Re: [talk-au] Hikers on this list?

2010-06-17 Thread John Henderson
On 17/06/10 15:48, John Smith wrote: I knew someone had brought it up in the past, but I'm wondering if we could map it as an area rather than a line? Arguably the best approach would be to mark the wilderness area as such, and perhaps show any tracks stopping at the boundaries. Others may

Re: [talk-au] Hikers on this list?

2010-06-17 Thread John Smith
On 17 June 2010 15:59, John Henderson snow...@gmx.com wrote: On 17/06/10 15:48, John Smith wrote: I knew someone had brought it up in the past, but I'm wondering if we could map it as an area rather than a line? Arguably the best approach would be to mark the wilderness area as such, and

Re: [talk-au] Proposal to update weather monitoring_stations using BoM data.

2010-06-17 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, you wrote: 3. Examples: Beaudesert Drumley Street http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/774393256 or: Hay Airport http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/774393252 * Completely new site; BoM data lists WMO:id which doesn't occur in any

Re: [talk-au] Hikers on this list?

2010-06-17 Thread Richard Colless
Do you have any suggestions on how contours should be marked? eg every 10m elevation, or 5 or 50 or ... ? In regard to contours, the maps from Contours Australia work really well. For Garmin devices, they can be downloaded concurrently with OSM maps. I have been using them in this way

Re: [talk-au] Hikers on this list?

2010-06-17 Thread Tom Brennan
On 17/06/2010 11:30 AM, John Smith wrote: On Thu, June 17, 2010 4:27 pm, tom.bren...@ampcapital.com wrote: Do you have any suggestions on how contours should be marked? eg every 10m elevation, or 5 or 50 or ... ? Depends on the scale of the map. 1:25000 maps are typically rendered with 10m or

Re: [talk-au] Hikers on this list?

2010-06-17 Thread Tom Brennan
On 17/06/2010 3:46 PM, John Henderson wrote: I may have raised this issue in the past. Walking tracks are never signposted or otherwise marked through declared wilderness areas. This includes some sections of the Australian Alps Walking Track. Maps should not show tracks in those specific

Re: [talk-au] Hikers on this list?

2010-06-17 Thread John Smith
On 17 June 2010 22:38, Richard Colless fire...@ar.com.au wrote: In regard to contours, the maps from Contours Australia work really well. For Garmin devices, they can be downloaded concurrently with OSM maps. I have been using them in this way in my Etrex for about 6 months now. I've imported

Re: [talk-au] Hikers on this list?

2010-06-17 Thread John Smith
On 17 June 2010 23:08, Tom Brennan webs...@ozultimate.com wrote: Depends on the scale of the map. 1:25000 maps are typically rendered with 10m or 20m contours. Every 5th or 10th contour should be in bold. I'm used to mapnik zoom levels, I'll have to figure out what 1:25000 represents, although

Re: [talk-au] Hikers on this list?

2010-06-17 Thread Tom Brennan
On 17/06/2010 11:25 PM, John Smith wrote: navigation are: - tracks - render as dashed black line Can you put this in OSM terms? What do you mean by OSM terms (I'm a bit of a newbie) something like highway=track, grade=3 ? OK - highway=path - dashed black line - highway=track+car=no - long

Re: [talk-au] Hikers on this list?

2010-06-17 Thread John Smith
On 18 June 2010 00:18, Tom Brennan webs...@ozultimate.com wrote: No they haven't. Area is approx lat=-33.9753lon=150.1336 but it's not a great area to start with. Geographic items are difficult to map without good quality aerial photography, which we don't have for that area (Kanangra).

Re: [talk-au] Hikers on this list?

2010-06-17 Thread John Henderson
On 17/06/10 23:13, Tom Brennan wrote: Not always true. For example, from the Plan of Management for Kanangra Boyd National Park Existing walking tracks on the Kanangra Tops within the wilderness (as indicated on the map on the central pages of this plan) will be retained and managed to

[talk-au] Fwd: [transit-developers] NSW Public Transport changes license terms to CC-BY-SA

2010-06-17 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
Pro: Stop/Station/Wharf locations in compatible licence Con: Licence not compatible with OSM for very much longer : -- Forwarded message -- From: Noam Ben Haim noa...@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 7:09 AM Subject: [transit-developers] NSW Public Transport changes license

Re: [talk-au] Residential landuse

2010-06-17 Thread Ben Kelley
From a local govt point of view these are different to both rural and residential. Normally the lot size would be too small to make a living from. A hobby farm could have a rural zoning. - Ben. Sent from my HTC -Original Message- From: John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com Sent:

[talk-au] Natural Earth Data

2010-06-17 Thread Ben Last
Anyone know if this has any relationship to OSM (i.e, is partly derived from OSM, or has been used as a basis for OSM)? http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ Cheers b -- Ben Last Development Manager (HyperWeb) NearMap Pty Ltd ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Hikers on this list?

2010-06-17 Thread John Smith
I've started building up some map layers, so far I have a base layer, as well as shifting contours to their own layer, but only for select areas due to lack of hdd space, so far only Bris and Syd. http://maps.bigtincan.com/?z=17ll=-26.372,152.838layer=BFFFTFF From there I plan to start

Re: [talk-au] Natural Earth Data

2010-06-17 Thread Sam Vekemans
Cool, No idea about the legals. ... it looks like it's Public Domain... But i think it does help with the GroundTruthPlanet Contour Garmin Maps than im making :) As well as serves as the good grid for the WikiMAP Books that im working on. Great Find, Cheers, Sam On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 8:24