Re: [talk-au] Floodways ?

2010-04-06 Thread Richard Colless
I've used waterway=drain for some of the other waterways in this area - scroll north a bit from Franc's map to see the drain that runs between Dunn Street and Topham Road. That's a real drain - even looks like the picture in the Wiki. But I assume Franc is referring to the large grassed area

Re: [talk-au] Floodways ?

2010-04-06 Thread John Smith
On 6 April 2010 18:24, Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au wrote: the blocks of houses. They don't look like drains at all. And they are very common in the Macarthur region. They're storm water drains, just not concrete ones... ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Floodways ?

2010-04-06 Thread Richard Colless
Yes, but how would you map them? The ones at Narellan are about 50 metres wide, and I know of others that are wider. Too wide for a single line like a concrete drain. John Smith wrote: On 6 April 2010 18:24, Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au wrote: the blocks of houses. They

Re: [talk-au] Floodways ?

2010-04-06 Thread John Smith
On 6 April 2010 19:14, Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au wrote: Yes, but how would you map them? The ones at Narellan are about 50 metres wide, and I know of others that are wider. Too wide for a single line like a concrete drain. I've mapped them in the past as a single centreline, rather

Re: [talk-au] NearMap now have OSM opaque maps as well as overlays

2010-04-06 Thread Ben Last
Actually, it's just the standard mapnik styles from the download as far as colours are concerned - we've not yet done any serious editing to it (except for hiding some overlays at some zoom levels). It doesn't look like the actual style files that the OSM site uses are available (or if they are,

Re: [talk-au] NearMap now have OSM opaque maps as well as overlays

2010-04-06 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Ben Last ben.l...@nearmap.com wrote: It doesn't look like the actual style files that the OSM site uses are available (or if they are, they're not easy to find). I'm guessing it's this one (?):