Re: [talk-au] Australian Coastline

2010-06-21 Thread Leon Kernan
There seems to be an unintended side effect to this statement: The maritime borders are 12nm out to sea from the coastline. Bass Strait seems to have been given over to international waters according to that statement. There are some weird lines around Vic / Tas and the Bass Strait islands at

Re: [talk-au] Australian Coastline

2010-06-21 Thread John Smith
On 21 June 2010 22:12, Leon Kernan lker...@gmail.com wrote: There seems to be an unintended side effect to this statement: The maritime borders are 12nm out to sea from the coastline. That is the general case, but in Qld I think it's 12nm from the edge of the barrier reef... Bass Strait seems

Re: [talk-au] Australian Coastline

2010-06-21 Thread Markus
interpreting it let me know. Markus _ From: talk-au-boun...@openstreetmap.org [mailto:talk-au-boun...@openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Leon Kernan Sent: Monday, 21 June 2010 9:43 PM To: OSM Australian Talk List Subject: Re: [talk-au] Australian Coastline There seems to be an unintended

Re: [talk-au] Australian Coastline

2010-05-25 Thread Markus
to cut down on the amount needed to download for a specific state. Markus -Original Message- From: John Smith [mailto:deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 25 May 2010 8:47 AM To: Markus Cc: OSM Australian Talk List Subject: Re: [talk-au] Australian Coastline On 24 May 2010 21:33

Re: [talk-au] Australian Coastline

2010-05-25 Thread John Smith
On 25 May 2010 20:01, Markus marku...@bigpond.com wrote: Are you able to explain how to check easily with JOSM if part of the coastline is missing? JOSM often complains too much about missing or lacking coastlines... With reading about all the rendering problems with coastline not being a

Re: [talk-au] Australian Coastline

2010-05-25 Thread Markus
-Original Message- From: John Smith [mailto:deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, 25 May 2010 7:38 PM To: Markus Cc: OSM Australian Talk List Subject: Re: [talk-au] Australian Coastline Are you able to explain how to check easily with JOSM if part of the coastline is missing

Re: [talk-au] Australian Coastline

2010-05-25 Thread John Smith
On 25 May 2010 20:28, Markus marku...@bigpond.com wrote: You still haven't explained how to check the whole coastline is joined with JOSM. You mensioned JOSM has a validation checker that should be used for this kind of thing. Click to display the validation plugin panel or press Alt+Shift+V

Re: [talk-au] Australian Coastline

2010-05-24 Thread Markus
The Coastline error checker doesn't appear to update very often. I have found the coastline checker still displays errors that I fixed a month ago. It also doesn't seem to always care about reversed coastline either. I use Mapsource with my garmin nuvi and it quite often has problems drawing

Re: [talk-au] Australian Coastline

2010-05-24 Thread Liz
On Tue, 25 May 2010, John Smith wrote: On 24 May 2010 21:33, Markus marku...@bigpond.com wrote: the coastline from mgkmap creations. I thought it would be a good exercise to see if relations will help. Error checking doesn't seem to me to be a good idea to use relations, JOSM has a

Re: [talk-au] Australian Coastline

2010-05-24 Thread John Smith
On 25 May 2010 09:28, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: Because I don't understand What are the disadvantages of using a relation? relations that big often have side effects when software can't handle it, even the OSM website itself times out when trying to show big relations.