Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-27 Thread Liz
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Liz wrote: 1433 nodes split it into 600+ and 700+, still couldn't upload the change. I wait on the bug report - someone has another problem with relations and they may be related problems Merkaartor let me bypass the problem and split the way however, now one length has

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-27 Thread Franc Carter
I'll give some thought to how to fix this. If we have find that there are still issues after the bug fixs (i.e the editors can't split them in to smaller bits), I think I can work out how to delete the way, upload replacement shorter ways and link them back in to the relation cheers On Mon, Apr

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-27 Thread Darrin Smith
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:40:04 +1000 Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Liz wrote: 1433 nodes split it into 600+ and 700+, still couldn't upload the change. I wait on the bug report - someone has another problem with relations and they may be related problems Merkaartor

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-27 Thread Liz
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009, Darrin Smith wrote: I'm working on 2 relations like this on KI that sound like they are having the same kind of issue. ANY edit of any form to the relation would cause an error - EXCEPT deleting I eventually tried on one of them. So I've just kept a copy of all the details

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-26 Thread Liz
On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Franc Carter wrote: Hmm, one thing that I forgot to check is the number of nodes in the ways - I seem to remember that 0.6 was going to introduce a limit on this . . . . cheers The limit is 2000, and the involved way

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-26 Thread Ian Sergeant
Thanks for the comments on this. It appears that the practice is that when it is apparent to a knowledgeable mapper that the ABS data should align with another OSM way, we apply the relation to the OSM way and alter the OSM way if required, after giving due consideration to the accuracy of the

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-25 Thread Liz
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Liz wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Franc Carter wrote: I'm currently wrestling with trying to get a handle on how we can tell whether the ABS data is more geographically accurate than yahoo or other data (not necessairly whether it is an accuate reflection of the

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-25 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009, Franc Carter wrote: Hmm, one thing that I forgot to check is the number of nodes in the ways - I seem to remember that 0.6 was going to introduce a limit on this . . . . cheers The limit is 2000, and the involved way 1,400 or so, but it might be a clue; if i break the

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-19 Thread Ben Kelley
Hi. I think I'm with Darren on all counts. I think the only thing I'd add is where local knowledge tells you that the ABS data aligns to some previously unmapped feature (e.g. a river) that cannot be made out on Landsat (no Yahoo coverage). There I'm tempted to add the natural feature data to

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-19 Thread Darrin Smith
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:47:04 +1000 Ben Kelley ben.kel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi. I think I'm with Darren on all counts. I think the only thing I'd add is where local knowledge tells you that the ABS data aligns to some previously unmapped feature (e.g. a river) that cannot be made out on

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-19 Thread Liz
On Sun, 19 Apr 2009, Darrin Smith wrote: Know that feeling, I have several days of Easter holiday traces to go in also. *twiddles*thumbs* we were just catching up from December in our house, now the days are shorter, and have stuff waiting for upload more thumb twiddling

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-17 Thread Liz
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Franc Carter wrote: I'm currently wrestling with trying to get a handle on how we can tell whether the ABS data is more geographically accurate than yahoo or other data (not necessairly whether it is an accuate reflection of the boundaries) So, yes - thoughts please ABS

Re: [talk-au] Manipulating ABS suburb data, and related data..

2009-04-16 Thread Franc Carter
I totally agee that it's a good idea to work this out, I've been silent on the matter because I'm far from clear as to what is a good approach. I'm currently wrestling with trying to get a handle on how we can tell whether the ABS data is more geographically accurate than yahoo or other data (not