Re: [talk-au] Tentative data source - Sunshine Coast Council

2009-08-26 Thread Stephen Hope
2009/8/26 Jeff Price jeff.pr...@rocketmail.com: The council are also interested in correcting errors in their own data given that today they are largely corrected via public complaints and subsequent site surveys. If someone has some wizzy ideas on how to determine the difference between the

[talk-au] Navteq mapping AU

2009-08-26 Thread Matt White
Probably been looking at the quality of the OSM data... http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/cartech/mapping-australia-one-road-at-a-time-20090825-extj.html ___ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] How to tag giant acorn?

2009-08-26 Thread Liz
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Cosmic Charade wrote: OSM however is stalling woefully on my humble 2GB Atom powered Ubuntu netbook. Has anyone had any success with JOSM on such a platform? yes, but I use debian and xfce as desktop. however the screen is so small you need to learn about fullscreen, the

Re: [talk-au] Navteq mapping AU

2009-08-26 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 26/8/09, 80n 80n...@gmail.com wrote: I've RTFA ;) They aren't going to do all rural and remote towns like this, just cities. If they do do all rural/remote towns it will cost a lot of money and take a lot of time and effort and I don't see a commercial justification for it. I

Re: [talk-au] Navteq mapping AU

2009-08-26 Thread James Livingston
On 26/08/2009, at 7:44 PM, John Smith wrote: One example given was do you search on google to rent a house, generally no one does, they use a specialist search engine that is built for rent listings. That reminds me of something I was wishing for a couple of months ago, trying to find a

Re: [talk-au] Navteq mapping AU

2009-08-26 Thread Evan Sebire
In Switzerland they have a site called http://www.search.ch even though most of it is only available in German or French, like the wikipedia or weather integration. The real-estate map is great but they have not been able to get all the local companies to use their service.

Re: [talk-au] Navteq mapping AU

2009-08-26 Thread Evan Sebire
Forgot to mention that if you hover over a public swimming pool it even gives you the water temperature, something very important in Switzerland ;-) On Wednesday 26 Aug 2009 13:14:43 Evan Sebire wrote: In Switzerland they have a site called http://www.search.ch even though most of it is

Re: [talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-talk] How to tag giant acorn?

2009-08-26 Thread Cosmic Charade
Liz wrote: On Wed, 26 Aug 2009, Cosmic Charade wrote: yes, but I use debian and xfce as desktop. however the screen is so small you need to learn about fullscreen, the keyboard shortcuts and see the optometrist as well I use Ubuntu with xfce so a similar setup but it runs like a dog on

Re: [talk-au] government-owned mapping company PSMA data

2009-08-26 Thread John Smith
--- On Thu, 27/8/09, Mike Smith mikesm...@dominoconsultant.org wrote: Has anybody explored the possibility of getting access to data from the Australian government owned mapping company PSMA? Link is here... http://www.psma.com.au/ I think most of us would be aware of PSMA, but I think any

[talk-au] Coastlines, was: Rivers

2009-08-26 Thread John Smith
Sorry to drag up this thread, but it's become relevant again. --- On Wed, 20/5/09, Ian Sergeant iserg...@hih.com.au wrote: There is some contention where the coastline ends, and where the river begins. From a practical stand point, coastlines are treated differently to other similar ways in