Re: [talk-au] Talk-au Digest, Vol 175, Issue 22

Anthony wrote "Creating new Bus Stop nodes Is the consensus to remove the plaform tags from new nodes?" I'm not sure I understand. If you are creating a new bus stop node, then there won't be any tags to remove, platform or otherwise. ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Undiscussed, undocumented mass edit across all of Australia.

Hi Anthony, One reason I can see for discussing this edit here, before doing it, is in regard to the cases where the platform tag already exists on an area close to the bus stop node. If this edit had not been reverted then the question would be, who will clean up the mess of the duplicate tags.

Re: [OSM-talk] SOTM 2012 T-shirt

Many thanks Satoshi IIDA, We (Canberra Cavalry) have quite a few Japanese players in our team this year, mainly pitchers. Tonight should be a good night and the Japanese ambassador to Australia will be there. I only hope he doesn't want my t-shirt :-) Cheers form Canberra Australia Nick

[OSM-talk] SOTM 2012 T-shirt

Can anyone, who was at SOTM 2012 tell me what the inscription on the front of the T-shirt says. I'm going to wear mine tonight at a "Japanese Night" at the Baseball and anyone from Japan who is there is bound to come up and ask me about it. I know it starts of "70 Million people can't be

Re: [talk-au] Hello!

Hi Martijn, In my opinion the biggest improvement to Australian OSM data, to make it usefull for automotive navigation, would be the addition of offline address data. I believe that most states have address datasets available that are OSM licence compliant and could be used for import. Would

Re: [Talk-us] NYC Name Vandalism

Other criteria for ranking a object for "change protection" could be 1) How long has it been since the last change to it. 2) How big is it. ( a long road would rank higher than a short one) 3) How many things are "attached to it" 4) How important is it. (Motorways are more important than

[Talk-us] The take - away

I think that the "take-away" from all this is... Since OSM is a community project, no one (or group) can work in isolation. At some stage the community will have questions/criticisms of your work. You must be able to receive and respond to these promptly. Failure to do so will inevitably result

Re: [talk-au] Wagga to Echuca survey

Andrew wrote "According to the Geographical Names Board "Bullenbung Creek" is the old name and "Bullenbong Creek" is the new name (and by new we are talking since July 1972)." Ok thanks - I'll put Bullenbung in as Alt-name. ___ Talk-au mailing list

[talk-au] Wagga to Echuca survey

Surveying the area between Wagga and Echuca last week I have noticed the following. a) At the turn off from the Sturt Highway to Lockhart the (newish) sign said "Collingullie Jerildere Road" and there were no sign saying "Lockhart Road". LPI NSW Base Map has "Lockhart Road". The lowerr end of

Re: [talk-au] Tathra Fires

Thanks Nev, Tathra looks good. Now if we could only get those addressess in! I'm convinced that for OSM to be really usefull it has to be able to fulfil the function of Car Navigation and that this requires all data to be available offline. So all we need is permission to use the LPI addressess

[talk-au] Tathra Fires

I'll map all the houses in Tathra tonight unless someone else beats me to it. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [Talk-us] Rural US: Correcting Original TIGER Imported Ways

I've always been of the opinion that any of the original TIGER data import that has not yet been edited and does not have a name tag, should just be deleted. Then, and only then can the rural areas begin to be mapped correctly. In the early days there were a lot of people who thought that "any

Re: [talk-au] MS open maps

Address data could also be used to verify street/road names and also add them where they are missing. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] MS open maps

Hi Jubal The missing OSM information in Australia that would be, by a large margin, the most usefull, would be address data (and building footprint, if available). If we had address data then OSM maps would be usefull for the genberal public to use in car navigation etc. Collecting address data

Re: [talk-au] BYO drinks at restaurant

Ben wrote "I think that's some kind of location code. I forget what it's called. If you search for that string in Google Maps it takes you to an address at the Gold Coast." Bing maps (and Bing search) does not know of this string. Maybe it's proprietary Google information. Nick

Re: [talk-au] BYO drinks at restaurant

If byo=yes, then it would be useful to know if corkage is charged, and if so, how much. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Texas - redacted roads.

Sam wrote " https://services.slip.wa.gov.au/public/services/SLIP_Public_Services/Transport/MapServer/WMSServer " Thanks Sam, That WMS works well. I'll start working on this this weekend. The first area I looked at (Banksia Grove) looks to be a bit of a nightmare :-( Takes us back to to days

Re: [Talk-us] Texas - redacted roads.

AAAH - all my questions are answered. The City of Austin's use of google base map has "fooled" me into thinking that the map data was theirs rather than googles. If I click on the "blue line" then I see the actual City of Austin data and indeed it is "REED WILL DRIVE". Damm - So I have actually

Re: [Talk-us] Texas - redacted roads.

Clifford wrote "Looking at the data from Austin, the road should be name Reed Will Drive." Hi Clifford. Which site did you find the authoritive data for Austin from? (Tiger has nothing and is not authorative anyway, as far as I can tell) The Cit of Austin site

Re: [Talk-us] Texas - redacted roads.

Nathan wrote "Best to stay well on the correct side of the line " Ok - point taken. Did I mention that at the location I posted (using OSM) the CAPCOG website (roads dataset) http://regional-open-data-capcog.opendata.arcgis.com/datasets/roads-2015 has the road listed as REED WILL and with a

Re: [Talk-us] Texas - redacted roads.

richlv wrote "just a quick reminder that we should try not to use google maps or streetview, the legal status of "just looking" is also fuzzy :)" Ok, so I if want to find out what a road is called, I'm not allowed to use a street directory to do this? This would be extremely weird. If I am

[talk-au] Redacted roads in VIC QLD and WA

We have specific permissions to use certain QLD and WA data. Do we have any such permissions for VIC, or do we have anybody who knows who to ask? Also are there and tile servers or overlays for the QLD and WA data that we can use to manually get the redacted road names back easily?

Re: [Talk-us] Texas - redacted roads.

Andrew wrote "I would check out the City of Austin's OpenData portal: https://data.austintexas.gov/Locations-and-Maps/Street-Segment/t4fe-kr8c The license is the same (PD) as when the initial building import was completed, so you are good to go." Thanks Andrew, I'm now replacing some names

[Talk-us] Texas - redacted roads.

at http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=17/30.23990/-97.57717 Openstreetmap has three missing roads, that Bing and Google have as, Joe Lane, Cleto Street and Fifnella way. Tiger 2017 does not have these. Is there any usable source for these Texas roads or, if not, does anyone have local knowledge

Re: [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

I wrote "NSW and Queensland don't have any sources of names that we can use, so they will have to be surveyed." Actually , I meant Victoria and Queensland. NSW does have a good source but there are no redacted roads in NSW. ___ Talk-us mailing list

Re: [Talk-us] Redacting 75, 000 street names contributed by user chdr

Can someone put up an OSM task so that we can replace these names , from Tiger 2017? ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] wtsp.com using OSM for detour maps

Some while back, at the Denver SOTM, a bloke gave a presentation about depiction. This software is all about dynamic changes to the map due to natural hazards like flood, fire, etc and has the ability to incorporate immediate changes to routability by marking roads closed or marking certain areas

[Talk-us] New roads in Houston

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/29.86540/-95.66553 Can someone who has access to TIGER 2017 or who has local knowledge, add the names of these two new roads. Bing imagery shows that these new roads already have residents. They were not in OSM, till today, and are in the flood affected area

[Talk-us] Emergency Shelters

Are the emergency shelters currently mapped in OSM? I think that it would be really useful, in an emergency to have these locations available on your phone or watch as offline routable maps (including whether they are pet friendly). Maybe in the next few months we could convince/help all states

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup for Hurricane Harvey potential impact areas

Thanks Mike, Looks good. I've already found a serious routability issue with an unedited TIGER road in the Houston area. -I'm fixing it now. Cheers Nick ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup for Hurricane Harvey potential impact areas

Is there anything we can do, OSMwise, for communities in the path of Hurricane Irma. Anything that may be useful for search and recovery would be a priority. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER fixup for Hurricane Harvey potential impact areas

Hi Brian, >From the TxDOT website I see that the road data is updated yearly, but unfortunately the data was last published at the end of 2015. One think I would like to make sure of, is that Texas roads are up-to-date so that any new subdivisions that may be water affected are actually on the

Re: [Talk-us] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

This is how it's done http://www.dw.com/en/online-map-shows-wheelchair-accessible-locations-worldwide/a-15381244 I met this bloke at SOTM Japan some years ago. He didn't put out a questionaire about whether non-disabled persons tended to tag less accessability tags than disabled persons,

Re: [Talk-us] Open survey on participation biases in OSM

We are ,mostly, volunteers. Therefore I think we should map whatever takes our fancy and should not feel obliged to spend our time/money on mapping that we do not want to do willingly. If the location based service providers find that certain info is missing that they would like to have then

Re: [OSM-talk] Responding to vandalism

I haven't read the whole thread, so apologies if I'm repeating something. How about we introduce into editors (that advanced users use) a default behaviour that at above a certain zoom level, all features that have been edited in the last 24 hours are somehow colourised. Features edited between 1

Re: [OSM-talk] Beware Pokemon users

How about we ask the game maker to code in (and let slip in social media) that lots of new pokemon stuff may appear on every OSM residential road, outside a residence that has a street number (in OSM) equal to todays day number (e.g 28 - for today). Of course all the other OSM address tags must

[talk-au] Yellow Creek Road

Where Cooks Hill Road crosses the Hume Highway near Yass NSW http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=18/-34.80827/148.93106 The are signs, on the sides of the bridge, facing both carriageways, saying "Yellow Creek Road", Why this so is a mystery to me and the only references to "Yellow Creek Road"

Re: [OSM-talk] GeoServer and OpenStreetMap

Thanks all, I'll start the process this weekend but I suspect it will be a long slow process with lots of new learning for me. Cheers Nick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[OSM-talk] GeoServer and OpenStreetMap

Has anyone here put OSM data into GeoServer. Is there a primer somewhere to help me along the way. Nick ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[talk-au] Fazzolari Avenue

In OSM there seem to quite a few incorrectly named "Fazzolari Avenue" ways around the Mona Vale Warriewood area. Not sure yet how they happened (may have been a copy/paste type issue) - not sure. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Tagging for the router

When I said that Gosmore (YourNavgation) website had done something stupid, I was wrong. It was the data that was incorrect. I have fixed the data to make the acute angle , where the two carriageways meet up, far more acute (which agrees with the imagery. Once the Yournavigation site updates

Re: [talk-au] Tagging for the router

"My suggestion is that the map data is the best place to store that information." Actually - the wiki page is very specific on this. "When a particular turn restriction is *the default* for a given jurisdiction *and* is *not signed* *don't map them*. It is much better to ensure that routing

Re: [talk-au] Tagging for the router

"I'm assuming you mean the Intersection with Lane Cove Rd. If so it's not permitted to make a u-turn here anyway, as there is no sign permitting u-turns at the traffic signals. So I'd not add it as a restriction as anyone driving there should know that they can not make a u-turn there." Ok -

Re: [talk-au] Tagging for the router

"I'm assuming you mean the Intersection with Lane Cove Rd." No - the intersection with Chiltern Street although it looks as though someone has just added it. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

[talk-au] Tagging for the router

What do people think about the intersection at -33.6793339 151.264475 The road geometry clearly indicates that there is no way you can do a turn from Moan Vale Road Eastbound back down Mona Vale Road Westbound, yet there are no signs saying so and I believe that most routers would suggest

Re: [talk-au] Secondary roads are of primary importance.

Actually. primary roads are of equal need for fixing. Maybe only trunk and motorways are reasonably accurate routing wise. ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

[talk-au] Secondary roads are of primary importance.

Secondary roads often have high speed limits and are connected to low speed residential roads. This can cause issues with cars slowing in front of fast moving cars and cars crossing in front of traffic. For this reason there are many intersections on secondary roads that have no-u-turn or

Re: [OSM-talk] Spoken street names

I've yet to find a product for Windows Phone that does TTS. Navmii does it only on Android and Ios. Maybe Scout does but it is not available in Australia. OsmAnd (and the $8 upgrade OsmAnd+) is brilliant. The offline maps and offline Wikipedia POI's make this a must have item for all tourists.

Re: [OSM-talk] Spoken street names

I have tried OsmAnd and Magic Earth on Android and Magic Earth on IOs and they seem to work well, althouth Magic Earth did some crazy routing. I will compare the same route on OsmAnd Magic Earth and Garmin (OSM maps) and OsmR to see if it is a data problem or routing issue. I still haven't got

Re: [OSM-talk] Spoken street names

I just tried Scout again (on the iphone) and it didn't do TTS ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [OSM-talk] Spoken street names

I've already tried Navmii on my windows phone. I like it a lot but it doesn't do TTS (Spoken Street names) - as far as I can tell. I've tried scout on my iPhone (a few years ago - overseas) . From memory, it did TTS but let itself down in late turn announcements. Also you can't purchase the

[OSM-talk] Spoken street names

Is there any navigation software (for a Mobile phone) that uses offline OSM data and also has spoken street names? ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER tracing layer updated to 2015 release

Yes, many thanks Eric, This facility will result in significant improvements to the US OSM data. Cheers Nick ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Am I doing this right? Houses w/ addresses

Excellent job Steve, I believe that house addresses is the only thing missing from OSM that is stopping it from becoming the mainstream mapping data of choice! I’ve always been interested in how to collect addresses, which can be a time consuming and difficult task. Walking around a

Re: [OSM-talk] Map Roulette

Mike wrote I am trying to use Map Roulette for the Fix Waterway Direction challenge. It seems that after processing a couple of issues, it fails to advance to the next issue. I am using Chrome and editing in JOSM. Hi MIke, I believe that it is a problem with cache control and a workaround is

Re: [talk-au] Data for OSM + talk at UNSW

Maybe you could get some students at UNSW to fire up a quad-copter with a go pro on it and get some up-to-date rectified imagery to check against their maps, then edit in any changes/improvement. Nick ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2014 update

Mike wrote Since the new roads were flagged, I was able to bring them into OSM. (All manually checked for connectivity, smoothing, etc). Is ther a way to use TIGER 2014 in JOSM yet. ___ Talk-us mailing list Talk-us@openstreetmap.org

Re: [Talk-us] TIGER 2014 update

Richard Welty wrote the question is how much work are you willing to do to use it. The answer is simple - verry little. I've been doing quite a lot of armchair mapping recently. 1) Pushing crazy TIGER roads around in residential and rural areas. 2) Adding missing roads in Las Vegas (and adding

[talk-au] Vicmap data

I just tried to add some more Victoria missing road names but can't get the Vicmap imagery working in either JOSM or Potlatch. Does it still work for anyone else Nick ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Vicmap data

Thanks all, Got it working in JOSM now. (Just had a little error in the URL). Nick ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] City of Melbourne data imports

Regarding the Address data potential import. The Vic Map data is already available for import and it contains the address info for all of Victoria. (as well as tons of roads missing from OSM) I think this would be the best source of address data to import.

Re: [Talk-us] Dirt Roads (formerly: Abandoned railway)

While people work out how to remove the multitude of tiger ways that don't actually exist, downgrade others from the incorrect residential to unclassified or track depending on imagery or ground survey, and fix the geometry of all unedited TIGER data, I beleive that it's absolutely essential (from

Re: [Talk-us] Road abbreviations

Keith wrote Sounds like you fixed this quickly. Would you mind explaining the steps in detail you took to achieve this? Thanks I decided to use a set of common abbreviations of Ct St Ave Dr Ln Pl Pkwy Cl Cir Rd In Australia I'd propably add Cct (Circuit) to the list. Then for the first Ct

Re: [Talk-us] Road abbreviations

stevea wrote, though there are problems in the west, like Las Vegas Ok - I think I've fixed all of these in Las Vegas (there were a few thousand). It's amazing how simple they are to find using the overpass api (and overpass turbo). Nick ___ Talk-us

Re: [Talk-us] Road abbreviations

Stecea wrote though there are problems in the west, like Las Vegas Hi, I've just come back from a holiday to Las Vegas where I surveyed as many unamed streets and new neighbourhoods (that are not named in TIGER 2013) as I could find. Hopefully this means that OSM now has the best road data of

[talk-au] Vicmap data copying

Am I correct in saying that it is permissable to copy street names from the VicMap into OSM? Also - what about the house numbers, is that ok as well? I have neither the time, talent or inclination to do an import of house numbers, but would help out in any manual effort to add all house numbers

Re: [talk-au] Vicmap data copying

Steve wrote IMHO some small scale imports may be useful, but from my comparisons, the VicMap data is not necessarily better than OSM. It often has stuff OSM doesn't, but sometimes that includes spurious stuff like roads that no longer exist, never did, etc. Thanks Steve, As far as importing

Re: [talk-au] M31 at Holbrook

Hi Mark, The B58 (according to the signs) continues right down to the Hume Weir (including Murray Street). C542 continues over the bridge and right up to the intersection with B58. I have amended these on OSM and added in a few road names in the area. Unfortunately my car broke down three time

Re: [talk-au] M31 at Holbrook

Hi Mark, Holbrook looks great, thanks. I'll check on B58 and while in Albury I'll grab a few more street signs for some of the unnamed streets. I won't bother with Wodonga since once the Vicmap data is available for JOSM I can add them all then. Nick

Re: [talk-au] M31 at Holbrook

Hi Arthur, mark, About four weeks ago I went down to Melbourne, for a bike ride and did have my GPS on through Holbrook. I saw someone had put the bypass in so I didn't think to check it. I've just uploaded my GPS and it matches the other one very well and is substantially different to the

Re: [talk-au] Openstreetmap Quality Issues

http://www.gazette.vic.gov.au/gazette/Gazettes2013/GG2013S204.pdf Not sure what all this is about but may be of interest (it does mention Diggers Way). ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Openstreetmap Quality Issues

Hi Neil, I think the way to get this fixed permanently could be... Fix it one more time, re-add the note saying that the imagery is out of date and that this intersection has been surveyed. Change the source tag from nearmap to survey. Now even though one of the mnappers has a fairly colourful

Re: [talk-au] vicmap data licensing

Hi Li I'm convinced that you will find that it is practically impossible to mass import (or even mass merge) a new road dataset into existing data when there is a large amount of existing data. The only practical way would be to delete all of the Victorian data and start again with the mass

Re: [talk-au] vicmap data licensing

and Bing imagery in helping to fix up the horrible original TIGER data but would love to be helping in fixing up Australia. Nick Hocking Canberra ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

[OSM-talk] Bicentennial National Trail in Australia

Hi The other day I was riding the push bike along some trails and got talking to some horse riders. It turns out the Lady (Jenny) is the ACT coordinator for (and also the secretary of) the Bicentennial National Trail Ltd. Naturally I dropped the term Openstreetmap and it appears that they are

[talk-au] Bicentennial National Trail

Hi The other day I was riding the push bike along some trails and got talking to some horse riders. It turns out the Lady (Jenny) is the ACT coordinator for (and also the secretary of) the Bicentennial National Trail Ltd. Naturally I dropped the term Openstreetmap and it appears that they are

Re: [Talk-us] Turn restriction dispute

It may be that what is happening is that NE2 is deliberately trying to start an edit war so that he will be allowed back onto this list to discuss it. If, as seems to be the case, the bulk of his edits are destructive and need to be reverted, then the sensible thing to do may be to put an auto

Re: [talk-au] cities changed to towns

Richard wrote So if it interests you, have a go at it. It does interest me and I will have a go at it (eventually). However I have a few more pressing issues (OSMwise). We urgently need to complete the street name reclamation of Australia. To this end I will be mapping Hay and Narrandra in the

Re: [talk-au] cities changed to towns

Hi Alex, My view on all this is that if a place has officially been designated as a city then we must tag it as such. If it is offically a town then we must tag it as a town etc. If we can't find any official designation then either common sense of maybe a state specific rule could be applied.

Re: [talk-au] cities changed to towns

According to NSW Government Gazette 1885, vol. I. NSW Government. 1885-03-20 Goulburn was officially proclaimed a City on 20 March 1885 This user has changed Goulburn from a city to a town amazing ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

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

Ian Steer wrote I think this is good because no matter which way you go through the intersection, you only pass one set of lights (rather than 2 if they were placed on the actual intersecting nodes). Couldn't a smart traffic light counter detect dual carrageways and just add a single signal,

Re: [talk-au] Preparing to map.

Sorry folks, I was having too much fun in Port Macquarie and only got to map for a short while. I did some roads near the racecourse although most of these were never named in OSM before. On my returm trip I will make a more determined effort to re-map the rest of Port Macquarie. I have made a

[talk-au] Preparing to map.

I see that Port Macquarie and Wauchope need quite a bit of remedial work done on them. On my way to the Pan-Pac Games this week, I am going to try to acheive some of this. I started by realigning those roads that redaction had caused to misalign. Then I traced in those roads that went missing. I

Re: [talk-au] Importing locality names from GeoScience Australiadataset.

David wrote A lot of the locations are towns that only existed for a short time and many are ones that never existed, or existed just in the mind of a planner. Yes - this absolutely epitomises the main problem of most imports. Here we have 19,000 bits of data that are almost certainly

Re: [talk-au] brisbane mapping party

Hi all, I'm going to be at the Gold Coast for the week of November 3-10 for the Pan Pacific Masters Games. Although I'm registered in 3 different sports, I intend to spend at least one day (and some bits and pieces) reading as many Gold Coast street signs as possible. I'll be starting around the

Re: [OSM-talk] China's maps to be closely monitored for more accuracy

Does this mean tha the openstreetmap website/database will not be accessable in China. If so then we can get no more edits from there. ___ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk

[talk-au] (no subject)

John wrote I've been giving you a bit of a hand there, but mainly outside Canberra Thanks John, all help very much appreciated. Once I finish Canberra I will start helping out to clear keep right errors in Sydney. Keep right is the best method, in m,y view, since it gives immediate feedback

Re: [talk-au] The OSM ladder

Ben wrote Also, thank you for fixing those track sections at St Marys. Do you know what happened there? Given there was a derailment there 2 months ago, I find this a spooky co-incidence... Co-incidently I was in Sydney for the day, on that day, for a work meeting and as I

[talk-au] The OSM ladder

I wish to transport a long thinnish somewhat fragile wooden object from Sydney to Canberra behind steam locomotive 1210. Given that there some tunnels along the way, is the mapping in OSM accurate enough in terms of bendiness to calculate (given a known width of tunnel) whether the wooden object

Re: [talk-au] The OSM ladder

Alex wrote or a question about loading gauges that the ARTC might better answer? Yes it would be better for ARTC to answer but before I bother them I would like to know if it is at all feasable. Specifically, I am concerned that one of the tunnels between Queanbeyan and Bungendore may well be

Re: [talk-au] The OSM ladder

Actually, I've just had a go with a 50 metre stick insect in JOSM and it is REALLY touch and go (or is that touch and stay). Nick ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] The OSM ladder

Russell wrote you could at least work out a minimum radius of curvature OK - what I will do is find out the tunnel width. Then I'll assume that we offload the objecty just before the tunnel and walk it through with the object rotated 90 degrees through the long axis. I'll do as you suggest and

Re: [talk-au] The OSM ladder

Ok - my initial drawings, using JOSM and a tunnel width of 3 metres show that this could end up being a matter of inches. I really have to find out exact dimensions of the object and whether there is any flexability in it so that we could bend it around the tunnel. Also, if two tunnels are such a

Re: [talk-au] Routing islands

Hi ben http://tools.geofabrik.de/osmi/debug.html?view=routing_non_eulon=150.82846lat=-33.7503zoom=15opacity=0.98 gets the routing outside europe ( I had the same problem and went looking for this url) . http://keepright.ipax.at/report_map.php?schema=50error=38081608 paints an even gloomier

Re: [talk-au] New Australian caching server. Feedback?

Ben wrote 'Classic. You know you've got an OSM addiction problem when... ' What!! - I've only got 28 GPS units, at last count :-) Actually, with so many unit on me when I ride the bike (3 or 4) I thought I'd try to see if they interfered with each other. I believe this is why some airlines

Re: [talk-au] New Australian caching server. Feedback?

Grant wrote Have you noticed faster tiles this week? Certainly have.Many thanks Kris Ive just spent 5 hours editing in my mapping travels from today so the faster tile server really helped out. It is really fast. Ive also been fixing hundreds of keep right errors in Canberra, so Fast

Re: [Talk-us] Remap-a-tron level 2 complete! Suggestions for level 3?

I think the most necessary cleanup to the USA OSM data is to clean up all the crazy unedited original Tiger roads. These can easily be identified simply as those ways that have a name but are still the original Tiger data and have not been edited. (except for the balrog-kun bot). You could just

Re: [Talk-us] Remap-a-tron level 2 complete! Suggestions for level 3?

oldtopos wrote I will also point out that the connectivity errors I mentioned earlier are, in fact, largely a result of unedited TIGER data I'd be happy to go along with a flavour of a connect-a-tron. It's very hard not to clean up an entire neighbourhood/s when crazy TIGER roads are spotted

Re: [Talk-us] Remap-a-tron level 2 complete! Suggestions for level 3?

Level 3 Tiger 2012 roads, that are named, that don't have a corresponding OSM way with similar naming and similar geometry. This would pick up new 2012 Tiger roads, and unedited original Tiger named roads which were of poor quality. Level 4 Tiger unedited roads that are highway residential and

Re: [Talk-us] Schedule for State Of The Map US is live

Hi all, I've just oredered a ticket for this. I live in Australia but I hope it's ok if I attend a local chapter event like this. I do have some US credentials. I've driven and mapped extensively in California, and Colarado and Nevada and armchairmapped in a few other states as well. I believe

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