Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread John Smith
On 9 June 2010 10:08, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: barrier=cattle_grid cattle_grid=cavaletti What about: barrier=horse_grid They aren't cattle grids, and they aren't proper cavalettis either from what I've seen, cavalettis seem to be horse jumps these barriers aren't meant to be

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread John Henderson
On 09/06/10 16:55, John Smith wrote: On 9 June 2010 10:08, John Hendersonsnow...@gmx.com wrote: barrier=cattle_grid cattle_grid=cavaletti What about: barrier=horse_grid They aren't cattle grids, and they aren't proper cavalettis either from what I've seen, cavalettis seem to be horse

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread John Smith
Just found something, it seems the brits refer to them as horse stiles... like a turnstile but for horses... ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread John Smith
On 9 June 2010 17:28, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Just found something, it seems the brits refer to them as horse stiles... like a turnstile but for horses... And the americans call them horse hops... ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread John Smith
On 9 June 2010 17:29, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 June 2010 17:28, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Just found something, it seems the brits refer to them as horse stiles... like a turnstile but for horses... And the americans call them horse hops... They

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread Simon Biber
John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: They seem to be called horse stiles in NZ, or maybe it was a brit taking photos in NZ... I found the website of an Australian business, Town Country Maintenance Fencing, based in northern Adelaide. There's a clear picture and a description on

Re: [talk-au] The nearmap effect

2010-06-09 Thread James Andrewartha
On 9 June 2010 11:20, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Err, and just now I notice that when you press b in Potlatch, instead of creating source=nearmap, it creates a tag like http://www.nearmap.com/kh/zxy=!,!,!;. Wonder when this change happened, and is that a bug? It sure looks like

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread Liz
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, John Smith wrote: Can you post any links to where you've seen these fixed barriers referred to anything but jumps? because if you can't prove it to JS you'll be mincemeat on the wiki ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread Liz
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Steve Bennett wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 7:14 AM, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: On trails which horses use, there's often a type of above-ground cattle grid called a cavaletti. Typically, it would consist of about 4 widely-spaced logs across the track at a

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread Liz
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010, Ben Last wrote: On 9 June 2010 12:47, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Most aussie maps show dirt roads as a dashed line, but this might upset/confuse the Europeans... Is there no tag for paved with gold? b well we should make one it may have limited use

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread John Smith
On 9 June 2010 20:04, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: well we should make one it may have limited use It'd be nice if there were some Australasian cartographers we could ask about these sorts of map design issues... ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread Franc Carter
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 9:29 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.comwrote: On 9 June 2010 09:04, Franc Carter franc.car...@gmail.com wrote: One of the things I most wished for from my pre gps days was for maps to have turn restrictions marked. Is there a good way to do this without

Re: [talk-au] The nearmap effect

2010-06-09 Thread James Livingston
On 09/06/2010, at 1:20 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: Err, and just now I notice that when you press b in Potlatch, instead of creating source=nearmap, it creates a tag like http://www.nearmap.com/kh/zxy=!,!,!;. Wonder when this change happened, and is that a bug? It sure looks like it... Did

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread John Smith
Looks like someone else was asking for the same things to be included already: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Proposed_features/New_barrier_types#other_new_values ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread John Henderson
On 09/06/10 17:28, John Smith wrote: Just found something, it seems the brits refer to them as horse stiles... like a turnstile but for horses... Rather than a turnstile, more like the existing barrier=stile, which allows a walker to cross a fence using rudimentary stairs/steps to climb it.

Re: [talk-au] The nearmap effect

2010-06-09 Thread Ben Last
If there's an extra URL parameter we can supply when launching Potlatch, that will specify the source string, that's an easy change that we can make. Cheers b On 9 June 2010 18:39, James Livingston li...@sunsetutopia.com wrote: On 09/06/2010, at 1:20 PM, Steve Bennett wrote: Err, and just now I

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread John Smith
On 10 June 2010 06:49, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: I'm more than happy to go with barrier=horse_stile, given that established usage. I'll change the cavalettis I've already tagged, and look at putting a note on the map features page when I take some photos. Can someone get a picture

Re: [talk-au] The nearmap effect

2010-06-09 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:39 PM, James Livingston li...@sunsetutopia.com wrote: Did you select Nearmap from the background-image setting, or use Edit on the Nearmap site? I did use the latter method once, but the behaviour persists each time I load openstreetmap, and in three different

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread Jim Croft
there is one near my place... will try and iPhone it this weekend... jim On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 10:33 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 June 2010 06:49, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: I'm more than happy to go with barrier=horse_stile, given that established usage.

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread Steve Bennett
Four messages in a row. Way to destroy a thread with verbal diarrhoea. *sigh* Steve On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 5:55 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 June 2010 17:29, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 June 2010 17:28, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread John Smith
On 10 June 2010 11:10, Jim Croft jim.cr...@gmail.com wrote: there is one near my place... will try and iPhone it this weekend... Thanks, in the mean time I wrote a stub page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dhorse_stile ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] The nearmap effect

2010-06-09 Thread David Murn
On Thu, 2010-06-10 at 10:56 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote: On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 8:39 PM, James Livingston li...@sunsetutopia.com wrote: Did you select Nearmap from the background-image setting, or use Edit on the Nearmap site? Yech. Who to blame, the way Nearmap launches Potlatch, or the

[talk-au] Fwd: Community Notification- Services Relocation

2010-06-09 Thread David Dean
Looks like NearMap or us need to talk to BrisConnections about attribution. - David -- Forwarded message -- From: Brendan Morley Date: 10 June 2010 13:10 Subject: Fwd: Community Notification- Services Relocation To: dd...@ieee.org FYI If you click CLICK HERE in the

Re: [talk-au] Community Notification- Services Relocation

2010-06-09 Thread David Dean
Whoops, In removing the formatting the link broke. The CLICK HERE linked to http://bridgemail.bigbridge.com.au/ch/21212/2dd7vq5/1247265/174e314xfc.pdf - David On 10 June 2010 14:26, David Dean dd...@ieee.org wrote: Looks like NearMap or us need to talk to BrisConnections about attribution.

Re: [talk-au] Things that would be nice if they rendered...

2010-06-09 Thread John Henderson
On 10/06/10 11:15, John Smith wrote: On 10 June 2010 11:10, Jim Croftjim.cr...@gmail.com wrote: there is one near my place... will try and iPhone it this weekend... Thanks, in the mean time I wrote a stub page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:barrier%3Dhorse_stile Shouldn't the page

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: Community Notification- Services Relocation

2010-06-09 Thread John Smith
On 10 June 2010 14:26, David Dean dd...@ieee.org wrote: Looks like NearMap or us need to talk to BrisConnections about attribution. It might have been better to contact them privately about this before resorting to making a fuss publicly, I'm not sure of Nearmap's take on it but it'd great if

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: Community Notification- Services Relocation

2010-06-09 Thread Roy Wallace
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:03 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 June 2010 14:26, David Dean dd...@ieee.org wrote: Looks like NearMap or us need to talk to BrisConnections about attribution. It might have been better to contact them privately about this before resorting to

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: Community Notification- Services Relocation

2010-06-09 Thread John Smith
On 10 June 2010 15:52, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 3:03 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 June 2010 14:26, David Dean dd...@ieee.org wrote: Looks like NearMap or us need to talk to BrisConnections about attribution. It might have been