Re: [talk-au] Brisbane river

2015-07-20 Thread Phillip and Kerrie
Thanks, I will now go away and look into using a different tool set to get the data into QGIS. On 20 July 2015 at 15:51, Ross i...@4x4falcon.com wrote: Ok. So looking at this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1693549 The riverbank multipolygon is closed otherwise this would not

Re: [talk-au] Brisbane river

2015-07-20 Thread Phillip and Kerrie
Thank you Ross for the pointer about my tool chain. I have now found a much more comprehensive import tool set and am able to produce the picture that I am looking for. On 20 July 2015 at 16:26, Phillip and Kerrie phil...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, I will now go away and look into using a

Re: [talk-au] Brisbane river

2015-07-20 Thread Ross
Good. Cheers Ross On 21/07/15 06:35, Phillip and Kerrie wrote: Thank you Ross for the pointer about my tool chain. I have now found a much more comprehensive import tool set and am able to produce the picture that I am looking for. On 20 July 2015 at 16:26, Phillip and Kerrie

Re: [talk-au] Brisbane river

2015-07-20 Thread mick
On Mon, 20 Jul 2015 13:17:36 +1000 Phillip and Kerrie phil...@gmail.com wrote: HI, I recently downloaded the openstreetmap data for parts of South East Queensland. When I imported this data into GIS, I found that the waterways were not always closed objects. Having the wide rivers as

[talk-au] Brisbane river

2015-07-19 Thread Phillip and Kerrie
HI, I recently downloaded the openstreetmap data for parts of South East Queensland. When I imported this data into GIS, I found that the waterways were not always closed objects. Having the wide rivers as closed objects means that waterways import as polygons and that makes making good looking

Re: [talk-au] Brisbane river

2015-07-19 Thread Phillip and Kerrie
yes I would just be closing the river bank ways. And yes I am tagging for the renderer. I am making maps for my employer, in QGIS and mapinfo, and wanted to use the OMS data imported as lines and polygons as part of my background. For this to work with the QGIS importer the river banks need to

Re: [talk-au] Brisbane river

2015-07-19 Thread Ross
Guess it depends on how you go about this. I'm guessing that you intend to create waterway=riverbank[1] multipolygons for the rivers and leave the waterway=river[2] in place marking the centerline of the river. If so should not be a problem. Be careful that you are not tagging for the

Re: [talk-au] Brisbane river

2015-07-19 Thread Ross
Ok. So looking at this: http://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/1693549 The riverbank multipolygon is closed otherwise this would not render. It is a relation made up of 5 ways. Are you sure you are loading all the data? There are also limits on how many nodes you can have in a way, that's