Re: [talk-au] Canberra Mapping - out of date

2011-05-09 Thread John Smith
On 8 May 2011 17:47, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 May 2011 10:33, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 21:22 +1000, Nick Hocking wrote: Unfortunately this has meant that Canberra OSM data is now badly out of date. I have recently heard of a

Re: [talk-au] Canberra Mapping - out of date

2011-05-08 Thread John Smith
On 5 May 2011 10:33, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 21:22 +1000, Nick Hocking wrote: Unfortunately this has meant that Canberra OSM data is now badly out of date. I have recently heard of a situation where up-to-date Canberra data could have been *extremely*

Re: [talk-au] Canberra Mapping - out of date

2011-05-06 Thread Franc Carter
On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 12:19 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 May 2011 10:47, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: This could almost be considered vandalism, what you are doing to the quality of the map data available for Canberra.  Please dont touch any of my

Re: [talk-au] Canberra Mapping - out of date

2011-05-05 Thread David Murn
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 21:22 +1000, Nick Hocking wrote: Unfortunately this has meant that Canberra OSM data is now badly out of date. I have recently heard of a situation where up-to-date Canberra data could have been *extremely* usefull to somebody. Just out of interest, I noticed youve been

Re: [talk-au] Canberra Mapping - out of date

2011-05-05 Thread David Murn
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 12:19 +1000, John Smith wrote: On 6 May 2011 10:47, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: You mentioned previously that Bing was out of alinement by up to 100m, if this is the case it is a clear case of vandalism since he should be at the vest least realigning Bing

Re: [talk-au] Canberra Mapping - out of date

2011-05-05 Thread Ian Sergeant
On 6 May 2011 10:47, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: I remember hearing once about someone writing some sort of plugin or database which kept a track of how offset parts of the bing imagery are, but never heard if it was successful or how extensive the coverage is.

Re: [talk-au] Canberra Mapping - out of date

2011-05-05 Thread David Murn
On Fri, 2011-05-06 at 14:02 +1000, Ian Sergeant wrote: On 6 May 2011 10:47, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: Given its age (over 10 years old in Canberra), and these nasty accuracy limitations anyone would be crazy to use it in preference to NearMap. Was surveying around Casey on

[talk-au] Canberra Mapping - out of date

2011-05-04 Thread Nick Hocking
Some time ago, I resolved not to do any more mapping in Australia until the three aus-forkers had well and truly forked off and taken their precious data with them. Unfortunately this has meant that Canberra OSM data is now badly out of date. I have recently heard of a situation where up-to-date

Re: [talk-au] Canberra Mapping - out of date

2011-05-04 Thread Neal Schulz
misplaced. Regards, Neal - Original Message - From: Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com To: talk-au@openstreetmap.org Sent: Wednesday, 4 May, 2011 9:22:44 PM Subject: [talk-au] Canberra Mapping - out of date Some time ago, I resolved not to do any more mapping in Australia

Re: [talk-au] Canberra Mapping - out of date

2011-05-04 Thread David Murn
On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 21:22 +1000, Nick Hocking wrote: Unfortunately this has meant that Canberra OSM data is now badly out of date. I have recently heard of a situation where up-to-date Canberra data could have been *extremely* usefull to somebody. As an active Canberra mapper, exactly which