 9:53 PM, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > I think this is getting too much into mapping regulations, we could just have > no bicycle tag and leave it to data consumers to apply the regional defaults. > > What would that do to bike routing? There is bicycle infrastructure tagging

Re: [talk-au] JOSM multipolygon how-to?

2022-04-07 Thread stevea
On Apr 7, 2022, at 10:36 PM, Andrew Harvey wrote: > It means JOSM hasn't downloaded all the member ways, in one of the panels on > the right showing the relation, right clicking download incomplete members > will fetch them all. Yes, Graeme, if you see in the bottom left pane of JOSM's

Re: [talk-au] admin_level, suburbs and rendering; should the order be updated?

2022-04-08 Thread stevea
Speaking from personal experience as only one participant over many years (between say, 2012 with some agreement in 2015 and some refinement 2020) in a big country with a lot of states and dozens of their idiosyncrasies, getting admin_level values "right" can be a true, multi-year-long wrangle

Re: [talk-au] JOSM multipolygon how-to?

2022-04-08 Thread stevea
To be sure everyone reading knows, JOSM's buffer has amazing undo capacity, I believe "all the way back to the beginning of the session." And there's the fact you can edit, edit, play with things all day and night long, then you simply do not upload to the OSM servers (and into the fabric of

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