Re: [talk-au] Mass realignment of roads? (was Mapping things by importance)

2009-06-12 Thread Delta Foxtrot
--- On Fri, 12/6/09, Liz wrote: > I think that often the amount was greater than 10 > metres. Now that you helped me to figure out relations I'm finally able to fix up the NSW/QLD border into 1 bondary instead of 2 wrong ones, the ABS boundary is in places 80-120m off the 29 degree south mark

Re: [talk-au] bus routes

2009-06-12 Thread Delta Foxtrot
--- On Sat, 13/6/09, Liz wrote: > open a file in JOSM, so you have the icons down the > LHS > > Alt-R or the icon with the cog opens relations in the RHS > panel > > now "New" > > opens a dialogue from which you can make relations > > (don't ask me for further details here) I just played wit

Re: [talk-au] bus routes

2009-06-12 Thread Delta Foxtrot
--- On Sat, 13/6/09, Liz wrote: > open a file in JOSM, so you have the icons down the > LHS > > Alt-R or the icon with the cog opens relations in the RHS > panel > > now "New" > > opens a dialogue from which you can make relations > > (don't ask me for further details here) I managed to brin

Re: [talk-au] bus routes

2009-06-12 Thread Liz
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: > Wow, why couldn't it be that easy in JOSM! > > thanks open a file in JOSM, so you have the icons down the LHS Alt-R or the icon with the cog opens relations in the RHS panel now "New" opens a dialogue from which you can make relations (don't ask me for f

Re: [talk-au] Mass realignment of roads? (was Mapping things by importance)

2009-06-12 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: > --- On Fri, 12/6/09, Liz wrote: > > I'll ask the offspring. He is 7/8 of a surveyor > > with one semester to go! > > Can you also ask the bearing the drift is going, all I've been able to find > out is approx north or north north east, but haven't been a

Re: [talk-au] Mapping things by importance

2009-06-12 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: > --- On Fri, 12/6/09, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > > the lachlan file is 4.5MB and the bidgee file 2.6MB > > > > I'll have to upload them somewhere where you can > > download them > > Is that compressed? no, that's the raw size of the file with the entire down

Re: [talk-au] bus routes

2009-06-12 Thread Delta Foxtrot
--- On Fri, 12/6/09, James Livingston wrote: > In Potlatch, it's the middle of the three icons on the > bottom right, between "Repeat tags" and "Add new Tag". Wow, why couldn't it be that easy in JOSM! thanks ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Mapping things by importance

2009-06-12 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: > I hit that problem, the solution was to break anything over 2000 points > into multiple segments, if you have your changes saved to a file I'd be > happy to have a crack at getting it to upload for you. the lachlan file is 4.5MB and the bidgee file 2.6MB

Re: [talk-au] Mass realignment of roads? (was Mapping things by importance)

2009-06-12 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009, Franc Carter wrote: > Yes, back in my early osm days I yahoo'd Saint Clair in Western Sydney, > only to fin much > later when I went out with a gps that the alignment was really bad ;-( Can't locate the place right now - it was somewhere between Penrith and Campbelltown. --

Re: [talk-au] Mass realignment of roads? (was Mapping things by importance)

2009-06-12 Thread Franc Carter
Yes, back in my early osm days I yahoo'd Saint Clair in Western Sydney, only to fin much later when I went out with a gps that the alignment was really bad ;-( On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Liz wrote: > On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: > > > I've come to the realisation that every ro

Re: [talk-au] paperless OSM mapping

2009-06-12 Thread Delta Foxtrot
If anyone has an Android based device, which I'm guessing wouldn't be many especially in Australia at present, I have a mostly working app that displays a OSM or Google Map and then your movements are plotted over the top so you can see where you've been. I also added voice recording and the ab

Re: [talk-au] Mapping things by importance

2009-06-12 Thread Delta Foxtrot
--- On Fri, 12/6/09, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Changes_V0.5_to_V0.6 ta > because at this point we can't upload stuff with > too many relations and too many points, and the Lachlan > changes won't upload, so I have to draw it all out > again. I hit

Re: [talk-au] Mapping things by importance

2009-06-12 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: > Big API change? http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Protocol_Changes_V0.5_to_V0.6 because at this point we can't upload stuff with too many relations and too many points, and the Lachlan changes won't upload, so I have to draw it all out again. -

Re: [talk-au] Mass realignment of roads? (was Mapping things by importance)

2009-06-12 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: > --- On Fri, 12/6/09, Liz wrote: > > I'll ask the offspring. He is 7/8 of a surveyor > > with one semester to go! > > Can you also ask the bearing the drift is going, all I've been able to find > out is approx north or north north east, but haven't been a

Re: [talk-au] Mapping things by importance

2009-06-12 Thread Delta Foxtrot
--- On Fri, 12/6/09, Liz wrote: > That was what I did one day when it was too hot to do > anything else. > > However, most of it is very rough, and if anyone wants to > retrace any parts more accurately I will not be the least > upset. Some parts of rivers I have traced are very rough as the r

Re: [talk-au] Mass realignment of roads? (was Mapping things by importance)

2009-06-12 Thread Delta Foxtrot
--- On Fri, 12/6/09, Liz wrote: > But we can improve the accuracy over time as DF notes. Well according to wikipedia, there are 31 US NAVSTAR sats broadcasting, the chinese are planning to put up 35, the europeans are planning 27 and the russians plan to have their system back up to 30 by 201

Re: [talk-au] Mapping things by importance

2009-06-12 Thread Liz
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: > I've traced a number of water ways, mostly from yahoo sat imagery and ABS > boundaries, that flow into the Darling river system, someone else had > already done the Darling from Bourke to the Murray, but not much apart from > a few rivers skirting towns h

Re: [talk-au] Mass realignment of roads? (was Mapping things by importance)

2009-06-12 Thread Liz
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009, Delta Foxtrot wrote: > > I've come to the realisation that every road (and > > everything that was placed in reference to the roads) in the > > suburb where I live is out by about 8-10m. Much of > > Brisbane's road system seems to have been traced off the > > Yahoo imagery, app

Re: [talk-au] Mass realignment of roads? (was Mapping things by importance)

2009-06-12 Thread Delta Foxtrot
--- On Fri, 12/6/09, James Livingston wrote: > Unless you have a known point of reference, clearly visible > in the imagery and placed via something accurate (i.e. gps), > they can be out a fair bit. You can also get into datum issues, OSM uses WGS84, which differs from DGA94 by about 1m at p