[talk-au] Extracting Map data for Australian cities

2009-07-29 Thread Kamran Shafi
Hello guys, This is my first mail to this list. I have been trying to use osmosis to extract map data for different Australian cities, but osmosis is not working for me (I am on a windows machine). Any ideas what other options do I have? -- Regards Kamran ___

Re: [talk-au] ABS postcode boundaries

2009-07-29 Thread John Smith
Something else I've noticed, the postcode boundaries cover some areas that other boundaries don't and would have come in handy for doing sections of road and river that can't easily be done from low res sat imagery :) ___ Talk-au mailing list

Re: [talk-au] Nambour/Sunshine Coast Mapping Party

2009-07-29 Thread David Dean
Ash, I think I'll be going, and I can probably provide a lift. Anyone else in Brisbane interested in sharing a car up to Nambour for this? - David Ashley Kyd-2 wrote: > > I'm interested in attending and I'd love to carpool, because that's what > I do. Just thought I ought to get my expression

Re: [talk-au] Putting things into perspective...

2009-07-29 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 29/7/09, Jeff Price wrote: > Its > for this reason that I often ponder the realistic long term > coverage OSM can expect for Australia and other low density > locations.  There are just some many km's of stuff > to map that starting from a blank canvas for the majority of > towns out

Re: [talk-au] LCA2010

2009-07-29 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 29/7/09, Liz wrote: > 3. can people get together on this list and put together a > proposal in the > next 18 hours? You could probably skim from the SoTM09 slides, but not in that kind of time frame. ___ Talk-au mailing list Ta

Re: [talk-au] ABS postcode boundaries

2009-07-29 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 29/7/09, Andrew Laughton wrote: > I vote put it all in, marked with the source, and as better > data comes along it can be (re)moved and the source updated. Well I can fix the boundary up for one area from personal knowledge, others we'd have to pester auspost for better informat

Re: [talk-au] ABS post code areas

2009-07-29 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 29/7/09, Ben Kelley wrote: > I have seen a couple of places where you have put these. > Can you please put something like layer=-5, as otherwise > they cover up other layers in the town. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:layer Do not use this tag to correct some render behaviou

Re: [talk-au] Putting things into perspective...

2009-07-29 Thread Jeff Price
Its for this reason that I often ponder the realistic long term coverage OSM can expect for Australia and other low density locations. There are just some many km's of stuff to map that starting from a blank canvas for the majority of towns out there can be overwhelming, expensive(fuel), and no

Re: [talk-au] ABS postcode boundaries

2009-07-29 Thread Andrew Laughton
2009/7/29 John Smith > > --- On Wed, 29/7/09, Franc Carter wrote: > > > I've created a set of .osm files from the ABS postcode > > boundary data. Each > > .osm file is a way that encloses the postcode, so that you > > could use it to find the boundaries of that postcode. > > I know exactly the p

Re: [talk-au] LCA2010

2009-07-29 Thread Liz
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009, Hugh Barnes wrote: > Just thought I'd interrupt the twitter-like pace of this list lately > [1] and mention this. > > As I keep reading in feeds [2], linux.conf.au 2010 is on in Wellington > early next year. We've discussed before how "cool" it might be to put > up a paper, tut

Re: [talk-au] ABS post code areas

2009-07-29 Thread Ben Kelley
Hi. I have seen a couple of places where you have put these. Can you please put something like layer=-5, as otherwise they cover up other layers in the town. - Ben. 2009/7/29 John Smith > > I plan to tag landuse=residential polygons with town information, or try > to, things like is_in:countr

[talk-au] Putting things into perspective...

2009-07-29 Thread John Smith
I was watching the State of the Map Canadian talk and they point out how low the population density of Canada is, also the fact most of the population lives within about 100 miles of the US border. Australia has a lower population density but suffers the same fate when it comes to the majority

Re: [talk-au] ABS postcode boundaries

2009-07-29 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 29/7/09, Franc Carter wrote: > I've created a set of .osm files from the ABS postcode > boundary data. Each > .osm file is a way that encloses the postcode, so that you > could use it to find > the boundaries of that postcode. I know exactly the postcode boundaries of one postcode a

[talk-au] ABS postcode boundaries

2009-07-29 Thread Franc Carter
Hi all, I've created a set of .osm files from the ABS postcode boundary data. Each .osm file is a way that encloses the postcode, so that you could use it to find the boundaries of that postcode. John has kindley provided hosting for the files at:- http://maps.bigtincan.com/data/postcodes/ ch

Re: [talk-au] LCA2010

2009-07-29 Thread Hugh Barnes
On Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:53:47 +1000 James Livingston wrote: > On 29/07/2009, at 10:43 PM, Hugh Barnes wrote: > > I think OSM's profile in the FOSS community is a little dim. > > There have been quite a few posts on planet.gnome.org in the last > couple of months about integrating maps (mostly O

Re: [talk-au] LCA2010

2009-07-29 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 29/7/09, Hugh Barnes wrote: > As I keep reading in feeds [2], linux.conf.au 2010 is on in > Wellington > early next year. We've discussed before how "cool" it might Dunno how many on this list are in NZ, you might want to try the main talk list too. _

Re: [talk-au] LCA2010

2009-07-29 Thread James Livingston
On 29/07/2009, at 10:43 PM, Hugh Barnes wrote: > I think OSM's profile in the FOSS community is a little dim. There have been quite a few posts on planet.gnome.org in the last couple of months about integrating maps (mostly OSM via libchamplain) into Gnome applications. However we do need to g

[talk-au] LCA2010

2009-07-29 Thread Hugh Barnes
Hi Just thought I'd interrupt the twitter-like pace of this list lately [1] and mention this. As I keep reading in feeds [2], linux.conf.au 2010 is on in Wellington early next year. We've discussed before how "cool" it might be to put up a paper, tutorial or display there [3], if _only_ we could

Re: [talk-au] navit

2009-07-29 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 29/7/09, Mark Hetherington wrote: > I'm very interested in the Australia image. I'm curious how > it's being processed though, when I did the processing > myself I found searching in navit did not work. My > investigations to this point indicated I needed a patched > version of osm2

Re: [talk-au] navit

2009-07-29 Thread Mark Hetherington
Hi John, I'm very interested in the Australia image. I'm curious how it's being processed though, when I did the processing myself I found searching in navit did not work. My investigations to this point indicated I needed a patched version of osm2navit to put all nodes "in" Australia. Any spec

Re: [talk-au] ABS post code areas

2009-07-29 Thread Franc Carter
A tar file containing individually compressed .osm files is 83M. This seemed liked a sensible way to package it so that bits could be extracted, but I could package it differently if you like cheers On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Franc Carter wrote: > > Thanks, > > I'll find out how big they a

Re: [talk-au] ABS post code areas

2009-07-29 Thread Franc Carter
Thanks, I'll find out how big they are cheers On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:32 PM, John Smith wrote: > > > > --- On Wed, 29/7/09, Franc Carter wrote: > > > I more than happy to put the extract somewhere - I just > > need to find a place. I'll re-extract > > them all, compress them and see how big

Re: [talk-au] ABS post code areas

2009-07-29 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 29/7/09, Franc Carter wrote: > I more than happy to put the extract somewhere - I just > need to find a place. I'll re-extract > them all, compress them and see how big they are I have ample space on the virtual system I setup for the map stuff I'm screwing about with so happy to

[talk-au] Fwd: [Osmf-talk] OPENSTREETMAP FOUNDATION - NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING

2009-07-29 Thread Liz
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Re: [talk-au] ABS post code areas

2009-07-29 Thread Franc Carter
I more than happy to put the extract somewhere - I just need to find a place. I'll re-extract them all, compress them and see how big they are cheers On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:26 PM, John Smith wrote: > > --- On Wed, 29/7/09, Franc Carter wrote: > > > ways making up the suburb boundaries shoul

Re: [talk-au] ABS post code areas

2009-07-29 Thread John Smith
--- On Wed, 29/7/09, Franc Carter wrote: > ways making up the suburb boundaries should be included in > the postcode boundaries for these, > so I didn't add them. I pointed out in another email, indirectly, that town boundaries won't match postcode boundaries either. > A very low tech solutio

Re: [talk-au] ABS post code areas

2009-07-29 Thread Franc Carter
I did the import of the ABS suburb boundaries. When I did so I did some preliminary examination of the post code boundaries. Some post code boundaries were identical to a single suburb boundary. For those I also created a postcode relation that included the same ways as the suburb boundary relatio

Re: [talk-au] [OSM-talk] maxheight/height

2009-07-29 Thread Roy Wallace
On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Mark Williams wrote: > > Therefore maxheight is a property of the way going under the bridge, > possibly >1 way if the road is fragmented in OSM, and ought to be on the > whole road from where the sign is until after the bridge. Yup, that seems to be the consensus