On 28/06/2012 10:28 PM, Steve Bennett wrote:
On Thu, Jun 28, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Sam Couter s...@couter.id.au wrote:
OSM HAS MADE THE CHOICE TO EXCLUDE MY CONTRIBUTIONS.
Now that the decisions have been made, the trenches have been dug, and
there is absolutely no possibility of anyone changing
need the OSMF
pointing out something you already knew about.
Simon
Am 31.03.2012 04:59, schrieb Richard Colless:
I did decline the new terms. And I was contacted, as I said, just
once, by someone trying to persuade me to change my mind. My point
was that OSM never contacted me to say
On 1/04/2012 10:08 AM, Steve Bennett wrote:
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 9:24 PM, Richard Collessfire...@ar.com.au wrote:
I followed the discussion with much interest, and only decided not to accept
the new CT's when I observed the rudeness with which the objections were
handled. The recent spate
On 1/04/2012 2:16 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 11:36 PM, Richard Collessfire...@ar.com.au wrote:
I'm not taking out any resentment on anybody. I'm simply choosing not to
participate. So don't say that I'm hurting anybody.. I'm quite happy for any
of my data to remain. If
Thank you, John. I couldn't have expressed it better.
Throughout this whole sorry story, I have only ever received ONE
communication form OSM. It was a begging letter asking me to reconsider.
If not for the discussion of the forum, I would not have even known
about the licence change. AI
On 4/02/2011 9:07 PM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/Christian%20Nold/diary/12968
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Correct, Elizabeth. Penrith is one of
On 21/12/2010 2:04 PM, Ian Sergeant wrote:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote:
Since taking a photo of something entails little or no "independent
intellectual effort",
On 21 December 2010
Do you have
any suggestions on how contours should be marked? eg every
10m elevation, or 5 or 50 or ... ?
In regard to contours, the maps from Contours Australia work
really well. For Garmin devices, they can be downloaded concurrently
with OSM maps. I have been using them in this way
John Smith wrote:
On 23 May 2010 21:50, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:
interested, I don't have any designs in mind, or any other planning.
Thanks to Sam for pointing out this page:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tshirt_competition
Also Harvey
John Smith wrote:
On 25 May 2010 19:39, Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au wrote:
You can also buy a special "Iron-On Transfer" paper at specialist paper
supply shops, and print your own design, using any standard inkjet printer.
Works really well, as long as yo
Liz wrote:
On Mon, 17 May 2010, Steve Bennett wrote:
Incidentally, to make sure I'm understanding what we're talking about,
you're talking about an area where water runs *into*, in order to seep
into the soil?
That would be a "retention basin" I think, and these drains
John Smith wrote:
This roundabout seems decorative to me
http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-35.921013,145.647941z=21t=knmd=20100122
It's obviously designed to co-ordinate with the herringbone pattern in
the adjacent parking lot. :-)
Richard
Liz wrote:
On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Ben Kelley wrote:
This is currently a real roundabout in OSM, but local knowledge tells me
that it is impossible to go around more than about 90 degrees
270 degrees
at this
intersection. That is, from any approach, you can turn
John Kitchener wrote:
For
me, the single most relevant issue is how does a mini roundabout
display
with Garmin turn by voice routing?
From
memory (I havent played with it recently), a mini roundabout
works in Garmin as a standard cross street. This is quite confusing
John Smith wrote:
On 25 April 2010 00:33, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote:
This is definitely not a mini_roundabout even if we had such in Australia which has previously been agreed we don't have them.
I wasn't in on that discussion. If we don't have them in
John Smith wrote:
On 10 April 2010 17:42, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote:
certainly there is now an M1 sign on the Hume Highway, just south of the
Illawarra Highway turnoff, and it still costs zilch.
1 or 31?
And does it really have an "M"? Most signs on the Hume
I don't control the software generating the GPS data. I use the
downloads from OSM Australia.
It's not just the navigation. The display doesn't show the correct
names either.
John Smith wrote:
On 8 April 2010 22:13, Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au wrote:
I was using my GPS
riptor.
The M4 motorway has just ceased to be a toll road (a few weeks ago),
but as far as I know, there are no plans to change its numerical
description.
Richard.
John Smith wrote:
On 8 April 2010 22:13, Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au wrote:
I had a look at the M5, and there i
I was using my GPS to navigate to an unfamiliar street today. Part of
the route included the M5 motorway in southwest Sydney. Usually, the
message on the GPS reads "East on Brown Street" or "Brown Street to
Greens Road". However, while on the M5, the message simply read "East
on road". Not
I've used waterway=drain for some of the other waterways in this area -
scroll north a bit from Franc's map to see the drain that runs between
Dunn Street and Topham Road. That's a real drain - even looks like the
picture in the Wiki. But I assume Franc is referring to the large
grassed area
Yes, but how would you map them? The ones at Narellan are about 50
metres wide, and I know of others that are wider. Too wide for a single
line like a concrete drain.
John Smith wrote:
On 6 April 2010 18:24, Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au wrote:
the blocks of houses
John Smith wrote:
Or at least getting them to tag what is signed, I've never seen a
"Saint George" bank, but I've seen plenty of St George banks... and
people changed the town of St George to Saint George...
If you are correcting the bank name, it is actually "St.George" -
includes the
, Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au wrote:
This link has a download for Caltex and Caltex Woolworths servos, in CSV
format:
http://apps.nowwhere.com.au/caltex/austlocator/search.aspx
All 1817 points were added to the database, although there were 9
pairs of points that shared
David Murn wrote:
All 1817 points were added to the database, although there were 9
pairs of points that shared the same location even though the address
details given were different, bad geocoding...
I must have missed it, but was permission granted by the content owners,
Sam Wilson wrote:
So the ABS defines boundaries with coordinates, then? Rather than roads
etc. (as, say, electoral boundaries are defined)?
You're quite right, there's no reason to change the ABS data if it is,
by definition, correct. I guess I'd just been thinking that it was
number. I don't know if the mapping can be adjusted to show other
fields - maybe Matt from OSM Aus could answer that.
Richard
David Murn wrote:
On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 23:06 +1100, Richard Colless wrote:
But that probably won't show up when you do a waypoint search - it
certainly won't o
This link has a download for Caltex and Caltex Woolworths servos, in
CSV format:
http://apps.nowwhere.com.au/caltex/austlocator/search.aspx
Anyone care to add it to the database? That one's outside my skills at
this stage.
Richard
John Smith wrote:
On 8 February 2010 20:32, David Murn
But that probably won't show up when you do a waypoint search - it
certainly won't on my Etrex. So the best coding is using "name=Coles
Express" or "name=Woolworths discount" (or whatever the Woolies ones
are called). That show up as soon as you do a search for Fuel services.
Richard
Steve
Not so, John. We regularly shop at Woolworths, and when our grocery
bill (or LiquorLand purchase) is more than $30, we get a fuel discount
voucher printed on the bottom of the docket. We don't use loyalty cards/
Richard
John Henderson wrote:
John Smith wrote:
The easiest is operator =Shell, name = Coles Express Campbelltown
(discount voucher) or operator - Shell , name = Shell Luddenham (no
vouchers). This is in accord with the actual trading names. I think
there is a similar situation for Woolworths/Caltex servos.
Richard.
John Smith wrote:
I spent a couple of days in Canberra recently. Getting around via the
OSM maps was great - everything there and accurate.
But, when I wanted to find a church on Sunday morning, I could only
find one, and sorry, wrong denomination. Maybe a few more churches (all
faiths) could be added to the
This could have been an accident, not malicious damage.
When I was editing streets in my home suburb, mainly just adding in
street names, I needed to cut a street at a node because it changes its
name. Somewhere along the way, the street disappeared. When I edited it
(using Potlatch), the
Richard
Colless wrote:
The route instructions asked me to travel to
west to Birch Street, make a right turn, proceed north to Debrincat
Avenue, then turn left into Glossop and proceed south to the service
station -travel right round the block instead of using the service
station
On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Sam Couter s...@couter.id.au wrote:
Trying to drive or route to disconnected nodes is
nonsensical.
A question, then: what proportion of OSM POI's are disconnected?
Should we be taking steps (in terms of mapping guidelines) to ensure
POI
I've been testing routing instructions on my Garmin for routes that I
use regularly - makes great quality control, as it shows up badly drawn
roundabouts, incorrect streets, all sorts of rubbish.
A while back I tried to navigate to a BP service station from only a
few hundred metres away. You
John Smith wrote:
2010/1/12 Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au:
I thought of that. I just don't like using sledgehammers on walnuts.
The service road exists in reality, so it's just a matter of improving
the map to reflect reality more closely.
In fact a lot of servos
I was reading some threads on another forum, and found this link:
http://www.poidb.com/default.asp
It's the Australian Points of Interest Database. Has all sorts of
interesting POI's, including the BP service stations, Woolworths, Aldi
and lots of general interest stuff.
I downloaded a list
John Smith wrote:
2010/1/9 Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au:
I have the file. Now, how do I upload this stuff into OSM?
You don't the license is incompatible with OSM...
http://www.poidb.com/legal/terms-of-use.asp
"No commercial use of this site is permitted
John Smith wrote:
2010/1/9 Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au:
Thanks John. Had so much trouble trying to download the list in bulk that I
didn't go through the rest of the site.
We have most if not all the BP locations imported the other day, most
haven't been
Steve Bennett wrote:
Interesting. What strikes me about the street names thing is that in
general, there's actually no way to prove it, other than by the
person's own admission. Whereas with copyright breach in general, you
can show a similarity between two expressions of an idea. But
John Smith wrote:
2010/1/5 Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au:
I was testing the Garmin's route instructions on some familiar roads today.
Normally it says "SW on Northern Road to Roundabout", followed by "2nd exit
on roundabout" or similar. but one p
John Smith wrote:
2010/1/6 Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au:
The roundabout was named as "The Northern Road" in the OSM data - the same
name as the road to the north and south of it.
I meant in reality, most roundabouts aren't named, although some are
John Henderson wrote:
I go to the local tourist information place and start asking for names.
They give me a photocopy of a street directory which shows all the
names. But this photocopy has a copyright notice.
Can I enter names from that page into OSM for the already-mapped ways?
I
Liz wrote:
Be brave
nothing ventured, nothing gained.
a circular way (usually)
one way (get that bit right)
highway=type
junction=roundabout
may have a name, but not often
join the other roads on
Following on from this and some earlier discussion about naming
roundabouts.
I was
The trip to Timor Caves went well - now have "tourist" POI's for four
of the caves, although it's a brave tourist that will use them.
Also managed to survey most of the streets of Murrurundi, NSW.
During this job, I noticed some interesting POI's. Just North of
Murrurundi, there is a speed
highway=unclassified
good deal of discussion about this
so another point of view is "residential" for those industrial area streets
and unclassified is a road classification below tertiary in rural areas
(there is no conclusion about this, whether this
John Smith wrote:
2009/12/27 John Henderson snow...@gmx.com:
Richard Colless wrote:
I was trying out the latest routable OSM maps, and came across a couple
of odd items. One was a roundabout where the Etrex told me to go round
it in the wrong direction - anti
Franc Carter wrote:
Hi,
Somethng that struck me recently is that in areas with NearMap
coverage there is potential to do a much better job of mapping railway
lines - i.e lines, sidings etc could be added.
What's people opinions on doing so ?
cheers
I've been driving around some
John Smith wrote:
2009/12/26 Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au:
What's people opinions on doing so ?
More information the better :)
Just because it exists in the database doesn't mean it always has to
be rendered, different renderings suit different people, which
I was trying out the latest routable OSM maps, and came across a couple
of odd items. One was a roundabout where the Etrex told me to go round
it in the wrong direction - anti-clockwise. It's the only one that gave
me the wrong direction.
I assume that there is something wrong in the way the
additional links but the site is a pig to navigate around)
Matt
Richard Colless wrote:
I'm new to OSM, having recently replaced my
12 year old Magellan GPS with a Garmin Etrex Legend CX.
I've been following with some interest the discussion about roundabouts
and how
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