[talk-au] Big WA trace #4

2010-10-26 Thread Sam Wilson
Hi, I don't know how many people on this list are on talk (where I mentioned this project), but I've just started uploading big traces from regional WA. They're fairly sparse (30s sampling rate) but cover a lot of ground. I thought I'd post here when I upload a new one, in case anyone's

Re: [talk-au] Big WA trace #4

2010-10-26 Thread Neil Penman
Hi, Thats quite a lot of travelling.  I've traced in a very small part of the data south of Southern Cross.  Do you have information on road names, surface and classifications? I've provisionally used unclassified for the highway types.

Re: [talk-au] outback SA street names

2010-10-26 Thread Richard Weait
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/4274375 Rosscoe surveyed the streets of Marree, and there are no street signs at all. From the comfort of his German home, staehler has determined the street names, adding in

Re: [talk-au] outback SA street names

2010-10-26 Thread Neil Penman
I could be wrong about this but  It looks to me like Rosscoe added the street names for Marree.  Most of the information in the changeset you referenced is for Coober Pedy.  As far as I can tell the guy was on holiday in Aus mapped Coober Pedy then traveled on through Marree adding the pub as

Re: [talk-au] outback SA street names

2010-10-26 Thread Ross Scanlon
Neil Penman wrote: I could be wrong about this but It looks to me like Rosscoe added the street names for Marree. Most of the information in the changeset you referenced is for Coober Pedy. As far as I can tell the guy was on holiday in Aus mapped Coober Pedy then traveled on through Marree

Re: [talk-au] outback SA street names

2010-10-26 Thread Ross Scanlon
referenced is for Coober Pedy. As far as I can tell the guy was on holiday in Aus mapped Coober Pedy then traveled on through Marree adding the pub as he went. The Coober Pedy ones look suspect as well. If you compare the Golf Cource (their spelling) with the mentioned commercial maps then

Re: [talk-au] outback SA street names

2010-10-26 Thread Ian Sergeant
As far as street names are concerned, we could just pick up the names for the streets currently unnamed by survey from the Atlas of SA, and attribute appropriately. If someone gets updated names from survey, they can update. Until then the temptation to just add them from a commercial map is

Re: [talk-au] outback SA street names

2010-10-26 Thread Neil Penman
Yes the Coober Pedy golf course is almost identical to the google maps representation.  Using google earth it does however seem to me that the golf course in that area (no grass of course) but the area marked on the maps only covers a small part of the total course, maybe the club house and