Re: [talk-au] Trivia - Husband and Wife Team

2009-08-04 Thread Jack Burton
On Mon, 2009-08-03 at 23:37 +1000, Nick Hocking wrote: Apart from Victoria and Albert does anyone know of an example where A Husband and Wife have both had roads named after them and that these roads intersect. At the risk of seeming obvious, a more modern example: Elizabeth Way

Re: [talk-au] Junctions (to name or not to name)

2009-06-28 Thread Jack Burton
deficiency in the method most mappers are using to map un-named ways (although of course, as Darrin pointed out, those roundabouts [or link roads] that _do_ have names in the real world should of course be named in OSM too). Just my 2c worth... Regards, Jack Burton j...@saosce.com.au

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2009-02-05 Thread Jack Burton
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 21:16 +1030, Darrin Smith wrote: Futher to this I was looking back through this thread (thinking maybe about having a look at the data myself) and I James said: It's described as These boundaries have been based upon localities gazetted by the Geographic Place name

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2009-02-04 Thread Jack Burton
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 14:26 +1100, Franc Carter wrote: I just had a conversation with a really helpful person at the ABS. She indicated that the ABS is taking a view of the data that is very similar/compatible with (at least my understanding) the view that OpenStreetMap is taking towards the

Re: [talk-au] Adelaide out of copyright street directory

2009-01-18 Thread Jack Burton
On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 16:23 +1100, Patrick Jordan wrote: This is fairly definitive: http://www.copyright.org.au/pdf/acc/infosheets_pdf/G090.pdf/view?searchterm=maps maps remain in copyright until 70 years after the creator's death. Umm, doesn't that mean that the 1940 vintage street

Re: [talk-au] Suburb boundaries

2009-01-11 Thread Jack Burton
On Mon, 2009-01-12 at 17:06 +1030, Darrin Smith wrote: [On the single area option] Personally I think that is still the best approach (the only downside I can see with it would be if a suburb was not defined by a closed area - although I'd imagine that would be quite rare). However,

Re: [talk-au] secondary_link

2008-03-08 Thread Jack Burton
On Sun, 2008-03-09 at 18:37 +1100, Stuart Robinson wrote: Links are by default oneway, I think that's what the other person is getting at. Ah, I didn't realise that. I don't think most of the ways in question should be oneway, i.e. they allow both turning right from the (dual carriageway)