[talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread Richard Weait
Hi All, I've been working on better highway shield rendering in Canada and the US for a while. I added a few Australian shields today. My rendering of shields relies on the network tag as documented http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Relation:route#Road_Routes and

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 15:15:58 -0500 Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: If, in your future highway editing, you could update your network tags to the AU_NH, AU_NR, etc. form, that will mean that Australian shields will continue to render after I clean up the Dirty Hack(r). ;-) we now put

[talk-au] Locations of underground creeks

2011-01-03 Thread Steve Bennett
Hi all, I was having a look at trying to connect the end of scotchman's creek in Melbourne with where it runs into Gardiner's Creek. It disappears underground here: http://www.nearmap.com/?ll=-37.88404,145.090248z=21t=knmd=20101120 And reappears here:

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread John Smith
On 4 January 2011 06:15, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: To make these work well globally, the network tag should be namespaced with the country and if needed, the state / province. I've added the AU_ prefix to the Australian shields in the wiki link above. If you have a more thorough

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread Richard Weait
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 9:02 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 January 2011 06:15, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: To make these work well globally, the network tag should be namespaced with the country and if needed, the state / province.  I've added the AU_ prefix to

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread John Smith
On 4 January 2011 12:34, Richard Weait rich...@weait.com wrote: Two reasons, so far. We have found highways maintained outside the border of the expected jurisdiction. So a NY shield is required in Pennsylvania. But mostly because we have to describe the shield in the context of a file

Re: [talk-au] highway shields: AU

2011-01-03 Thread John Smith
On 4 January 2011 14:07, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: Then tag the exception, rather than everything, and in the case of Australia, which road exactly goes outside the country border? Oh almost forgot, if you have to do this, use an existing tag like addr:state=*

Re: [talk-au] Locations of underground creeks

2011-01-03 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 16:51:54 +1100 Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Yer, but GPS's don't work underground. you need an INS ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

[talk-au] What's happening in April? (was: Re: Suitable Garmin GPS Devices)

2011-01-03 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net wrote: On being able to add to the data - note that there is a split in the community over the new licence for OSM and some substantial contributors to the Australian map will provide no more data to OSM after April Fool's Day.

Re: [talk-au] What's happening in April? (was: Re: Suitable Garmin GPS Devices)

2011-01-03 Thread Sam Vekemans
/me is hoping that there will be multiple API instances globally so then the planet load can be shared. Ideally, designated country-specific APIs which require a unique login will be setup and ready for april 1st.. This makes for merging the API's at a later date (when the dust settles) MUCH