Re: [OSM-talk] Making iD the default editor on osm.org

2013-08-19 Thread Stephen Hope
On 20 August 2013 07:57, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: I think one shouldn't be religious about warnings/questions/popup messages - sure it's a UI challenge to do them well but simply not doing them at all, ever, doesn't automatically mean you have a good UI. However, a pop-up

Re: [talk-au] 4WD only tags

2012-11-03 Thread Stephen Hope
David, When we first proposed (and started using) the 4wd_only tag, there was a lot of pushback from people who complained that it was not a verifiable tag. Track type had the same response. We were able to show them that there are signs all over Australia that say 4WD only at the start of a

Re: [talk-au] Lots of amenities ?

2012-10-17 Thread Stephen Hope
David, It's up to the rendering engine how it wants to display the POI's. It doesn't matter how far apart they are, if you zoom out enough they'll overlap anyway. The thing to remember is we provide the data, the people who render the maps decide what to do with it. If they're making a static

Re: [talk-au] Routing islands

2012-10-14 Thread Stephen Hope
Well, there's a couple of reasons why you might want to save it anyway with roads close together but not joining, so JOSM can't force you not to save it. They might not actually join. There's a couple of examples near me where roads end less than a meter away from another road, but don't join

Re: [talk-au] Aligning steets

2012-09-20 Thread Stephen Hope
On 20 September 2012 09:41, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: Yes it is a small roundabout as you can not legally drive over it unless it is impractical to do so. The vehicle in the street view is clearly about to drive around the center island. Whereas if it was a truck/bus/caravan it

Re: [talk-au] Aligning steets

2012-09-20 Thread Stephen Hope
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. I'd be just a happy to use a normal

Re: [talk-au] Aligning steets

2012-09-18 Thread Stephen Hope
I've seen it flatly stated that Australia didn't have any real mini-roundabouts. That may have been true once, but the last few new roundabouts I've seen built near me have all been either true mini roundabouts (nothing but paint) or a couple where there is a raised centre concrete disc, but it's

Re: [talk-au] Few questions about tagging ways in Australia

2012-09-10 Thread Stephen Hope
On 11 September 2012 01:28, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Ok, for the sake of argument, how would provider A demonstrate that OSM's data was made by copying its compilation of facts, when providers B and C contain exactly the same facts? Because B and C would not contain the same

Re: [talk-au] Misaligned streets OSM or Bing wrong? - use survey mark?

2012-09-01 Thread Stephen Hope
On 1 September 2012 11:35, Russell Edwards russell...@gmail.com wrote: I am still curious to know what the positional accuracy of survey markers is meant to be, if anyone can enlighten. First question you have to ask is how old the survey is? Australia as a whole moves north about 7-8 cm a

Re: [talk-au] Missing data

2012-08-20 Thread Stephen Hope
Diego, The discussion happened a while ago, but the redaction bot only ran a few weeks (maybe a month?) ago. It shouldn't run any more, as I understand it. Stephen On 21 August 2012 14:25, Diego Molla-Aliod diego.molla-al...@mq.edu.auwrote: The discussions about licence change happened

Re: [talk-au] Brisbane bus stop density

2012-07-29 Thread Stephen Hope
Yeah, I'm pretty sure there would only be one bus stop there, or possibly one each side of the road, at best. I'll see if I can swing by that way next time I'm over that side of town, if somebody doesn't beat me to it. I suspect that a few of the other double pairs nearby should only be singles

Re: [talk-au] Redaction progress

2012-07-22 Thread Stephen Hope
Yeah, I'm working on it - up in the northern suburbs at the moment, it's the area I know best. It's interesting that many streets that were showing as OK in the tools prior to the change may still be there, but are missing many nodes, so they don't match reality any more. I find you have to

Re: [OSM-talk] Tag combinations: amenity and highway

2012-06-14 Thread Stephen Hope
It is an important point of difference to train and bus stations/stops as to whether they have a dedicated Park and Ride carpark or not. It is something I would find useful if I was searching for station POI's. It's not just whether parking is nearby, but whether it's dedicated to commuters - not

Re: [OSM-talk] Import guidelines review

2012-06-11 Thread Stephen Hope
Or how big almost any place not in Europe is. I still remember somebody suggesting a kayak safari to map the Australian coast rather than using imagery/PGS imports. Stephen On 10 June 2012 14:56, Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com wrote: Me too. I think that the people who wish that the USA had

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

2011-12-19 Thread Stephen Hope
On 19 December 2011 22:10, Ross Scanlon i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: The original coastlines were from NASA PGS data and if they have been deleted and/or merged to the ABS data then the coastline is going to be deleted as well. Years ago, some of us spent quite a lot of time cleaning up the

Re: [talk-au] Residential Roads

2011-12-10 Thread Stephen Hope
On 11 December 2011 11:54, mick bare...@tpg.com.au wrote: In northern Brisbane I have yet to see anything that shows you are moving into a 50kph default zone. In Queensland the 50kph limit applies to all built up areas unless the street is marked otherwise. They don't mark the individual

Re: [talk-au] [OpenStreetMap] intersections

2011-11-30 Thread Stephen Hope
On 30 November 2011 21:51, Anthony o...@inbox.org wrote: And in the case of something like sparseness I think you can come up with at least equivalently correct results, by developing the algorithm hand in hand with input from a good human mapper. Oh, definitely. That's why I think we can

Re: [talk-au] [OpenStreetMap] intersections

2011-11-29 Thread Stephen Hope
On 29 November 2011 23:53, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Having a place tag is good, having a population tag is good. Faking either of those for the renderer or otherwise seems bad. We're talking about hinting, not faking. Marking something as a city when it's not, that's bad.

Re: [talk-au] What to tag a fire-fighting water tank?

2011-10-31 Thread Stephen Hope
True, but that doesn't mean we need to use it. When they actually bother to give the SI unit a name, I'll think about using it. In the meantime, the named metric unit of volume is the litre (L), and you can use it with all the prefixes, including KL (or cubic metre), ML etc. The prefixes don't

Re: [talk-au] Mapping things that no longer exist

2011-10-16 Thread Stephen Hope
Ben, True. But it also says that it is supposed to be showing a still physically visible item. Cuttings, grading, a physical scar on the landscape. If it was on an area that's been completely built over so that you would have no way of knowing something was ever there, then I'd change the tag.

Re: [OSM-talk] Automatic Map Plotting in OpenStreetMap

2011-08-15 Thread Stephen Hope
Parveen, See this thread on this list from February 3 2011. http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2011-February/056310.html Steve Coast announced the following. http://www.bing.com/community/site_blogs/b/maps/archive/2011/02/03/automatically-detect-roads-with-bing-aerial-imagery.aspx

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-28 Thread Stephen Hope
On 28 July 2011 21:52, Brian Quinion openstreet...@brian.quinion.co.uk wrote: Now that said I don't really care which tag is used for the 'full' name.  I'd personally prefer the name tag was used for this because it has always been the policy of OSM that the name tag includes the full

Re: [OSM-talk] shortened names

2011-07-26 Thread Stephen Hope
On 27 July 2011 10:40, Ed Loach e...@loach.me.uk wrote: Yes, it is called Saint Albans, written St Albans, except where some websites seem to have expanded it. e.g. http://www.meteoprog.co.uk/en/weather/SaintAlbans/ http://www.gomapper.com/travel/map-of/saint-albans.html etc...

Re: [OSM-talk] new zealand, australia

2011-07-07 Thread Stephen Hope
It is confusing, but I don't think that I'd call it correct, either. New Guinea can be considered part of the Australian continent, but New Zealand is not. It's Islands, and not on the continental shelf. It and NG are sometimes listed as part of Australasia (not Australia), and a bigger area

Re: [OSM-talk] Bandwidth limit/IP blocking - Error 303 on the OSM API?

2011-06-06 Thread Stephen Hope
On 6 June 2011 17:55, Jaak Laineste jaak.laine...@gmail.com wrote:  Also we have always started with P2, JOSM is too scary for the first introduction. So offline OSM files is not an option. I keep hearing this, but I must be weird, because I had the opposite reaction both when I first started

Re: [OSM-talk] Bike / Pedestrian directions on the MQ Open sites

2011-03-06 Thread Stephen Hope
On 6 March 2011 12:27, Paul Johnson ba...@ursamundi.org wrote: If it's a footway, unless it's clearly designed around foot use first and foremost with bicycle an afterthought, it doesn't allow bicycles unless explicitly tagged bicycle=yes.  Otherwise it's a path.  Maybe a cycleway if there is

Re: [OSM-talk] 12nm territorial borders - useful or rubbish?

2011-02-13 Thread Stephen Hope
On 14 February 2011 16:52, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: Would the UK coastguard have a good laugh when I claim to be in international waters at that location? If youre more than 12 miles from the coast (which is what is mapped) then youre in international waters, why would they

Re: [talk-au] Relicensing per changeset?

2011-02-05 Thread Stephen Hope
On 5 February 2011 15:30, Andrew Gregory andrew.greg...@gmail.com wrote: Surely that can't be correct? That is the way it was explained on one of the mailing lists a while back. I haven't seen any notice that it is going to change, though with the mushroom treatment we're getting, I could have

Re: [talk-au] Railway Station Naming Dispute

2011-02-03 Thread Stephen Hope
I'd keep both names - name= and alt_name= ( or old_name=). This is better for lookup purposes, as either version would then find this station. And it's not wrong, as it seems the other version was correct at one time. Whether that would be acceptable to the other editor is another problem.

Re: [talk-au] Victorian Coastline

2011-01-27 Thread Stephen Hope
On 27 January 2011 21:17, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Note to self: add feature to hide and render unselectable all admin=boundary. I used to always do this (using Josm filters) when working in country areas around Qld, the shire boundaries and roads were always interfering with

Re: [talk-au] BYO restaurants

2011-01-26 Thread Stephen Hope
On 27 January 2011 08:58, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Although it's a non-issue here as pointed out below, we really should get a policy on this. IMHO tags should reflect whatever makes the most sense to the most people, whether that's British, American or otherwise. I'd agree,

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-14 Thread Stephen Hope
Ben, some interesting shots there. I take it the MultiView part won't be up until later? It seems to be showing older imagery at the moment. A little bit of unfortunate image slicing here in just the wrong place. :) http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-27.475182,153.020904z=20t=knmd=20110113 And I

Re: [talk-au] Massive flooding

2011-01-11 Thread Stephen Hope
I heard that they were planning to do flights up north a few days ago, but couldn't get flight permissions, what with the state of emergency. And in the southeast (actually, pretty much everywhere, today), you'd get lovely grey clouds right now. In fact, if you look at Brisbane, it hasn't been

Re: [OSM-talk] address parsing by nominatim

2011-01-10 Thread Stephen Hope
2011/1/10 ヴィカス ヤダヴァ (vikas yadav) mevi...@gmail.com: I used hamlet for my block as pop limit of 1000 is given = satisfied The problem here is that population is only part of the definition of a hamlet. Less than 1000 people is correct, but it also has an implied and is surrounded by open

Re: [OSM-talk] protocol for adding buildings using aerial imagery?

2010-12-28 Thread Stephen Hope
On 28 December 2010 23:51, j...@jfeldredge.com wrote: Trying to estimate building height via the perspective in aerial pictures will be tricky, as buildings that were closer to the flight path won't show as much parallax as those that were farther away. It will be even trickier if you are

Re: [OSM-talk] Objects versions ready for ODbL

2010-12-21 Thread Stephen Hope
On 21 December 2010 09:52, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: So, can you tell from every edit you did, whether you used nearmap as a reference while doing the edit?  If so, you must be one of the very small percentage of people who tagged 100% every change they made, including even

Re: [OSM-talk] Objects versions ready for ODbL

2010-12-20 Thread Stephen Hope
On 20 December 2010 12:53, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: Because of the impossibility to be able to distinguish whats what, any user who has ever made a change in this situation will have to have all their edits removed from the system, to avoid any possibility that one edit might

Re: [OSM-talk] Objects versions ready for ODbL

2010-12-20 Thread Stephen Hope
On 20 December 2010 20:25, Simone Cortesi sim...@cortesi.com wrote: this is no way different from GPL released software: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-assign.html Actually, it's quite different. The FSF tell you upfront what the requirements are. The OSMF let you spend years working on the

Re: [OSM-talk] Objects versions ready for ODbL

2010-12-19 Thread Stephen Hope
Fabio, I cannot sign every edit I've ever done over, because I don't have the rights to do so. I can OK many of them, however, that were based purely on my own work, and not CC-BY-SA sources. There was some talk of a tool being made available that would let me specify which were OK by

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion for an Unconference

2010-11-28 Thread Stephen Hope
On 27 November 2010 08:45, Martijn van Exel m...@rtijn.org wrote: I'd much rather see a relative completeness grid map to inspire people to go out and visit those grids that seem less than perfect. There's a tool I'd like to see available, with it own data store, that overlays the main

Re: [talk-au] MS imagery

2010-11-25 Thread Stephen Hope
On 26 November 2010 08:57, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Excellent. The thought does occur that if one used source=bing, and started tracing now, and for some reason the legal agreement didn't eventuate, it would be easy to simply wipe all that data. But that would be making life

Re: [talk-au] MS imagery

2010-11-24 Thread Stephen Hope
On 25 November 2010 13:20, Grant Slater openstreet...@firefishy.com wrote: On 25 November 2010 03:00, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: There is no news here until they actually allow it, so far they are claiming they can't. Interesting choice of words. I think you'll find there

Re: [OSM-talk] A warning about gates and other barriers

2010-09-21 Thread Stephen Hope
On 20 September 2010 21:48, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Firstly, what is behind the gate differs depending on your location. Secondly, the way behind the gate may well be reachable by other means (i.e. a detour) - it is easy to imagine a gate where vehicles cannot pass, but still

Re: [OSM-talk] Place of worship

2010-08-26 Thread Stephen Hope
On 21 August 2010 04:29, Pierre-Alain Dorange pdora...@mac.com wrote: Yes it seems strange to tag place_of_worship the whole area. According to the wiki should apply to the church, synagoge, temple... the place of worship, not the office, the garden and so on. To me, it's not strange at all.

Re: [OSM-talk] Beaches at lower zoom levels

2010-08-19 Thread Stephen Hope
On 19 August 2010 17:27, Malcolm Herring malcolm.herr...@btinternet.com wrote: The usual convention (Ordnance Survey for example) for land maps is to use Mean High Water. (Marine charts usually use Mean High Water Springs as their dry land datum.) There are exceptions. If a given area is

Re: [OSM-talk] RFC: what are empty nodes and how should we use them?

2010-08-15 Thread Stephen Hope
On 16 August 2010 07:42, Jonas Stein n...@jonasstein.de wrote: Are there any empty nodes that make sense, or is a empty always node nonsense? The only thing I can think of , is that when I upload a way, the nodes go first, then the way joins them all up. Is it possible for somebody else to get

Re: [talk-au] Showgrounds

2010-07-30 Thread Stephen Hope
On 30 July 2010 22:27, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Meh. I look at the definition of landuse=recreation_ground and I think it could include almost anything. Maybe you're right. There are so few showgrounds it won't matter much either way. Steve Actually there are a lot of

Re: [OSM-talk] Suggestion to add SA clause to CT section 3, describing free and open license

2010-07-19 Thread Stephen Hope
On 19 July 2010 23:19, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: And honestly, if at any future time two thirds of active OSM contributors want to change to a non-SA license, why should we keep them from it? In one or two years, two thirds of active contributors will be a greater number of

Re: [OSM-talk] maori/english search oddities for nz towns

2010-07-06 Thread Stephen Hope
Chrome - Pahia, New Zealand Firefox 3.6.6 - Pahia, New Zealand IE 8.0 - Pahia, Aotearoa Weird. Checking my language options in IE, the only language listed is English, Australian. Stephen On 7 July 2010 12:40, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: well, here's an odd thing: if i

Re: [OSM-talk] Rendering: nature_reserve and national_park

2010-06-29 Thread Stephen Hope
I'm a bit confused as to what exactly counts as a nature_preserve. Take a look at this area http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-27.277213,152.952728z=18t=knmd=20100608 The land around the creek there is a council designated reserve. However, it's not really to preserve any special nature area, or even

Re: [talk-au] Queensland parks, forests and conservation areas

2010-06-29 Thread Stephen Hope
On 29 June 2010 21:49, James Livingston li...@sunsetutopia.com wrote: 3) State Forests get landuse=forest. Any leisure activities (e.g camping) get marked as their own thing, like tourism=camp_site, which isn't in this dataset 4) Forest Reserves and Timber Reserve (which are often adjacent to

Re: [OSM-talk] Stack Overflow-like site for geographic information systems

2010-06-22 Thread Stephen Hope
On 23 June 2010 02:44, Tom Hughes t...@compton.nu wrote: I think it would be rather bad of us to try and take it over and use it for our own ends like that. Some of us have already been talking about setting up an OSM specific QA site like this which would be a much better fit than trying to

Re: [OSM-talk] Tagging for street danger levels

2010-06-22 Thread Stephen Hope
On 23 June 2010 00:14, Paul Houle p...@ontology2.com wrote:    I'd like to see some tagging that tells cyclists not to ride on sidewalks,  for instance:  as a pedestrian I've been involved in accidents where cyclists were ~illegally~ riding on a sidewalk and Surely that is just highway=foot,

[talk-au] Residential landuse

2010-06-16 Thread Stephen Hope
I'm doing some work on the outskirts of Brisbane, where the properties start to get bigger, doing some clean up. And I got to wondering about residential landuse. At one end of the scale, you have inner city housing (350-1000 sq m lots), and there's no question they are residential. At the

Re: [talk-au] Buildings

2010-06-14 Thread Stephen Hope
No. But when I do buildings, it's almost always as part of a larger compound of some sort. So a I might tag a whole area as a school or tafe, retail centre or church, then tag the buldings inside them as just building. If I was doing stand-alone buildings I would be more likely to tag them

Re: [OSM-talk] On the ground rule on the wiki

2010-06-01 Thread Stephen Hope
On 2 June 2010 12:08, Robin Paulson robin.paul...@gmail.com wrote: this reminds me of a situation i've come across in auckland, which i don't know the solution to. there's a major road, which apparently has three names: The Strand (on signposts) Shipwright Lane (on different signposts)

Re: [talk-au] New gateway motorway bridge duplication

2010-05-16 Thread Stephen Hope
A couple of things about the bridge. First, even though it was officially opened today, it doesn't have traffic on it until Monday week (24th). Then they do changes to the approaches, and a bit later shut the old bridge down for six months for refurbishment. We'll have to keep changing things

Re: [talk-au] Tagging stormwater drain areas?

2010-05-16 Thread Stephen Hope
Andrew, Is this what you are talking about? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/basin%3Dinfiltration http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2009-February/034383.html Stephen On 17 May 2010 14:15, Andrew Gregory and...@scss.com.au wrote: I'd like to thank everyone

Re: [talk-au] Mini Roundabouts.

2010-04-26 Thread Stephen Hope
On 27 April 2010 10:53, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: Some whisper that they have seen a painted roundabout on the road, but whether this is a roundabout is not for us to know - according to the Road Rulez it ain't a roundabout. and They are very rare, and perhaps we should draw them out as

Re: [talk-au] Mini Roundabouts.

2010-04-25 Thread Stephen Hope
On 25 April 2010 18:18, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: Having just done a bit of research, I agree.  The Aust Road Rules define a roundabout: A roundabout is an intersection: (a) with either: (i) one or more marked lanes, all of which are for the use of vehicles travelling in the

Re: [talk-au] Nearmap made Channel 7 news

2010-03-18 Thread Stephen Hope
Well, I understand the resolution over Rottnest Island is better than anywhere else, so that ought to give an idea of what they can do. But I got the impression on the forums somewhere that they got that by flying lower, thus requiring more passes, though I may be wrong - I can't find it again

Re: [talk-au] Duplicate node finder

2010-02-11 Thread Stephen Hope
Please be careful removing duplicate nodes. If a couple of ways cross, and have nodes in the same place, please make sure they should connect before just stitching them together. I've seen at least one example where a road on a bridge crossing another road underneath have been connected together

Re: [talk-au] access=destination

2010-01-24 Thread Stephen Hope
2010/1/25 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: The 'Local Traffic Only' sign is an advisory sign only and is not regulatory. I don't think this is important, but this could be specified using motor_vehicle:regulatory=no (or inferred from motor_vehicle:source=Local Traffic Only sign)

Re: [talk-au] Question about lanes

2010-01-22 Thread Stephen Hope
This is another one of those cases where the instructions used to be in unclear. For a while the Wiki said the count was number of lanes in each direction. Some did that, some did total lane count. It has since been changed to the current (and I'm told former) total count, but there is quite

Re: [talk-au] Boat ramp

2010-01-20 Thread Stephen Hope
2010/1/21 David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au: Also, from the wiki for 'service': Generally for access to a building, motorway service station, beach, campsite, industrial estate, business park, etc.. This doesnt sound wrong to me, if a service road can lead to a beach or campsite, why not to

Re: [OSM-talk] New Highways view in OSM Inspector

2010-01-09 Thread Stephen Hope
2010/1/9 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: No it isn't, the preprocessing software could do that if it needs it, this isn't a reason to add extra nodes to the database. We are talking about the API for editors and casual use of the database. There are no pre-processors involved. Sure,

Re: [talk-au] Download a route

2010-01-09 Thread Stephen Hope
I think he's talking more about things like tourist trails, ie preset routes, and usually not the shortest way. Or bus routes, or similar things. There's a tourist route near me I keep meaning to go see if I can find the other end of, sometime. Stephen 2010/1/9 John Smith

Re: [OSM-talk] Public notary (Map feature POI proposal)

2010-01-08 Thread Stephen Hope
2010/1/8 Pieren pier...@gmail.com: I would like but we need some clear definition about office and what makes the difference with the existing amenity and shop keys. For instance, the current definition of shop in Map Features is: A shop is a place of business stocked with goods for sale or

Re: [talk-au] Default access restrictions

2010-01-06 Thread Stephen Hope
2010/1/7 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: ===Footway== Now, bicycles aren't allowed on *footpaths* - ie, the path that runs along the side of the road. But they're generally allowed on most other paths, like into or

Re: [talk-au] Default access restrictions

2010-01-06 Thread Stephen Hope
2010/1/7 David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au: On Thu, 2010-01-07 at 10:49 +1000, Stephen Hope wrote: From a quick skim of the wiki, it seems that 'bicycle=yes' means that bicycles are allowed on the way, where 'bicycle=designated' means the bike has right of way.  Bikes have right of way

Re: [talk-au] Distinguish between National, State etc parks

2010-01-04 Thread Stephen Hope
2010/1/5 Craig Feuerherdt craigfeuerhe...@gmail.com: John is right about the distinction between the landuse natural tags. landuse is about what is on the ground (trees, farming etc). I am assuming national/state/other parks/areas should be attributed with the natural tag, but natural=what?

Re: [OSM-talk] What's the policy on unsurveyed roads from imagery?

2009-12-27 Thread Stephen Hope
2009/12/27 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: In Australia there is this legacy speed limit sign for people with racing licenses that they can drive any speed they wish, everyone else is limited to 100, how exactly do you map that? (and I saw one such sign only the day before yesterday).

Re: [talk-au] SES Sheds

2009-12-26 Thread Stephen Hope
That's not just Sydney. Brisbane will clear you off the motorways, and if you break down in the City centre area they'll take you off the street there too. Stephen 2009/12/26 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: Oh and most/all motorways in Sydney have their own vehecals to tow people off

Re: [talk-au] Routable maps

2009-12-22 Thread Stephen Hope
Not all the img files you'll find lying around are routable. Some are, some aren't. As Matt said, some of the ones on the OSM Australia are, but not all. There are other sources as well - see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin/Download for a partial list. (Check the routable

Re: [talk-au] Common or not??

2009-12-20 Thread Stephen Hope
2009/12/21 Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net: I think using a bus route type could get muddled with public transport and we will have german tourists trying to catch the library truck to get around. Yeah, they're not really really related to bus-stops. All the mobile libraries I've seen tend

Re: [OSM-talk] Contribution graph

2009-12-17 Thread Stephen Hope
There was a similar study that has been done in Wikipedia - and it got similar results. Then somebody else did some closer studies, and found that the last edit may have been done by one of the 10%, but they were often cosmetic cleanups. The bulk of creation was done by other users. I wonder how

Re: [talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-14 Thread Stephen Hope
The reason I thought they may be a QLD thing is the state Government here licences them a bit differently from your average pub (or used to, I haven't checked lately). Thus the (official) members only rules, connection to a sport club, etc. This connection can be quite vague - the one nearest my

[talk-au] Sports Clubs

2009-12-13 Thread Stephen Hope
I'm looking for some guidance on tagging for Sports Clubs. I'm not sure if these are an Australian wide thing, or just a QLD invention. I'm talking about the buildings that are run by (or for), are named after, and support a sports club or organisation, but actually don't have any thing to do

[talk-au] Boundary ways/relations

2009-12-03 Thread Stephen Hope
I have a question about the suburb boundary ways that have been imported for Australia a while back. The boundary ways often follow a road, or the coast, or a stream or river. Some of the ways are other things, as well as a boundary (a stream, for example) but some of the boundary ways are

Re: [OSM-talk] connection between 2 islands

2009-12-01 Thread Stephen Hope
I think this is a case where the different versions of English are not quite the same. To me: A ford is a crossing that is usually underwater all the time. However the water is shallow enough that you can cross anyway, just expect to get a bit wet. It may be dry if the whole river dries up, or

Re: [OSM-talk] [Talk-us] proposal for deletion: talk-us-ga and

2009-10-21 Thread Stephen Hope
2009/10/22 Lester Caine les...@lsces.co.uk: There is not currently a single solution, but I see no reason why a good email based list can't simply add a web based interactive archive as well? There are solutions, but all the ones I know about are commercial. I use a board based on MPNews

Re: [OSM-talk] Instead of voting

2009-10-11 Thread Stephen Hope
2009/10/11 Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com: Stephen Hope writes:   However, I have seen proposals which have improved considerably after   a little bit of feedback during the voting process. We now have a tagging mailing list for that. Of course, and it's a good place to talk about

Re: [OSM-talk] Instead of voting

2009-10-09 Thread Stephen Hope
2009/10/9 Russ Nelson nel...@crynwr.com: The benefit is that people spend more time mapping and less time coordinating with each other on things that don't need to be coordinated in advance. And the disadvantage is that by saving a little time on the lack of coordinating at the start, we then

Re: [talk-au] natural=land v natural=coastline

2009-10-06 Thread Stephen Hope
2009/10/6 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: If you look at this from the point of view of territorial waters the coastline is from either the high or low tide marks, they spell it out in legalese and I can't remember off the top of my head, but the coast line cuts across any

Re: [talk-au] Gatton, QLD

2009-09-23 Thread Stephen Hope
2009/9/23 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: No, source=survey isn't ambiguous at all it's spelt out clearly on the map features page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Map_Features#Annotation Actually, that is ambiguous - or rather incomplete. It says gpx track or other physical

Re: [OSM-talk] Patch to render names from routes and custom highway shields on a per country basis

2009-09-21 Thread Stephen Hope
2009/9/22 Richard Weait rich...@weait.com: Now everything I know about Australian highways I learned from Mel Gibson in _The Road Warrior_ so I have much to learn.  What is the shield landscape like in Australia? Queensland is in the (slow) process of changing to alphanumeric designations,

Re: [talk-au] Australian bushwalking tracks

2009-09-21 Thread Stephen Hope
2009/9/22 swanilli swani...@gmail.com: I agree with Evan's view that We should emphasis tagging properties and not uses. Some of my local streets have a painted cycleway sign but it makes little sense to tag the street as highway=cycleway, rather than say, highway=residential. A cycleway

Re: [OSM-talk] Train station names: Place Station ou just Place ?

2009-09-17 Thread Stephen Hope
And the difference between them is pretty easily explained. If you're on a train, you know you've just pulled into a station, the only question is which one, so the word station is redundant. If you are outside the station, you may not know what the building in front of you is, and you are

Re: [OSM-talk] Google Maps v.s. OSM routing in Berlin

2009-09-17 Thread Stephen Hope
2009/9/18 Dan Karran d...@karran.net: and 'turn right' to stay on the same road, even though it just continues past the junction with a curve to the right. Well yes, but there is a road going straight ahead as well. I've seen plenty of situations where it is not obvious that the road you are

Re: [OSM-talk] [tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - Additional parking types for amenity=parking

2009-09-13 Thread Stephen Hope
I think the problem there is they are usually a lot of small buildings, rather than one big one. I think we're looking for a tag to cover an area, I'm not sure building= is appropriate. Stephen 2009/9/14 John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com: Since they're buildings wouldn't using a building=*

Re: [OSM-talk] How to map cemetery ?

2009-09-09 Thread Stephen Hope
What landuse would you recommend for a cemetery? It's been said that all land should be covered by some landuse or other. Like putting in Landuse=retail but also listing the individual shops as amenities. So should we put both landuse=cemetery and an amenity=cemetery/graveyard node, or are you

Re: [talk-au] Tentative data source - Sunshine Coast Council

2009-08-26 Thread Stephen Hope
2009/8/26 Jeff Price jeff.pr...@rocketmail.com: The council are also interested in correcting errors in their own data given that today they are largely corrected via public complaints and subsequent site surveys. If someone has some wizzy ideas on how to determine the difference between the

Re: [OSM-talk] [RFC] Deprecating the use of Tag:highway=stop in favour of Key:stop

2009-08-25 Thread Stephen Hope
2009/8/26 Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com: On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 9:29 AM, John Smithdelta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Wed, 26/8/09, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: Pre-processor finds a stop sign, looks for the nearest junction node which it would already know is a junction

Re: [OSM-talk] Escalators and Travalators

2009-08-23 Thread Stephen Hope
2009/8/23 Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de: Therefore, I'd prefer to restrict highway=conveyor to human transport (or human+bicycle or some kind of vehicle, if this exists somewhere, by using access tags) and use a separate top level tag for goods - for example man_made=conveyor. I don't

Re: [OSM-talk] Escalators and Travalators

2009-08-22 Thread Stephen Hope
2009/8/23 Tobias Knerr o...@tobias-knerr.de: I believe the best way to solve this is to create a new top-level (that is, highway) value for all variants of conveyor transport. So, for example, we could do: Is this intended to be only for human transport? I know of some quite lengthy conveyors

Re: [talk-au] Would anyone buy one of these?

2009-08-21 Thread Stephen Hope
I bought mine from Graham Smith in the UK (last year some time). He still uses sonicresolutions domain to host pictures and email etc, but you're not buying from the company as such. And that assumes he's even the person still selling them, which I'm not sure. It was Andy talking about them on

Re: [OSM-talk] Historic Mapping needs help Now!

2009-08-19 Thread Stephen Hope
and are, in many ways, much more exciting examples of the proposal. That's my opinion at least; load the database with all the dating information you can and leave it to those who control the renderers to decide what they want to show. Cheers, Joseph 2009/8/19 Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com: I am

Re: [OSM-talk] Historic Mapping needs help Now!

2009-08-19 Thread Stephen Hope
not this year. Stephen 2009/8/19 John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com: --- On Wed, 19/8/09, Stephen Hope slh...@gmail.com wrote: Going to the Muster? Even when events are on the same space wouldn't the venue be laid out differently each year

Re: [OSM-talk] Lane turn restrictions

2009-08-19 Thread Stephen Hope
Well, I don't know about Hebrew. But at least some of the languages that use Arabic script (there are many) write the sentences and words from right to left, but the numbers from left to right. I have no idea about Chinese/Japanese etc. But I think that left to right for numbers, while not

Re: [talk-au] Bruce Highway... A1 only or A1+M1 ?

2009-08-19 Thread Stephen Hope
I just double checked on the way home from work. There are no A1 markings anywhere near the end of the Bruce Highway. The gateway arterial is marked as M1 - I'm not sure how far, but I think from memory at least as far as where it runs into the SE Freeway on the other side of the river, at which

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