Re: [talk-au] Mapping surf breaks

2022-08-25 Thread Simon Slater
On Thursday, 25 August 2022 15:44:30 AEST Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: > Earlier I mentioned about the Kirra Superbank that only occurs a "few" > times per year. While the rest of the year is perfectly acceptable, those > few times are exceptional! (Think rides over 1 km long! :-)) I am definitely

Re: [talk-au] Mapping surf breaks

2022-08-25 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 at 17:34, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > Ssurfing_typical=* > > surfing_exceptional=* > Yep, that'd probably work. Another one I thought of is swell_period=xx seconds Thanks Graeme ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Mapping surf breaks

2022-08-25 Thread Warin
On 25/8/22 15:44, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 at 11:43, Josh Marshall wrote: I tasked the kid with drawing the ideal surf map, and he’s really stuck into it… and it’s given me more to think about how the features should be drawn. Please do share when ready,

Re: [talk-au] Mapping surf breaks

2022-08-24 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Thu, 25 Aug 2022 at 11:43, Josh Marshall wrote: > > I tasked the kid with drawing the ideal surf map, and he’s really stuck > into it… and it’s given me more to think about how the features should be > drawn. > Please do share when ready, as I am also well & truly *not* a surfer! (I'm

Re: [talk-au] Mapping surf breaks

2022-08-24 Thread Josh Marshall
Hi Graeme and all, I tasked the kid with drawing the ideal surf map, and he’s really stuck into it… and it’s given me more to think about how the features should be drawn. On 25 Aug 2022, at 9:20 am, Graeme Fitzpatrick wrote: Wondering whether you need to have conditional at all? How about

Re: [talk-au] Mapping surf breaks

2022-08-24 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 at 23:00, Josh Marshall wrote: > The primary "conditions" are swell direction and size, wind direction and > tide. I have yet to fully think them through, but my instinction is to do > it in a fashion similar to `:conditional` ( >

Re: [talk-au] Mapping surf breaks

2022-08-24 Thread Josh Marshall
Hi Frederik, At first I was a little annoyed at what I thought to be obvious things to consider in your message, as what I am trying to do with this discussion is exactly to cover those issues... but I always run a little search first, and that very much changed my tune to saying I am quite

Re: [talk-au] Mapping surf breaks

2022-08-24 Thread Warin
On 24/8/22 20:45, Frederik Ramm wrote: Hi, non-Australian and non-surfer here but please remember that stuff you map in OSM must be reasonably verifiable. If you map a great surf spot which only exists when some external conditions align, then it might be hard for others to verify (they'd

Re: [talk-au] Mapping surf breaks

2022-08-24 Thread Phil Wyatt
/Hobart/seven_mile_point/index.html https://surfing-waves.com/atlas/asia/indonesia/bali.html Cheers - Phil From: Andrew Harvey Sent: Wednesday, 24 August 2022 2:21 PM To: Jake Coppinger ; Josh Marshall Cc: OSM Aust Discussion List Subject: Re: [talk-au] Mapping surf breaks

Re: [talk-au] Mapping surf breaks

2022-08-24 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, non-Australian and non-surfer here but please remember that stuff you map in OSM must be reasonably verifiable. If you map a great surf spot which only exists when some external conditions align, then it might be hard for others to verify (they'd have to wait for the conditions to

Re: [talk-au] Mapping surf breaks

2022-08-24 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Wed, 24 Aug 2022 at 14:24, Andrew Harvey wrote: > > Points or areas should be good. Would linear ways make sense sometimes? > Right hand side could indicate direction waves break? > How would you go with areas that only work on occasion, usually when the wind & waves are just right e.g.

Re: [talk-au] Mapping surf breaks

2022-08-23 Thread Andrew Harvey
On Tue, 23 Aug 2022 at 18:18, Josh Marshall wrote: > Are there any concerns on me taking the idea and running with it? It would > be good at least to flesh out the wiki page on what tags can or should be > applied. I already have a spreadsheet from the grommie on the various > attributes of a

Re: [talk-au] Mapping surf breaks

2022-08-23 Thread Jake Coppinger
> tl;dr - I’m interested in getting more surfing-centric tagging into OSM, hopefully leading to an open surfing map. As an avid surfer (Sydney region) and OSM contributor I love the sound of this! Something I note that is missing on the wiki (

Re: [talk-au] Mapping surf breaks

2022-08-23 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 23 Aug 2022 at 22:35, Josh Marshall wrote: > And better yet, why aren't our beaches, like the typical patrolled > locations marked in such a way as that swimming_area too? > After creating the lifeguard tag, I've now worked out that this seems to be the best combo for mapping all the

Re: [talk-au] Mapping surf breaks

2022-08-23 Thread Josh Marshall
On Tue, 23 Aug 2022 at 20:02, Warin <61sundow...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23/8/22 18:15, Josh Marshall wrote: > > tl;dr - I’m interested in getting more surfing-centric tagging into OSM, > hopefully leading to an open surfing map. And want to check on what would > be appropriate. In an analogous

Re: [talk-au] Mapping surf breaks

2022-08-23 Thread Graeme Fitzpatrick
On Tue, 23 Aug 2022 at 18:18, Josh Marshall wrote: > tl;dr - I’m interested in getting more surfing-centric tagging into OSM, > hopefully leading to an open surfing map. > > Are there any concerns on me taking the idea and running with it? It would > be good at least to flesh out the wiki page

Re: [talk-au] Mapping surf breaks

2022-08-23 Thread Warin
On 23/8/22 18:15, Josh Marshall wrote: tl;dr - I’m interested in getting more surfing-centric tagging into OSM, hopefully leading to an open surfing map. And want to check on what would be appropriate. In an analogous way to how cycling is treated, along with trail running, my own sports of