Re: [talk-au] Tagging Trucks (hgv) "Use low gears"

2023-01-17 Thread Ross Scanlon
Andrew beat me to it. There is a speed restriction associated with the "Must use low gear signs" under the road rules. It states: "you must drive in a gear that is low enough to limit the speed of your vehicle without using the foot brake." Unfortunately it's not a defined limit although

Re: [talk-au] Wadbilliga Road south east NSW marked 4WD only

2019-06-18 Thread Ross Scanlon
It may be shown as tertiary but I'd be cautious about removing 4wd_only based on the NSW basemap only. Have you had a look at the NSW imagery for that area or checked any other form of road conditions eg.

Re: [talk-au] new OpenStreetCam competition

2019-03-19 Thread Ross Scanlon
Hi Martijin, When an upload completes how long should it take to show on the openstreetcam.org website? Cheers Ross On 19/03/19 01:08, Martijn van Exel wrote: Howdy. We had a good time with the first OpenStreetCam competition, the winners received their prizes, and we decided to hold

Re: [talk-au] Editing speed limit in Australia

2019-03-08 Thread Ross Scanlon
Welcome to oz roads. I had a look on street view and can not see any 60 signs along Warwick Road they are all 70. Cheers Ross On 09/03/19 10:20, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: On Sat, 9 Mar 2019 at 08:48, Ross Scanlon <mailto:i...@4x4falcon.com>> wrote: What you've said i

Re: [talk-au] Editing speed limit in Australia

2019-03-08 Thread Ross Scanlon
| In some situations, especially on off-ramps, there isn’t any speed limit sign at the beginning of the link only at the end of it or in the | middle. I observed that in these situations the speed limit of the motorway is added on the first part of the link. Because this is the | predominant

Re: [talk-au] Issues with a user putting back incorrect tags

2017-09-08 Thread Ross Scanlon
Contact the Data Working Group On 09/09/17 10:34, Philip Mallis wrote: Hi all, I am seeking advice on how to proceed with an issue around Melbourne and Victoria regarding tagging of abandoned/disused railway stations and railways. The Outer Circle Line is a railway that has been almost

Re: [talk-au] When is a Road a Track

2017-02-10 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 11/02/17 12:21, Warin wrote: On 11-Feb-17 11:28 AM, Ross Scanlon wrote: On 11/02/17 07:00, Warin wrote: The NSW LPT base map is particularly helpful for road classifications .. tracks, unclassified, tertiary and paths. It is in some ways better than a survey as it looks to take

Re: [talk-au] When is a Road a Track

2017-02-10 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 11/02/17 07:00, Warin wrote: The NSW LPT base map is particularly helpful for road classifications .. tracks, unclassified, tertiary and paths. It is in some ways better than a survey as it looks to take into account the importance to the community and that is very hard to determine by

Re: [talk-au] Tagging for Pipeline Reserves

2017-02-07 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 08/02/17 11:17, Warin wrote: On 08-Feb-17 12:10 PM, Ross Scanlon wrote: On 08/02/17 11:00, Warin wrote: Some pipe lines cross farms, residential areas ... so ? I will ask on the tagging list as it is not Australian specific. I note the pipeline is not visible ... I assume underground

Re: [talk-au] Tagging for Pipeline Reserves

2017-02-07 Thread Ross Scanlon
not the type of pipeline. On 08-Feb-17 11:31 AM, Ross Scanlon wrote: park=pipeline_reserve On 08/02/17 10:29, Adam Horan wrote: My local area (and I'm sure many others) have lots of pipeline reserves. I'm really not sure how to tag these. They appear to have public access for walking

Re: [talk-au] Tagging for Pipeline Reserves

2017-02-07 Thread Ross Scanlon
, Ross Scanlon <i...@4x4falcon.com <mailto:i...@4x4falcon.com>> wrote: park=pipeline_reserve On 08/02/17 10:29, Adam Horan wrote: My local area (and I'm sure many others) have lots of pipeline reserves. I'm really not sure how to tag these. They appear to

Re: [talk-au] Parks Vic data

2017-02-07 Thread Ross Scanlon
capad On 08/02/17 09:49, nwastra wrote: Hi I have found many problems with the Heathcote-Graytown National Park in Victoria. Is there a place from which I can download the boundary as we have done with the NSW LPI NPWSReserve - public/NSW_Administrative_Boundaries, so I sort out where the

[OSM-talk] agri.openstreetmap.org not working

2017-01-28 Thread Ross Scanlon
All the imagery hosted on openstreetmap servers as listed here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Aerial_imagery#Imagery_hosted_on_OSM_servers Except for the South African imagery. Cheers Ross ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

[talk-au] agri.openstreetmap.org not working

2017-01-28 Thread Ross Scanlon
All the imagery hosted on openstreetmap servers as listed here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Aerial_imagery#Imagery_hosted_on_OSM_servers Except for the South African imagery. Cheers Ross ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Advice on Tags in a Hamlet

2017-01-15 Thread Ross Scanlon
Split the way at the railway tracks, add name="Smith Street", add alt_name="Lalbert - Kerang Road" to the section west of the railway. Like this: http://map.fosm.org/browse/way/102503479#map/18/-35.676/143.377 Cheers Ross On 16/01/17 10:30, Simon Slater wrote: G'day all, We needed

Re: [talk-au] AGRI.openstreetmap.org not working

2014-11-30 Thread Ross Scanlon
Still not available. Any update on when it's likely to be back. Cheers Ross On 17/10/14 08:40, Ross Scanlon wrote: Any update on when this will be fixed? Cheers Ross On 10/08/14 23:54, Grant Slater wrote: Hi All, Sorry... Not yet been able to get access to the broken machine

[talk-au] AGRI.openstreetmap.org not working

2014-07-05 Thread Ross Scanlon
As the title says agri.openstreetmap.org does not appear to be working. Cheers Ross ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] VicMap in Potlatch2

2014-05-13 Thread Ross Scanlon
Thanks. It can also be used in josm. Edit-Preferences-WMS/TMS add a new tms http://whoots.mapwarper.net:80/tms/{zoom}/{x}/{y}/WEB_MERCATOR/http://api.maps.vic.gov.au/geowebcacheWM/service/wms?VERSION=1.1.1TILED=true Cheers Ross On 14/05/14 11:08, Steve Bennett wrote: Hi all, I've just

Re: [talk-au] QLD GTFS Data Imports

2014-02-23 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 24/02/14 12:01, waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: Bummer that you can't get in contact with morb_au Have you tried twitter? A search there shows he's still around but possibly not really interested in osm any more. His first diary post gives a hint to the dis-interest. Cheers Ross

Re: [talk-au] Motorway edits in NSW / Vic

2014-02-16 Thread Ross Scanlon
If DWG has put a block then he can not edit until responding to it to the DWG. That's not to say he can not make another user name. Cheers Ross On 17/02/14 09:27, Jason Ward wrote: It still leaves correction of errors up to the community I'm afraid and if he ignores that message in the user

Re: [talk-au] Motorway edits in NSW / Vic

2014-02-15 Thread Ross Scanlon
Contact the DWG, get them to put a block on this user. Then you can do something about the edits. This is similar to previous vandalism in the Perth area by the likes of user Brendan_Cherry Cheers Ross On 16/02/14 13:23, Leon Kernan wrote: Problem is that some of these were tagged under

Re: [talk-au] Motorway edits in NSW / Vic

2014-02-15 Thread Ross Scanlon
If the DWG does not respond then try contacting Frederik Ramm at; frederik at remote dot org He is usually very helpful with instances of vandalism. Cheers Ross On 16/02/14 13:46, Ross Scanlon wrote: Contact the DWG, get them to put a block on this user. Then you can do something about

Re: [talk-au] Address tagging guidelines for Australia

2014-01-19 Thread Ross Scanlon
the tags as literally as possible (in that case, I would go addr:city=Brisbane and addr:suburb=The Gap). What would be the best way to decide on a convention so we can add guidelines for OSM-AU? Cheers Stéphane (chtfn) On 19/01/14 11:04, Ross Scanlon wrote: I'd suggest you check this page http

Re: [talk-au] Address tagging guidelines for Australia

2014-01-17 Thread Ross Scanlon
I came to this because I was asking myself: - Are we using QLD or Queensland for addr:state? https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:addr:state - What is our definition of suburb vs city for the tags? (e.g. The Gap vs Brisbane. Postal addresses only contain The Gap, and it is referred as a suburb

Re: [talk-au] Australian Tagging Guidelines

2014-01-07 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 08/01/14 10:26, Warin wrote: Hi, Some thoughts on Australian Tagging Guidelines - OpenStreetMap Wiki.htm First it is very good - covers most common issues. In fact I'd call it excellent. But .. there could be some additions? How do you tag a 'Gully'? .. I've used waterway=stream

Re: [talk-au] Murchison - Square Kilometer Telescope not showing on Garmin maps

2013-12-30 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 31/12/13 10:17, Warin wrote: Hi, I've noted that some (if not all) of the Australian Square Kilometer Telescope north east of Murchison WA is entered (and has been for some time) in OSM but it does not show up on my Garmin maps. 26.7S 116.7E entries are key man_made value radio telescope

Re: [talk-au] Sydney: Epping M2 + Devlins Creek - bridge + levels

2013-12-19 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 19/12/13 11:07, Warin wrote: Hi, I though I changed this .. Where Devlins Creek goes under the M2 The creek is at 'gound level' - as are the path to the east and the 'cycleway' (actually cycle + foot + emergency vehicles) to the west. The M2 is on a small bridge at that point .. you may

Re: [talk-au] Adding residential properties?

2013-12-07 Thread Ross Scanlon
to reference the bing imagery to the gps traces or roads marked as source= survey or nearmap or agri. Cheers Ross On Sat 07 Dec 2013 15:29:54 EST, Ross Scanlon wrote: But where should the node go? Referring to here http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_feature/associatedAddress it seems like

Re: [talk-au] Adding residential properties?

2013-12-07 Thread Ross Scanlon
a couple meter shift in this area, so things line up but the roads are offset a bit - I can't decide whether to recenter my points around the roads or not, since presumably if it's ever correct a big shift would then line everything up nicely. On Sat 07 Dec 2013 15:29:54 EST, Ross Scanlon wrote

Re: [talk-au] Adding residential properties?

2013-12-06 Thread Ross Scanlon
make sense provided I stuck address points at all the entrances? On 05/12/13 21:07, Ross Scanlon wrote: I'd suggest you read these wiki pages: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Address My personal opinion is that the address should be on a separate

Re: [talk-au] Adding residential properties?

2013-12-05 Thread Ross Scanlon
I'd suggest you read these wiki pages: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Addresses http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Address My personal opinion is that the address should be on a separate node at the entrance to the property. This is preferred for disability access programs. It also

Re: [talk-au] South Australia - Public Transport / OSM data

2013-11-28 Thread Ross Scanlon
- so there are clear examples of both the public and commercial sectors benefiting from this sort of open data. On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com mailto:i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: ·Street Address Limitations ( missing streets and street numbers) Make

Re: [talk-au] South Australia - Public Transport / OSM data

2013-11-27 Thread Ross Scanlon
·Street Address Limitations ( missing streets and street numbers) Make a dataset like this available for inclusion in openstreetmap http://www.data.vic.gov.au/raw_data/vicmap-address/4875 Would resolve the above fairly rapidly. Cheers Ross ·walking paths data not included across many of

Re: [talk-au] loading JOSM

2013-10-30 Thread Ross Scanlon
Revert to java 6 The message on the start up screen has been there for ages and it's sometime soon. I'm using ubuntu 12.04 as well and have no problems running josm with java 6. Cheers Ross On 27/10/13 11:27, Arthur Geeson wrote: Hi, Firstly a thank you to the replies I got about the

Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 76, Issue 8

2013-10-14 Thread Ross Scanlon
licensing (Ross Scanlon) 2. Re: South Australia Suburb Boundries (Daniel O'Connor) -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 08:57:13 +1000 From: Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com mailto:i...@4x4falcon.com To: talk

Re: [talk-au] vicmap data licensing

2013-10-13 Thread Ross Scanlon
Cut the data into small chunks (0.25 x 0.25 deg). Load each chunk it into josm. Download the relevant area to a separate layer. Compare with what is already there. Expect to spend a least 2 hours with each chunk depending on what data your adding. Cheers Ross On 11/10/13 06:37, Li wrote:

Re: [talk-au] ISP caching problems with JOSM ?

2013-09-15 Thread Ross Scanlon
Sounds more like the caching within JOSM. Cheers Ross On 12/09/13 23:15, Grant Slater wrote: Hi Ian, The api.openstreetmap.org map data servers send no-cache headers and proxy/caches should therefore NOT be caching the results... But some ISPs are too aggressive with their caching. Make

Re: [OSM-talk] Dirt Roads in Mapnik, default render in OSM

2013-08-24 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 24/08/13 17:46, Lester Caine wrote: Notice the broken casing on the sides of some of the roads. If what you are talking about is the change in style on the roads to the right, then how were they generated as they do not appear on the main database? It's nice to see I can just cut and paste

Re: [OSM-talk] Dirt Roads in Mapnik, default render in OSM

2013-08-24 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 24/08/13 19:39, Lester Caine wrote: Ross Scanlon wrote: Notice the broken casing on the sides of some of the roads. If what you are talking about is the change in style on the roads to the right, then how were they generated as they do not appear on the main database? It's nice to see I can

Re: [OSM-talk] Dirt Roads in Mapnik, default render in OSM

2013-08-23 Thread Ross Scanlon
I think this is the type of rendering that Darren is looking for: informationfreeway.org/?lat=-20.374lon=148.633zoom=15layers=00F000B0 You'll have to copy and paste the link. Notice the broken casing on the sides of some of the roads. Cheers Ross On 24/08/13 03:58, Darren Biggs wrote: That

Re: [talk-au] Incorporating public information into OSM - Legal situation

2013-08-20 Thread Ross Scanlon
Did they confirm with Geoscience that the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia is compatible with ODBL? This is one of the reservations that some of us had with changing to ODBL. Also you will find it's not that easy. It takes a significant amount of time and effort to include this

Re: [talk-au] JOSM uploads past 2000 points

2013-06-25 Thread Ross Scanlon
Hi I am all to aware of the 2000 node limit with OSM but when using JOSM to create lakes as multipolygons from multiple ways it is easier to create the ways, link them a multipolygon relationship, tag properties and upload. JOSM then creates a change set and gives five tries and fails so if you

Re: [talk-au] JOSM uploads past 2000 points

2013-06-25 Thread Ross Scanlon
a similar problem. So I align lakes in Polatch 2 and all works well. Finding JOSM very powerful but still very much a newbie with it. Cheers Brett Russell PO Box 94 Launceston Tas. 7250 Australia 0419 374 971 On 25/06/2013, at 1:25 PM, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com

Re: [talk-au] JOSM uploads past 2000 points

2013-06-25 Thread Ross Scanlon
Australia 0419 374 971 On 25/06/2013, at 1:25 PM, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com mailto:i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: Hi I am all to aware of the 2000 node limit with OSM but when using JOSM to create lakes as multipolygons from multiple ways it is easier

Re: [talk-au] Tagging dirt and 4x4 roads - new approach

2012-12-18 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 16/12/12 16:50, Russell Edwards wrote: Could I ask a newbie question on this topic? I want to update some roads that are 4wd-only in certain sections. Any new approach aside, what is the best way to do this -- a) what tag do I use, and b) how do I handle the changing traversibility -

Re: [talk-au] tagging 4WD and dirt roads - I give up.

2012-11-13 Thread Ross Scanlon
For rendering, no surface= or surface=asphalt/concrete/paved would produce the current rendering. Any other surface= would produce a dashed line/casing. To me that's a relatively simple distinction that would be more appealing to those maintaining the renderers. I've been working on this

Re: [talk-au] traffic lights on dual carriageway intersections

2012-11-03 Thread Ross Scanlon
And the only area it's done like this is in Melbourne. Cheers Ross On 03/11/12 17:03, John Henderson wrote: Steer wrote: I have been trying to find the accepted practise for mapping traffic lights where dual carriageways interest. There is much discussion on various sites, but most seems to

Re: [talk-au] [Imports] Importing locality names from GeoScience Australia dataset.

2012-10-28 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 27/10/12 18:52, Chris Barham wrote: Hi, On Sat, Oct 27, 2012 at 6:48 AM, Li Xia lisxia1...@gmail.com mailto:lisxia1...@gmail.com wrote: SNIP 1. Can anyone suggest tags other than the following? name:different place:locality source: © Commonwealth of Australia (GeoScience

Re: [talk-au] 4wd_only Tag - is it the right choice ?

2012-10-28 Thread Ross Scanlon
You point out the problem with this: tracktype is ignored on everything except highway=track You would have to modify this in the rendering anyway. As 4wd_only can apply to any highway= tag it is more appropriate. From memory this was part of the original discussion when 4wd_only was

Re: [talk-au] Dirt Roads

2012-10-25 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 26/10/12 08:43, Andrew Harvey wrote: On 22/10/12 11:20, Ross Scanlon wrote: Mapnik 2 will allow tagging of 4wd_only=recommended and 4wd_only=yes. An example of 4wd_only=yes here: http://map.4x4falcon.com/?zoom=14lat=-20.73023lon=116.99701layers=B0F The 4wd_only=recommended is similar

Re: [talk-au] Dirt Roads

2012-10-23 Thread Ross Scanlon
Mapnik 2 will allow tagging of 4wd_only=recommended and 4wd_only=yes. An example of 4wd_only=yes here: http://map.4x4falcon.com/?zoom=14lat=-20.73023lon=116.99701layers=B0F The 4wd_only=recommended is similar but shows 4WD Recommended. It is a trivial matter with Mapnik 2 to use text

Re: [talk-au] Dirt Roads

2012-10-23 Thread Ross Scanlon
I'm happy for you to use that link as a reference. I'll refrain from commenting on the remainder of that para. When the 4wd_only tagging was introduced it was attempted to get this included in the mapping but there was reluctance to do so. Like most proposals it did not have a rendering

Re: [talk-au] Aligning steets

2012-09-21 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 20/09/12 22:30, Stephen Hope wrote: I'm not saying that a mini-roundabout isn't a roundabout, it is, and all the normal signs and laws apply. What it also is, however, is traversable. If you have a vehicle that cannot go around it, because it is too large, then you're allowed to go over it.

Re: [talk-au] Tasmanian Survey Marks

2012-09-19 Thread Ross Scanlon
something that will enable me to check my Garmin 62s' accuracy and give the ability to align Bing when I find them on the ground providing that they can be seen from Bing. Be great if they are in nice circles of I doubt if you'll see them on bing as most survey points are way too small. You'd

Re: [talk-au] Aligning steets

2012-09-19 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 19/09/12 19:28, Michael James wrote: On 09/19/2012 04:35 PM, Ross Scanlon wrote: They are not mini-roundabouts if you can not drive over them. Look here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:highway%3Dmini_roundabout Also read the Australian Tagging Guidelines here

Re: [talk-au] Introduction

2012-07-28 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 29/07/12 00:58, Andrew Allison wrote: Hello: I'm doing some arm chair mapping of Broome and surrounding area from Canada. I'd appreciate a quick review from someone more familiar with the local area. I might be mistaking dirt tracks for dried creek beds. Any mentoring would

Re: [talk-au] Redaction progress

2012-07-19 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 20/07/12 09:43, Simon Poole wrote: As all probably know we have two large areas where data had to be removed, Poland and Australia besides a number of smallish hotspots. I would think it would be a really good idea to set up a HOT tasking server (no idea about it inner workings and if it

Re: [talk-au] User hardsoft's remapping attempts

2012-04-07 Thread Ross Scanlon
Maybe you need to send them a message directly and point them to these pages: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Editing_Standards_and_Conventions http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice Cheers Ross On 08/04/12 07:01, Michael James wrote: I would have introduced myself normally

Re: [OSM-talk] automated abbreviation changes?!

2012-03-23 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 23/03/12 21:04, Jean-Marc Liotier wrote: On 23/03/2012 13:47, Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr) wrote: On 3/23/2012 8:36 AM, Mikel Maron wrote: User chdr (http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/chdr) seems to be running a script to automatically replace street name abbreviations with the full word. so

Re: [OSM-talk] Finding untagged dead-ends

2012-02-15 Thread Ross Scanlon
/me is waiting for someone to make the obvious and completely useless suggestion of some bonkers noexit hierarchy. noexit=bus, noexit=mouse, noexit=elephant, noexit=blue_whale noexit=flying_pig ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] 1st few silly question

2012-01-25 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 25/01/12 19:14, Don Thomas wrote: 1/ In our area there are a number of small sections of road subject to flooding, generally they are at small bridges/ causeways and the like. I can't work out how they should be marked, can some one advice me please? Are these fords or just sections of road

Re: [talk-au] maxspeed removal

2012-01-08 Thread Ross Scanlon
I've removed the maxspeed tags from about 1000 roads in Redcliffe (Brisbane) with changeset http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/10338587 Hi, Can you just explain this a little bit further? My understanding is it is a pretty specific set of these maxspeed changes we are

Re: [talk-au] maxspeed removal

2012-01-08 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 09/01/12 11:51, Richard Weait wrote: On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 9:57 PM, Ian Sergeantinas66+...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 January 2012 13:12, Richard Weaitrich...@weait.com wrote: I've removed the maxspeed tags from about 1000 roads in Redcliffe (Brisbane) with changeset

Re: [talk-au] maxspeed removal

2012-01-08 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 09/01/12 13:47, Richard Weait wrote: On Sun, Jan 8, 2012 at 11:06 PM, Ross Scanloni...@4x4falcon.com wrote: On 09/01/12 11:51, Richard Weait wrote: Shall I revert? I think it would be best if you reverted. Done. You want to take a go at clearing some of these up? Are they

Re: [talk-au] Apology and Re: Mass revert now??

2012-01-07 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 08/01/12 08:20, Nick Hocking wrote: David wrote I can always retag from my records after the split Hi David, It does seem that most of your work will survive. Those maxspeed edits done by bots (under the userid of JohnSmith or Rosscoe) will disappear without harm in April. A lot of them are

Re: [talk-au] Apology and Re: Mass revert now??

2012-01-07 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 08/01/12 11:11, Peter Watson wrote: If a way is cut to add a bridge or whatever the second part becomes yours as V1 but the nodes will still be the original contributors. Hence a seemingly good way with red nodes. This is outlined on the wiki under remapping. This is new information, ie the

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

2012-01-05 Thread Ross Scanlon
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Mark Pulleymrpul...@lizzy.com.au wrote: How should I mark 4wd trails? Thanks, highway=track; surface=unpaved; if 4wd only then also add 4wd_only=yes From experience I've found this is really hard to determine. Often the road quality varies and I don't really

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

2012-01-05 Thread Ross Scanlon
But not what constitutes a 4WD-only track, or how to indicate the difference between 4WD-only signposted and I don't think a 2WD can drive here, which as I've pointed out isn't accurate, or how to indicate only modified vehicles with diff locks, upgraded suspension and winches are suitable, or

Re: [talk-au] Indian Ocean Drive south of Cervantes

2011-12-31 Thread Ross Scanlon
Hi, Although you are probably correct, I'd suggest you don't modify this until someone with local knowledge looks at it and/or confirms with you this is correct. It also looks that this may be some more vandalism by Q4004. Cheers Ross On 31/12/11 01:25, Michael wrote: Hi all, at

Re: [talk-au] Remapping Sydney's railways

2011-12-22 Thread Ross Scanlon
The nodes would be fine if not from a ct-declining contributor. If not then they need to be replaced. Cheers Ross On 23/12/11 14:31, Ben Johnson wrote: Thanks Ben that's a great idea. I'll keep whatever nodes I can and extrapolate from there. I really didn't want this raising old wounds,

Re: [talk-au] I deleted a few locality boundaries...

2011-12-18 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 18/12/11 16:43, Andrew Harvey wrote: Where do these official gazetted boundaries come from? On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 7:32 PM, Ross Scanloni...@4x4falcon.com wrote: Wait for an import of the oficial gazetted boundaries. Australian Bureau of Statistics Cheers Ross

Re: [talk-au] I deleted a few locality boundaries...

2011-12-18 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 18/12/11 17:07, Sam Wilson wrote: Yes, I've often wondered the same: if they're officially defined as following particular roads etc. and then those roads move, do the boundaries move also? No. Do a search through the archives of the list and you'll find this somewhere. Also, there

Re: [talk-au] I deleted a few locality boundaries...

2011-12-18 Thread Ross Scanlon
Yep, quite true. That said, given the complete failure of the most other government agencies to release the real gazetted boundaries under a free license, having the ABS data I think is better than nothing, unless you can obtain more fine grain data from on the ground surveys. Licensing aside

Re: [talk-au] I deleted a few locality boundaries...

2011-12-18 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 19/12/11 08:38, Ben Kelley wrote: What happens where the current boundaries have been edited since the initial import? e.g. Where the boundary follows some geographical feature that is difficult to survey, like a river. Often the river tags have been added to the ABS data way. Removing the

Re: [talk-au] Re-entering data to avoid licensing failure

2011-12-14 Thread Ross Scanlon
That's fine so long as you are not transferring any tags from the original way. See Frederik's comments to NE2 re this, on the osm-talk list. Mind you, you've got a lot to do in AU. Cheers Ross On 14/12/11 13:56, John Henderson wrote: As time and opportunity arises, I've started

Re: [talk-au] Re-entering data to avoid licensing failure

2011-12-14 Thread Ross Scanlon
Problem with this is that you are breaching copyright. This is the same as what the user did with the data in Sydney and it was removed by the data working group. It's also what Frederik was discussing on the talk list in regards to NE2. You are not resolving the issue of the original data

Re: [talk-au] Maxspeed bots

2011-12-06 Thread Ross Scanlon
to fix it but the pre licence change lockout prevented this Ross, that's not my understanding of the situation at all. On 25 August 2010 14:40, Ross Scanlon info at 4x4falcon.com http://4x4falcon.com wrote: John are you going to do this? JohnSmith replied I'm stuck on 3G atm, I may

Re: [talk-au] Intersections

2011-11-28 Thread Ross Scanlon
there tonight. On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:55 PM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com mailto:snow...@gmx.com wrote: On 27/11/11 11:59, Ross Scanlon wrote: Just reading this: https://docs.google.com/a/__osmfoundation.org/document/__pub?id=__1zMm5p70Hd6dalxte42DVCGAW-__C9Muy0pjHCZ8xWJT4w

Re: [talk-au] [OpenStreetMap] intersections

2011-11-28 Thread Ross Scanlon
Ok lets look at one intersection: http://www.openstreetmap.org/edit?editor=potlatch2lat=-37.757227lon=145.354724zoom=18 This will open in potlatch 2 or you can view it here on the map: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-37.75735lon=145.355389zoom=18 ways 136173430, 13673431, 13673419,

[talk-au] Intersections

2011-11-26 Thread Ross Scanlon
Just reading this: https://docs.google.com/a/osmfoundation.org/document/pub?id=1zMm5p70Hd6dalxte42DVCGAW-C9Muy0pjHCZ8xWJT4w While people still continue to map garbage like these intersections: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-37.882577lon=145.276362zoom=18 then people will not want to use

[talk-au] Mini Roundabouts.

2011-11-02 Thread Ross Scanlon
Just came across this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-32.651744lon=115.86618zoom=18 There is no way in the world that this is a mini roundabout. Here is the nearmap imagery for it, I know it can't be used now for osm but using it here for reference:

Re: [talk-au] Princes Highway (Relation 538443)

2011-09-05 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 06/09/11 10:50, Ian Sergeant wrote: On 6 September 2011 07:13, Ben Kelley ben.kel...@gmail.com mailto:ben.kel...@gmail.com wrote: In general I think it is common that a highway has a different name when it goes through a town. Here the route continues, and will often be

Re: [talk-au] Contribution review??

2011-09-05 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 06/09/11 11:26, Ian Sergeant wrote: Hi Richard, Welcome to OSM. A few observations. Nearmap is no longer an acceptable source for OSM, since they do not allow traces from their imagery to be re-licensed. I notice at least one of your edits sourced nearmap, and that isn't allowed any more.

Re: [talk-au] Princes Highway (Relation 538443)

2011-09-05 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 06/09/11 11:43, Ian Sergeant wrote: On 6 September 2011 13:21, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com mailto:i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: No. The route is still the Princes Highway as per here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/__wiki/Australian_Tagging___Guidelines#Route_Numbers http

Re: [talk-au] outback SA street names

2010-10-27 Thread Ross Scanlon
Neil Penman wrote: Yes the Coober Pedy golf course is almost identical to the google maps representation. Using google earth it does however seem to me that the golf course in that area (no grass of course) but the area marked on the maps only covers a small part of the total course, maybe

Re: [talk-au] outback SA street names

2010-10-27 Thread Ross Scanlon
Ian Sergeant wrote: As far as street names are concerned, we could just pick up the names for the streets currently unnamed by survey from the Atlas of SA, and attribute appropriately. If someone gets updated names from survey, they can update. Until then the temptation to just add them

Re: [talk-au] outback SA street names

2010-10-26 Thread Ross Scanlon
Neil Penman wrote: I could be wrong about this but It looks to me like Rosscoe added the street names for Marree. Most of the information in the changeset you referenced is for Coober Pedy. As far as I can tell the guy was on holiday in Aus mapped Coober Pedy then traveled on through Marree

Re: [talk-au] outback SA street names

2010-10-26 Thread Ross Scanlon
referenced is for Coober Pedy. As far as I can tell the guy was on holiday in Aus mapped Coober Pedy then traveled on through Marree adding the pub as he went. The Coober Pedy ones look suspect as well. If you compare the Golf Cource (their spelling) with the mentioned commercial maps then

Re: [talk-au] FYI I removed a whole bunch on nodes where ways existed for the same object.

2010-08-31 Thread Ross Scanlon
Welcome to talk-au I don't subscribe to the newbies list, so have no idea who is preaching what on that list. Thanks for letting us know here what you did, so that we can discuss and provide our point of view. Aussies of course revel in being different :) Sarcasm switch firmly on. --

Re: [talk-au] FYI I removed a whole bunch on nodes where ways existed for the same object.

2010-08-31 Thread Ross Scanlon
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 4:56 PM, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: Does not show up here.  I see only one name Campbell Primary School.   Cyclemap and Osmarender show both names at maximum zoom. Often the node name is rendered on top of the way name, so you only see one. This depends

Re: [talk-au] FYI I removed a whole bunch on nodes where ways existed for the same object.

2010-08-31 Thread Ross Scanlon
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:16:35 +1000 Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:14 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: URL? http://c.tile.openstreetmap.org/18/239684/158567.png Is your browser caching old tiles? No.

Re: [talk-au] FYI I removed a whole bunch on nodes where ways existed for the same object.

2010-08-31 Thread Ross Scanlon
On 31 August 2010 19:16, Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 7:14 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: URL? http://c.tile.openstreetmap.org/18/239684/158567.png I was after the perm link

Re: [talk-au] FYI I removed a whole bunch on nodes where ways existed for the same object.

2010-08-30 Thread Ross Scanlon
On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:15:12 +1000 Andrew Harvey andrew.harv...@gmail.com wrote: FYI. As per http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Good_practice#One_feature.2C_one_OSM-object I've removed a whole bunch of nodes where the same feature was mapped out as a way. I made sure not to loose any tags in

Re: [talk-au] FYI I removed a whole bunch on nodes where ways existed for the same object.

2010-08-30 Thread Ross Scanlon
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: On Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:15:12 +1000 Do you really think this was a good idea before discussing it on the list? I did ask on the newbies list before about what to do here, I was told that deleting the nodes

Re: [talk-au] Why maxspeed:source not source:maxspeed?

2010-08-24 Thread Ross Scanlon
I had thought the latter was the standard? I also ask because technically there's a conflict with the power:* proposals, one of which was power:source=*. JS got it wrong ;) Don't know for sure but I've been changing them to source:maxspeed as per here:

Re: [talk-au] Why maxspeed:source not source:maxspeed?

2010-08-24 Thread Ross Scanlon
On Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:33:32 +1000 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:31 PM, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: Don't know for sure but I've been changing them to source:maxspeed as per here: Cool, surely they could be changed en masse though

Re: [OSM-talk] Unnamed Streets

2010-08-20 Thread Ross Scanlon
On Fri, 20 Aug 2010 00:23:15 -0700 Gregory Arenius greg...@arenius.com wrote: Is there any recommended way to deal with streets with no names? I don't mean streets that have a name and we just haven't added that to OSM yet. I mean, how do we deal with streets that really don't have a name.

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-08-01 Thread Ross Scanlon
On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:08:10 +0200 Ulf Lamping ulf.lamp...@googlemail.com wrote: Am 31.07.2010 14:00, schrieb Peteris Krisjanis: 2010/7/31 Ulf Lampingulf.lamp...@googlemail.com: 4) Change it in every map renderer / router / other software that is out there - hundreds (or already even

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-31 Thread Ross Scanlon
Work out why it doesn't appear (5 min - your patch is actually very slightly wrong btw, can you spot your mistake?) Spotted my friday afternoon coding did you. Glad to see someones on the ball!! However the above is just for fun - lets replace my original statement with 'a lot of time' and

Re: [OSM-talk] [Tagging] emergency=*

2010-07-30 Thread Ross Scanlon
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:06:14 +1000 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 July 2010 16:51, Jacek Konieczny jaj...@jajcus.net wrote: Provided the program is maintained. People may use programs not maintained any more or they may be not able to upgrade or they wouldn't know they

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