Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-19 Thread David Bannon
On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 19:13 +1100, Andrew Harvey wrote: Just a heads up that GA have a tile service for their NATMAP 250K Topo Maps. Thanks Andrew, I thought the list might be interested in a few comments about this service. Firstly, really cool that they are doing it ! Putting aside the

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-19 Thread mick
On Wed, 20 Nov 2013 08:34:46 +1100 David Bannon dban...@internode.on.net wrote: On Wed, 2013-11-13 at 19:13 +1100, Andrew Harvey wrote: Just a heads up that GA have a tile service for their NATMAP 250K Topo Maps. Thanks Andrew, I thought the list might be interested in a few comments

Re: [talk-au] Geoscience NATMAP 250K Topo Maps

2013-11-19 Thread David Bannon
On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 10:32 +1100, mick wrote: To gain some confidence in what I've collected I plan to drive as many roads in my area of interest (Glen Innes, NSW) several times with my two GPS units recording and find an acceptable level of coincidence before I add anything to OSM.

[talk-au] Fwd: {Adelaide Metro Developer Group} Open Street Maps Contribution

2013-11-19 Thread Alex Sims
Hi, I met this afternoon with Garth Walker from the SA Government DPTI who’s using OpenStreetMap data with OpenJourneyPlanner for public transport journey planning on Adelaidemetro.com.au One thing that came up early on was a lot of footpaths crossing but not meeting highways giving them and

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: {Adelaide Metro Developer Group} Open Street Maps Contribution

2013-11-19 Thread Daniel O'Connor
Would be great to participate in that convo. Have being doing a lot of HOT stuff with Haiyan, and that has generated a lot of possibilities for what I do during work hours (property industry) - custom tiles, how quickly satellite data was acquired, use of the task manager. While my work

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: {Adelaide Metro Developer Group} Open Street Maps Contribution

2013-11-19 Thread Kate Chapman
Hi All, (Kate from HOT, but I come to Australia at least once a year so I lurk on here) I was going to suggest as another possibility a government sponsored Mapathon. It could be a good way to get some new mappers interested where having accurate transport routing is important to them