Re: [talk-au] tennis court land

2010-02-22 Thread David Murn
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 18:20 +1000, John Smith wrote: On 22 February 2010 17:56, Roy Wallace waldo000...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not sure but being traced and annotated makes it much *easier* for people to retrieve information about your private property (e.g. through an API call).

Re: [talk-au] tennis court land

2010-02-22 Thread John Smith
On 22 February 2010 19:07, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: A water supply company could be interested to know how many pools are in an area to know what areas might have higher demand during filling season. But, a pool cleaning business in the future might search on the map to find

Re: [talk-au] tennis court land

2010-02-22 Thread David Murn
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 19:10 +1000, John Smith wrote: On 22 February 2010 19:07, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: A water supply company could be interested to know how many pools are in an area to know what areas might have higher demand during filling season. But, a pool cleaning

Re: [talk-au] tennis court land

2010-02-22 Thread John Smith
On 22 February 2010 19:31, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: No, what Im say(ing) is, Im unsure if theres a privacy issue, and asking for others opinions or if theres any precedents to follow (other than the court cases brought against google for invasion of privacy). I really can't

Re: [talk-au] tennis court land

2010-02-22 Thread John Smith
On 22 February 2010 19:43, Liz ed...@billiau.net wrote: I'm concerned about marking what are actual terrorist targets (not the media frenzy type terrorists who are at airports) telephone exchange, communications tower, power lines things not usually well mapped in commercial offerings but

Re: [talk-au] tennis court land

2010-02-22 Thread Steve Bennett
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:28 PM, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: Ive been wondering about the idea of mapping private pools in the same way as private tennis courts have been marked, but been worried about some issues, particularly privacy.  With the mapping of tennis courts taking

Re: [talk-au] tennis court land

2010-02-22 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:20 AM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Personally I don't think it's reasonable to map anything on a residential property I wonder if any lawyer/privacy expert/etc. has written on this subject before... ___ Talk-au

Re: [talk-au] tennis court land

2010-02-22 Thread Luke Woolley
Well the story is, I just happened to be drawing roads in Portsea one day and I thought it would be a bit of a laugh to show off how the rich holidaymakers spend their time! People say Portsea has a tennis culture, now the map proves it! I am curious to know if Portsea has the highest

Re: [talk-au] tennis court land

2010-02-22 Thread John Smith
On 23 February 2010 07:20, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Personally I don't think it's reasonable to map anything on a residential property, particularly not anything that can't be seen from the street. I'm not sure why lakeboy did all this, but my preference would be to tag it

Re: [talk-au] tennis court land

2010-02-22 Thread David Murn
On Tue, 2010-02-23 at 08:20 +1100, Steve Bennett wrote: Personally I don't think it's reasonable to map anything on a residential property, particularly not anything that can't be seen from the street. Because, people in the air could be helped by being able to reference pools, power lines or

Re: [talk-au] tennis court land

2010-02-22 Thread David Murn
On Mon, 2010-02-22 at 20:43 +1100, Liz wrote: I'm concerned about marking what are actual terrorist targets (not the media frenzy type terrorists who are at airports) telephone exchange, communications tower, power lines things not usually well mapped in commercial offerings but which if

Re: [talk-au] tennis court land

2010-02-22 Thread John Smith
On 23 February 2010 12:50, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: Havent you heard the new technique? These days the PR arm of the media-terrorists simply have to say 'were planning something at airport xyz' and the government machine will kick into action and cause chaos at the airport

Re: [talk-au] tennis court land

2010-02-22 Thread Steve Bennett
Heh, yeah, I assumed it was something like that. It's ok to have the data in there, I guess, but I don't think it should render on the default mapnik. If for no other reason than we want *public* tennis courts to be visible, and all those private ones just create a lot of noise. Maybe not an

Re: [talk-au] tennis court land

2010-02-22 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 9:31 AM, Nick Hocking nick.hock...@gmail.com wrote: Personally I don't think it's reasonable to map anything on a residential property What about 1) The number on the letter box 2) A power pole that happens to be present on a private block 3) The roofline (as in

Re: [talk-au] tennis court land

2010-02-22 Thread Roy Wallace
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: ... I don't think it should render on the default mapnik. If for no other reason than we want *public* tennis courts to be visible, and all those private ones just create a lot of noise. Just add access=private (or

Re: [talk-au] tennis court land

2010-02-22 Thread Steve Bennett
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Luke Woolley lswool...@gmail.com wrote: Mainly because I normally give landuses a -3 layer and for things that sit just above or directly on the ground I give the next layer up. Probably doesn't need it, but it will do no harm being there. Ah, I had wondered

Re: [talk-au] tennis court land

2010-02-21 Thread Jim Croft
It could be argued that the location of pools, even if private, would be a valuable knowledgebase in fire and other emergencies. You are not saying whose pool it is, or who has a pool, only that there is a pool at this location. But I would nevertheless be interested in the privacy implications,

Re: [talk-au] tennis court land

2010-02-21 Thread John Smith
On 22 February 2010 13:28, David Murn da...@incanberra.com.au wrote: Ive been wondering about the idea of mapping private pools in the same way as private tennis courts have been marked, but been worried about some issues, particularly privacy. With the mapping of tennis courts How are there

Re: [talk-au] Tennis court land

2010-02-20 Thread Jim Croft
come the revolution, comrades! :) jim On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Steve Bennett stevag...@gmail.com wrote: Check it out: http://osm.org/go/uGm91mHAN- I cracked up when I saw it. We can blame lakeboy for this one... Steve ___ Talk-au