Re: [talk-au] Blind obedience following routing tools.

2012-12-10 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 5:48 PM, David Bannon dban...@internode.on.netwrote: I guess people are aware of this story, people in trouble for following badly constructed maps - http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-12-10/apple-maps-strands-motorists-looking-for-mildura/4418400 Looks like its to be

Re: [talk-au] Blind obedience following routing tools.

2012-12-10 Thread Steve Bennett
(whoops, wrong button) The weird error on Bing Maps: http://binged.it/RlH1PC The real Mt Buller can be seen 50km to the north. This error means if you route from Mansfield to Mt Buller (less than a 1 hour drive) it takes all the way back to Melbourne then via Licola - over 7 hours. Steve On

[talk-au] cities changed to towns

2012-12-10 Thread Chris Barham
Hi, some Australian places have changed from cities to towns on; changeset was: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/changeset/14217241 I've emailed to the editor to ask the source for the change as I believe some are now incorrect. I really do think Gympie, Maryborough, Warwick and Charters

Re: [talk-au] cities changed to towns

2012-12-10 Thread Steve Bennett
Hi Chris, Interesting topic - sadly the wiki just acknowledges the lack of an answer. My take is that the distinction between village/town/city really only matters for the purpose of rendering anyway - any more sophisticated use of the data is going to use population figures to make its own

Re: [talk-au] cities changed to towns

2012-12-10 Thread Nick Hocking
According to NSW Government Gazette 1885, vol. I. NSW Government. 1885-03-20 Goulburn was officially proclaimed a City on 20 March 1885 This user has changed Goulburn from a city to a town amazing ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] cities changed to towns

2012-12-10 Thread John Henderson
On 11/12/12 09:17, Chris Barham wrote: I really do think Gympie, Maryborough, Warwick and Charters Towers are cities, and should have remained tagged as such. Are there others, in other states, within this changeset that should have stayed as is? I remember the fact that Warwick officially

Re: [talk-au] cities changed to towns

2012-12-10 Thread Michael James
On 11/12/12 13:26, John Henderson wrote: On 11/12/12 09:17, Chris Barham wrote: I really do think Gympie, Maryborough, Warwick and Charters Towers are cities, and should have remained tagged as such. Are there others, in other states, within this changeset that should have stayed as is?

Re: [talk-au] cities changed to towns

2012-12-10 Thread John Henderson
On 11/12/12 15:02, Michael James wrote: Warwick - April 1936 Thanks - it must have been an anniversary celebration that I remember from the mid 70s. They certainly made a fuss about being a city. John ___ Talk-au mailing list