Re: [talk-au] admin boundaries on garmin

2010-02-23 Thread Greg Harper
I have found the admin boundaries (suburbs were giving me the most grief) are really misleading for navigation too, particularly on smaller screens as Liz mentioned. I prefer to grab the ones from here osmaustralia.org as I don't have time to build my own. So when he does fix it, it will be

Re: [talk-au] no left turn

2009-08-27 Thread Greg Harper
It doesn't look like the No Left Turn was ever added: http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=-33.74503lon=151.06115zoom=17layers=B000FTF 2009/8/27 Liz ed...@billiau.net http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/27/2668014.htm did anyone map this on OSM?

Re: [talk-au] Would anyone buy one of these?

2009-08-21 Thread Greg Harper
I have a theory about hi-viz vests. Something I have noticed when geocaching. Younger people and busy office types ignore you but older people and those with too much time on their hands want to know what's going on. ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Funky video showing edits across 2008

2009-08-01 Thread Greg Harper
Thanks for sharing the link John. It's amazing to see a visual representation of the work done in OSM. I use the ITO site to keep an eye one areas I regularly map. Can anyone spot any of their own edits? 2009/8/1 John Smith delta_foxt...@yahoo.com http://vimeo.com/2598878

Re: [talk-au] Adopt-an-area

2009-07-12 Thread Greg Harper
Fiji is my adopted country. I traced a fair bit of the roads to hopefully inspire a local to start naming streets. There is finally at least one active mapper there armed with a GPS and uploading GPX files and naming streets, with another guy naming everything in Suva. I have been mainly mentoring

Re: [talk-au] boxes around cities

2008-09-02 Thread Greg Harper
Those boxes as Matt said are probably the Yahoo coverage extents (see the notes tag). They should only appear during editing and shouldn't render, unless they are something else. Cheers, Greg 2008/9/2 Matt White [EMAIL PROTECTED] I think it was to make it easy to work out where the imaging