Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-19 Thread Mark Pulley
On 15/06/2011, at 3:15 PM, John Smith wrote: The current boundaries will be removed in the near future, so if I were you I wouldn't spend to much time fussing over them. Some of these boundaries have been edited to include highway=* and waterway=* tags (mainly in areas with (at the time) no

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-19 Thread John Smith
On 19 June 2011 19:32, Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au wrote: Some of these boundaries have been edited to include highway=* and waterway=* tags (mainly in areas with (at the time) no good imagery). How easy is it to get a list of these ways? Now that better imagery is available, now would

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-19 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 19:32:58 +1000 Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au wrote: On 15/06/2011, at 3:15 PM, John Smith wrote: The current boundaries will be removed in the near future, so if I were you I wouldn't spend to much time fussing over them. Some of these boundaries have been edited

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-19 Thread Mark Pulley
On 19/06/2011, at 7:56 PM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: most of those places don't have better imagery, certainly not the places I did. Some places do have better imagery, or in some cases GPS traces (I noticed today some of the Barrier Hwy north of Burra is done on a relation - I have too much

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-19 Thread Grant Slater
On 15 June 2011 06:15, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 June 2011 12:16, Gary Gallagher g.null.dev...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working on my suburb (Brunswick East), and keep coming across tangled messes of ways caused by the boundary data effectively floating above

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-19 Thread Elizabeth Dodd
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:10:47 +1000 Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au wrote: And as they won't be pulled from fosm why should I be concerned? Did you get out of bed on the wrong side this morning? Not everyone here has decided to give up on OSM. I'm going to decide once I see what

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-19 Thread Richard Fairhurst
Elizabeth Dodd wrote: I was invited to join a CC-by-SA project, was aware of which licence was appropriate for me at the time of joining, and will not be part of the obscure and doubtbul licence project. Fair enough. As of today, contributions to OSM are ODbL+CT only. Guess that's you

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-19 Thread Mark Pulley
Quoting Elizabeth Dodd ed...@billiau.net: On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:10:47 +1000 Mark Pulley mrpul...@lizzy.com.au wrote: And as they won't be pulled from fosm why should I be concerned? Did you get out of bed on the wrong side this morning? Rudeness won't get you anywhere. Actually, my

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-19 Thread James Andrewartha
On 20 June 2011 05:00, Richard Fairhurst rich...@systemed.net wrote: Elizabeth Dodd wrote: I was invited to join a CC-by-SA project, was aware of which licence was appropriate for me at the time of joining, and will not be part of the obscure and doubtbul licence project. Fair enough. As

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-19 Thread John Henderson
On 20/06/11 11:49, James Andrewartha wrote: Ah, that welcoming OSM spirit. Yes, it's easy to forget sometimes that we're all friends here. John H ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-17 Thread Steve Bennett
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:42 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: That is the reason why very little effort has been expended mapping Australia lately, until we know what skeleton of data we'll have left to work with after the changeover. If you want to map for OSM at the moment,

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-17 Thread John Smith
On 17 June 2011 18:38, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:42 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: That is the reason why very little effort has been expended mapping Australia lately, until we know what skeleton of data we'll have left to work with

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-16 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:15 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: The current boundaries will be removed in the near future, so if I were you I wouldn't spend to much time fussing over them. Oh? Do tell? Steve ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-16 Thread David Murn
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 11:14 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:15 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: The current boundaries will be removed in the near future, so if I were you I wouldn't spend to much time fussing over them. Oh? Do tell? All ABS boundaries

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-16 Thread Alex (Maxious) Sadleir
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 11:42 AM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 11:14 +1000, Steve Bennett wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 3:15 PM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com wrote: The current boundaries will be removed in the near future, so if I were you I

[talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-15 Thread Nick Hocking
Gary wrote... I've been working on my suburb (Brunswick East), and keep coming across tangled messes of ways caused by the boundary data effectively floating above different ways. Roads are being connected to the boundary instead of the the road. The road or other way has been moved to create a

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-15 Thread Gary Gallagher
Thanks for all the comments, I think I'll hold off. It does seem unfortunate that there is no basic work-flow to convert a boundary into a relation containing the ways that make it up. From what you've said Nick merging nodes still keeps them as separate ways just stacked on top of each other -

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-15 Thread John Smith
On 16 June 2011 15:01, Gary Gallagher g.null.dev...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for all the comments, I think I'll hold off. It does seem unfortunate that there is no basic work-flow to convert a boundary into a relation containing the ways that make it up. From what you've said Nick merging nodes

[talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-14 Thread Gary Gallagher
I've been working on my suburb (Brunswick East), and keep coming across tangled messes of ways caused by the boundary data effectively floating above different ways. Roads are being connected to the boundary instead of the the road. The road or other way has been moved to create a clear path for

Re: [talk-au] rationalising administrative boundaries

2011-06-14 Thread John Smith
On 15 June 2011 12:16, Gary Gallagher g.null.dev...@gmail.com wrote: I've been working on my suburb (Brunswick East), and keep coming across tangled messes of ways caused by the boundary data effectively floating above different ways. Roads are being connected to the boundary instead of the