Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap in Government

2013-05-10 Thread Ian Sergeant
On 10 May 2013 17:01, Steve Bennett wrote: > 3) There are decades of practice in cartography to learn from. We > might as well go with existing practice in current 4WD maps. The > standard distinctions seem to be something like 4WD/2WD/dirt/sealed, > and sometimes one more category indicating so

Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap in Government

2013-05-10 Thread Paul Norman
> From: David [mailto:dban...@internode.on.net] > Sent: Thursday, May 09, 2013 10:48 PM > Subject: Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap in Government > > Further, so much OSM data ends up in a psql database, one > column per tag. Believe it or not, psql does not like having column > names start with numera

Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap in Government

2013-05-10 Thread Michael Gratton
On 10/05/13 17:01, Steve Bennett wrote: > 1) I think TileMill/MapBox will be a game changer for the "rendering > guys won't listen to us" problem. I suspect it will soon be much, much > easier to have lots of different map views out there, and we can > create Australian-specific maps easily. So we

Re: [talk-au] OpenStreetMap in Government

2013-05-10 Thread Steve Bennett
Hi all, This is a really interesting discussion, and thanks for the insights about Australia vs Europe vs US. A few comments: 1) I think TileMill/MapBox will be a game changer for the "rendering guys won't listen to us" problem. I suspect it will soon be much, much easier to have lots of differe