Re: [talk-au] school zones

2009-06-23 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 23/6/09, b.schulz...@scu.edu.au b.schulz...@scu.edu.au wrote: Ha ha, I used to go to Epping Boys and would do the daily game of Frogger across 6 lanes, good fun! :p It's always fun and games till someone looses an eye :) Anyway, usefulness of school zones aside I'm thinking

Re: [talk-au] school zones

2009-06-23 Thread John Smith
Just to get the ball rolling, I've started a proposal page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:restriction%3Dschool_zone ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Running stats against GPX files ...

2009-06-23 Thread John Smith
For those interested in doing stats against GPX files, the automated uploads I setup are starting to collect a large number, almost 1000, of GPX files. The question is, is the information in these traces going to be useful, or just make noise. If the answer is mostly noise is there any

Re: [talk-au] Running stats against GPX files ...

2009-06-23 Thread Sam Couter
John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Tue, 23/6/09, Graeme Wilson wandere...@live.com.au wrote: I also think that the GPX file is too verbose with all the XML formatting, and reckon that it will fill up the servers with too much unnecessary stuff. I have been told that for

Re: [talk-au] Running stats against GPX files ...

2009-06-23 Thread John Smith
--- On Tue, 23/6/09, Sam Couter s...@couter.id.au wrote: It's true that XML is very verbose. However all that verbosity compresses extremely well, so it's not really a significant problem. If you'd had said the cost of hdd space was approaching zero I'd have agreed with you. When I was